Federal Office for Customs and Border Security FOCBS

The Federal Office for Customs and Border Security provides comprehensive security at the border – for the benefit of the public, the business community and the state. Would you like to know what we have achieved in the past year? Here you will find everything from species protection to customs clearance and the respective figures.

The Swiss Customs Museum in Cantine di Gandria is idyllically located on Lake Lugano, right on the border with Italy. Far from the hustle and bustle of the city, it showcases the diverse duties of customs officers past and present. The museum can be reached via a hiking trail or comfortably by scheduled boat service and is open during the summer season.

The electronic vignette can be purchased through the Via Portal of the Federal Office for Customs and Border Security. It's advised to beware of online fraud and acquire the vignette only through official channels. The validity of the e-vignette begins upon purchase and matches that of the adhesive vignette.

Passar is the FOCBS's new goods traffic system for the digital processing of customs procedures. Since June 2023, Passar has been gradually introduced and replaces the freight applications NCTS and e-dec.

Citizens have recently been receiving growing numbers of messages that supposedly originate from the Federal Office for Customs and Border Security. The Federal Office for Customs and Border Security is issuing a warning concerning these messages and recommends ignoring them and deleting them.