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The document was drafted by the Ministry of Economic Development pursuant to Paragraph 1, Section IV of Minutes No. DM-P13-33pr of the June 11, 2013 meeting chaired by the Prime Minister.
The directive revises the roadmap Improving Customs Administration approved by Government Directive No. 1125-r of June 29, 2012.
The roadmap is designed to simplify the procedure governing the movement of goods and vehicles across the customs border of the Customs Union as they are imported into the Russian Federation or exported from it. The roadmap provides for implementation by 2018 of policies to improve, simplify, accelerate and increase the transparency of customs operations and procedures, and to reduce costs incurred by participants in foreign trade. At the same time, the efficiency of customs control will be improved with the help of modern information technologies and by refocusing customs control on the phase following the release of the goods.
The performance indicators included in the Doing Business ranking, released annually by the World Bank, are used to measure progress under the roadmap. The target is to move Russia into the top 20 countries.
The revised roadmap includes newly added activities, clarifies the expected results of activities to ensure measurability, and indicates the types of legal acts that are required to carry out such activities.
In particular, the roadmap has been supplemented with measures regarding the use of preliminary information by government bodies exercising state control at border crossing points and the installation of software and hardware necessary to use such information.
Steps have been planned to improve interdepartmental cooperation. In 2014, the transition to electronic veterinary certification in trade with countries outside the Customs Union will take place and automated devices will be created to check veterinary control documents for goods imported and exported to and from the customs territory of the Customs Union.
The measures taken under the roadmap will help improve the investment climate in the Russian Federation.