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Belarus and Russia go on with single customs space formation

The important direction in the Union State foundation is single customs space formation, safeguarding of reliable customs supervision on Union State external boundaries and goods and vehicles free travel on the territory of Union State.

The important direction in the Union State foundation is single customs space formation, safeguarding of reliable customs supervision on Union State external boundaries and goods and vehicles free travel on the territory of Union State.

As it was reported in Permanent Committee for these aims the Programm of creation of Single automate information system of Union State Customs committee is being implemented. It will help Belarusian and Russian custom authorities to share necessary information on-line and realize it within the scopes of common customs space. The first stage of the Programm was realized during 2003-2006. Currently the second stage of Union State Customs committee Single automate information system creation is being realized – Union State programm “Realization of common customs process information technologies on the territories of member states of Union State for 2007-2010”.

Successful cooperation is practiced between the customs agencies of Belarus and Russia within the scopes of Union State field body –Customs committee. During the three years of Customs committee work the package have been worked out and being implemented to provide common control over customs services, unification of customs legislation and customs clearance procedures and organization of safe customs control on external boundaries.

In Customs committee the Board has been created the meetings of which are held on regular basis. Thus during the first six months of 2008 two meetings of the Board have been held in the coarse of which the parties discussed and made decisions on 25 issues concerning bilateral cooperation in customs sphere, was pointed out in Permanent Committee.

Apart from that in 2007 the realization of Programm for priority development of customs infrastructure of customs clearance stations on the territory of Belarus was completed. As a result construction works have been carried out on 8 international road customs clearance stations on Belarusian territory that allowed providing their compliance with international standards, increasing traffic capacity almost by 20 thousand vehicles a day and shortening the customs technicalities time on external boundaries of Union State without prejudice to the quality and safety of customs control.

At present the parties are working out the proposals for the new union programm the activities of which are also aimed at further provision of the necessary facilities for customs infrastructure.