Originally Posted by
WorldLux
The regulations aims to hinder passengers from avoiding duties, by entering the Schengen area claiming to declare at their final destination and declaring at their final destination that they bought it within the Schengen area or giving their goods to other passenger, etc... .
I don't quite see how those regulations (which I have never seen enforced) hinder such a thing, nothing prevents me from moving stuff from my carry-on luggage to my checked baggage (and v.v) before leaving customs, I even do it quite often in the form of putting my duty-free shopping into my checked luggage, or getting my jacket out or what ever the case may be.
There is also nothing preventing you from handing over goods to other passengers before entering Schengen (instead of before heading out of customs in your destinations), and actually there is nothing illegal in that.