Declare your cash in the EU

Planning to travel through the EU? According to recent UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office advice updates, new regulations for declaring cash came into effect on June 15, 2007. Anyone entering or leaving the EU must now declare the money they carry when the amount exceeds 10 000 euros. This amount includes all cash, cheques, traveller’s cheques and money orders.

The exception to the rules? You will not need to declare your cash if you are:

• travelling within the EU.
• travelling via the EU to a non-EU country (when the original journey started outside of the EU).