ATLAS (Automatisiertes Tarif- und lokales Zollabwicklungssystem) is an IT-based procedure of the German customs administration. With this system, cross-border trade is automatically registered, cleared and monitored.ATLAS simplifies and accelerates the customs procedures, which helps the On Board Couriers of airmates as well. The electronic procedure saves a lot of official correspondence and therefore time. ATLAS was introduced in 2009, since then all export declarations must be done with this system. For import declarations it is mandatory since 2016.