One has made proposals to simplify the procedure of customs operations for customs declaration and release of goods according to information presented by Kapital.kz Business Portal. 

The Working Group of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) on improvement of the Customs Code of the Customs Union (CU) will be created in the Advisory Board (AB) on the interaction EEC and the Belarus- Kazakhstan-Russian business community.

As indicated in the information of the Eurasian Economic Commission, the EEC Working Group on improvement of the Customs Code of CU will be managed by Vladimir Goshin, a member of the board of EEC.

In Moscow on Wednesday one held the second meeting of the Advisory Board for cooperation of EEC and business communities of three countries. 

According to the words of chairman of the AB, Victor Khristenko, it is important for EEC to launch a new phase of modernization of the customs legislation of CU, in order representatives of the business communities of three countries – members of the TC can actively speak out on the subject and offer their initiative.

“The Customs Code is often a unified and uniform document of management in the CU of EEC. It is clear that it contains a lot of blanket rules that, in effect, serve as derogation from a single unified regime. In this regard, we must pay special attention to it, because these moments can create artificial motifs, often of non-economic nature, to change the flows of goods,” Khristenko said.

In turn Mr. Goshin says that at the present time a package of amendments to the Customs Code of the Customs Union is in the process of internal coordination in the member states of the Customs Union.

“Thus, the first phase of work on completion of CC of CU is close to completion and we are on the threshold of a new stage of work on improving the legal framework for CU, which will lay the foundations of a unified regulatory framework of the CES and the prerequisites for the implementation of a significant breakthrough in improving customs administration in accordance with the best international practices. We have already placed on EEC our groundwork for the further codification of customs legislation of CU”, he stressed.

First Deputy Chairman of the National Economic Chamber of Kazakhstan “Union “Atameken”, Rahim Oshakbaev spoke in public with the proposals of Belarusian- Kazakh- Russian business community on key areas and phases of the modernization of customs legislation of the Customs Union. In particular, the proposals prepared by business communities of three countries concerned about issues of simplification of customs operations for customs declaration and release of goods, improvement of  legal basis of levying customs duties, clarification of customs procedures, as well as a number of other issues of a systemic nature.

Following the second meeting of the Advisory Board, one reached an agreement on participation of members of the Advisory Board on the interaction of EEC and the business community of the CU countries in the elaboration of common approaches for the development of the “Single window” in the member states of the Customs Union, which provides the opportunity to exchange and use of electronic permits for common customs territory of the Customs Union.

Eurasian Economic Commission was created by the decision of President of Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus in 2011 as the integrated permanent governing body of the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space (CES).

EEC has the status of a supranational authority control. The organization is not subordinated to any of the governments of three countries. Commission’s decisions are binding or the three countries. The main objective of EEC is to ensure conditions for functioning and development of the Customs Union and Common Economic Space, and elaboration of proposals for the further development of integration.

Source: Kapital.kz Business Portal.