Parliament Ratifies Agreement on EurAsEC Customs Services' Work

09.04.2010 13:46
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April 9, the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus ratified, at the meeting of the fourth session, two agreements on information work of customs services of EurAsEC member-countries. According to the deputy, Vitaly Busko, these documents continue to form the complex of normative legal framework for the Customs Union functioning.

«The deputies agreed with the necessity to ratify the agreement on common principles of information exchange and common approaches to the use of information technology in customs services’ activity of EurAsEC member states», the parliamentarian said, BelTA informs.

 Vitaly Busko underlined that both agreements will be in force in all countries of Eurasian Economic Community (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan), and not only within the Customs Union of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan.

«The agreement on common principles of information exchange provides a complex of organizational and technical measures for the mutual exchange of information on customs procedures and control. The composition, size, structure of transmitted information, as well as regulation of its transfer is being reconciled by customs services on bilateral and multilateral basis», the MP said.

According to Vitaly Busko, the signing of this agreement «will create conditions for the formation of the unified automated system of customs goods and vehicles through the territories of EurAsEC countries».

The MPs have also ratified agreement with Turkmenistan on international car transport

Also during the meeting of the spring fourth session of the parliament, the deputies ratified an agreement between the governments of Belarus and Turkmenistan «on international road passenger and freight transport».

«The agreement regulates the international transport between the two countries, as well as transit through their territory and transportation to/from third countries», First Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications, Nikolai Verkhovets, said at the meeting.

According to the official, the document also regulates the possibility of private car trips to Belarus from Turkmenistan and in the opposite direction. «The adoption of the agreement will not only allow to widen and deepen the ties between the countries, but create the best conditions for the activization of mutually beneficial exchange of goods, services and ideas on the Belarusian-Turkmen direction,» believe in the ministry.

Moreover, the deputies also ratified another agreement between Belarus and Turkmenistan «on cooperation and mutual assistance in customs issues». «The need for adoption of the agreement is connected with trade increase between the two countries», deputy chairman of the State Customs Committee, Sergei Borisyuk, said at the meeting.

According to deputy chairman, Belarus signed similar agreements with 14 states, and this year also plans «to sign an international document on cooperation with customs services of Libya».

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