Government Meeting.
Government Meeting
From Dmitry Medvedev’s opening remarks:
I have signed a directive designed to further simplify customs procedures. We have a roadmap to improve customs administration. It will be expanded with a number of new measures, about 15 in all.
We are interested in more simple and expeditious clearance procedures at seaports (this is also the goal of the plan that has been adopted) to see that processing costs do not exceed comparable costs at ports in other countries. Unfortunately, today this is far from the case everywhere. Operating costs and transport tariffs are rising. So we need to reorganise the oversight agencies, above all, the customs service. Transit operations servicing should become more state-of-the-art and convenient, and should include digital declarations.
An update of the roadmap was necessary, and so it has been adopted. Decisions on these issues at the government level and the relevant agencies are to be made before the end of the year.
