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AEO status for your subsidiary in Morocco

  • Your group, or your customers, expect the Moroccan subsidiary to hold Authorised Economic Operator status, granted by Moroccan customs.
  • The status is examined on site, in Morocco, on the subsidiary's own procedures: a group certification does not replace it.
  • We work on site with the subsidiary's teams and report to headquarters in English or in French.

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Tell us the subsidiary's activity, the status the group expects and your timeline. We will tell you what a first diagnostic would cover.

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Subject: [Douane] AEO for a Moroccan subsidiary: company name
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Morocco runs its own Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) programme, managed by the Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration (ADII). A subsidiary established in Morocco applies in its own name, and the ADII examines its own organisation.

Three statuses

  • Customs simplifications. The most common status: 486 of the 539 companies on the list of authorised operators published by the ADII hold it. It is granted by category; only category “A” gives access to the security status.
  • Security and safety. The rarest status, held by 14 companies on the list. It follows the World Customs Organization SAFE Framework of Standards, which Moroccan customs joined in 2005. The application includes a mandatory self assessment covering thirteen areas, from physical security of the sites to IT security and financial solvency.
  • Joint categorisation with the tax administration. Held by 39 companies on the list. Customs and the Directorate General of Taxes (DGI) examine the company together, including the consistency between what it declares to each of them.

What headquarters should know

  • The examination is local. The auditors look at how the subsidiary actually produces its declarations and secures its flows, and they check it on site. Group policies help only when they are applied and documented in Morocco.
  • Existing certifications count. ISO 9001, 14001, 28001 or 17712 certificates held by the subsidiary are taken into account in the security audit.
  • Several departments are involved. Logistics, purchasing, accounting, IT and quality are questioned, not only the customs team.
  • The status is renewed. Certificates are valid for three years, and renewal requires an updated self assessment and a new audit.
  • The decision belongs to the administration. No firm can guarantee it. We commit to a complete file and to an organisation that matches what it describes.

How we work

  1. Diagnostic. We compare the subsidiary’s procedures with the approval criteria and deliver a report that ranks the gaps, from blocking to minor. The diagnostic is a service in its own right, undertaken on a written proposal.
  2. Upgrade. We bring customs, accounting and logistics procedures to the required level with the local teams.
  3. Application. We prepare the file with the subsidiary, which submits it in its own name. We stay alongside it through the review and the on site audit.

Our detailed pages on each status are in French: customs simplifications, security and safety, joint categorisation.

Sources: list of authorised operators published by the ADII, read in 2026 (figures change with each update); ADII circular no. 5517/313 of 17 February 2015; joint ADII and DGI circular of 16 September 2015.