On
December 25, Infrastructure Minister Andrii Pyvovarsky has
signed a memorandum on cooperation in information technologies with the State
Fiscal Service of Ukraine. Roman Nasirov put
his signature on the document from the SFS’s side.
In
the framework of cooperation, the sides will improve the technological
processes of cargo handling, in particular, they will establish an
exchange between information systems of the departments and eliminate
duplication of information supplied by a marine agent on goods transported in
containers. In the first phase, the
facilitation of customs clearance of goods will affect the internal and
external transit. The next stage provides the application of the same
rules for imports.
"If
earlier customs officials started the clearance procedure, which could last for
several days, when the ship came into port, then now we intend to reduce the
time for such procedure to a zero. This means the formalities to take place before the ship's arrival in port. For
products with no risks, business will be able to get all the permissions of the
customs office at once, also before the arrival of the ship in port," said AndriiPyvovarsky during
a briefing at the Government House.
According
to Roman Nasirov, customs officials will evaluate potential risks as to
the goods crossing the border of Ukraine by using the automatic analysis system
of risk management as well as soft and information complex WCO CTS, developed
by the World Customs Organization (WCO). An agreement with the WCO on collection, storage and exchange of
information on cargo (WCO CTS) was signed in July.
The implementation of the memorandum envisages amendments
to several legal acts. It is expected
that business will be able to use the new procedure in Q1 of 2016.
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