The roadmap, Improving Customs Administration, is designed to simplify the procedure governing the movement of goods and vehicles at seaports and to improve the investment climate.
The document was drafted by the Ministry of Transport.
The development of a roadmap to improve the transport situation at seaports (hereinafter referred to as the roadmap) is stipulated by Clause 19 of the action plan (roadmap), Improving Customs Administration, approved by Government Directive No. 1125-r of 29 June 2012.
The approved roadmap aims to simplify the procedure governing the movement of goods and vehicles at seaports and to improve the investment climate.
The roadmap provides for:
- synchronising the working hours of the checkpoints, customs offices and business entities operating at seaports;
- ensuring technical readiness for interagency cooperation and data exchange between state control bodies and participants in foreign economic activity;
- introducing a one stop shop system;
- transitioning to the use of electronic documents;
- harmonising documents and unifying data submitted to state control bodies;
- introducing a risk management system when administering veterinary, quarantine phytosanitary and sanitary quarantine control;
- 100% provision of the declarant with information about the possibility of releasing goods into free circulation, provided that they are declared before the vessel has completed unloading;
- granting state control bodies with the right to make decisions on allowing vessels to start unloading of goods before arrival at a seaport;
- amending the procedural regulations at state border checkpoints to reduce the time it takes to issue permits for vehicles to enter a marine checkpoint for cargo transshipment.
