Travelling with cash and/or equivalent assets

You have to give notification to Swedish Customs if you are carrying the equivalent of EUR 10,000 or more in cash or equivalent assets when travelling across an EU border.

To prevent money laundering and organised crime, and fight terrorism, you are obliged to give notification when carrying the equivalent of EUR 10,000 or more in cash or equivalent assets when travelling across an EU border. Please note that some EU countries apply the notification duty even when travelling within the EU. Always verify what rules apply for your destination.

Besides notes and coins, “cash and equivalent assets” is also defined as traveller’s cheques, cheques, promissory notes, debt instruments, debentures, shares, money orders and securities.

Giving notification

You give notification to the responsible authority in either the first EU country you enter or the final EU country you exit. In Sweden, the responsible authority is Swedish Customs. You can give notification via the internet or on a form.

Give notification using a form

Obtain a form in a surveillance area, at a customs office or here on the website. When you arrive in Sweden, you must choose the red lane (“Goods to declare”) in the surveillance area and submit the completed form to Swedish Customs.

When you are travelling out of Sweden, you must submit the form to Swedish Customs at, for example, a customs clearance office at the border or at a so-called red point in the airport.

Cash declaration Pdf, 432.1 kB.

Cash declaration – additional sheet Pdf, 161.4 kB.

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Cash and/or equivalent assets