Customs Information

According to Section 9, Movement of monetary instruments into and out of Kosovo (REGULATION NO. 2004/2 ON THE DETERRENCE OF MONEY LAUNDERING AND RELATED CRIMINAL OFFENCES) every person entering or leaving Kosovo and carrying monetary instruments of a value in excess of €10,000 shall declare the amount of the monetary instruments and the source of such monetary instruments in writing, in a format to be prescribed by the Director General of the UNMIK Customs Service, to an authorized customs officer, and, if so requested by the officer, shall present the monetary instruments. For the purposes of the present section, a person shall be considered to be carrying monetary instruments, if, inter alia, they are in the physical possession of such person or in a private vehicle or other conveyance being utilized by such person.

Every person sending from Kosovo to a place outside Kosovo, or receiving in Kosovo from a place outside Kosovo, via post or commercial courier, monetary instruments of a value in excess of €10,000, shall declare the amount of the monetary instruments and the source of such monetary instruments in writing, in a format to be prescribed by the Director General of the UNMIK Customs Service, to an authorized customs officer, and, if so requested by the officer, shall present the monetary instruments. The person may meet his or her reporting duty under the present paragraph by means of a notification of the contents of a parcel in a customs declaration or in international freight documentation.

Any person who fails to comply with the provisions of sections 9.1 or 9.2 commits a minor offence punishable by a fine of 25% of the amount of the undeclared monetary instruments.

A customs officer or a police officer may seize any monetary instruments carried by a person entering or leaving Kosovo, if there is a grounded suspicion that such monetary instruments are the proceeds of crime or were used or intended to be used to commit or facilitate money laundering or the predicate criminal offence from which the proceeds of crime were derived. Such customs officer or police officer shall notify the competent District Public Prosecutor within 48 hours of the seizure.

Customs Office contact phones: (038)-540-350; 541-030;541-031; 541-032;542-411 e-mail: hq@unmikcustoms.org

For more information on UNMIK Customs including limitations on traveler allowances, exemption and transfer of residence, please visit: http://www.unmikcustoms.org/