State Customs Committee

of the Republic of Belarus

The transit attractiveness of the Republic of Belarus.

Cooperation with the countries of the Baltic region.

Reporter: Mr. Andrei Shashkov,

State Customs Committee of the Republic of Belarus

Customs border of the Republic of Belarus

Transport corridors

Russian

Federation

Ukraine

Poland

Lithuania

Latvia

170 km

679 km

398 km

1084 km

1234 km

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Structure of the Customs bodies

State Customs

Committee

Republican unitary enterprise

«Beltamozhservice»

Institute for Advanced

training

Stuff of the customs service – about 5000 officers

Brest Custom House

Vitebsk Custom House

Gomel Custom House

Minsk Regional

Custom House

Custom House

«Minsk-2»

Minsk Central

Custom House Mogilev Custom House

Oshmyany Custom

House

Grodno Regional

Custom House

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Modernization of the Customs Service

Ensuring collection of customs duties in due volume

Ensuring favorable environment for business community

Fight against smuggling, promoting creation of favorable

competitive environment for participants of foreign

economic activity

Compliance with international customs standards

High level of performance efficiency while optimizing

expenses on support of activities

Development objectives of the Customs Service

of the Republic of Belarus in 2011–2015

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State Customs Committee of the Republic of Belarus

SAFE Framework of Standards

to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade

of the World Customs Organization

International Convention on Simplification and

Harmonization of Customs Procedures –

Kyoto Convention

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Institute of Authorized economic

operator

till 1 July 2010 Institute of Fair participant of foreign

economic activity

beginning 1 July 2010

delivery of goods under the customs control without guarantee for payment

of customs duties

simplified performance of customs

operations

storage of goods on the AEO’s warehouses

involvement of goods in economic turnover before presenting the customs

declaration and payment of customs duties

independent use of sealing devices in order to identify the goods and

transport vehicles

priority granted while transporting the goods across the customs border

Customs-to-Business Partnership

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Kyoto Convention

The Republic of Belarus became the 72nd Contracting

Party to the International Convention on Simplification

and Harmonization of Customs Procedures

(Kyoto Convention)

The Convention is a model for effective and modern

customs procedures addressing the up-to-date

challenges. The Convention has entered into force for

the Republic of Belarus since 10th April 2011

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System of preSystem of pre--arrival / preliminary informationarrival / preliminary information

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System of electronic declaration

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System of electronic data processing

New computerized systems

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System of electronic declaration

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Internet

National computerized system

of electronic declaration

Electronic customs

documents

Customs office

Declarant

Customs declaring in

writing

Electronic license

Integrated database

of issued licenses on

import and (or)

export of goods

Information confirming that the goods have

actually left the territory of the Customs Union

Subsystems and databases of Integrated

computerized information system

of the customs bodies

Data processing centre

of the customs bodies

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Automatic registration of statistics declarations

Statistics e-declarations (SED) – 100%

Implementation of all without exception customs procedures in the e-declaration system

export e-declarations on goods – 96%

import e-declarations on goods – 89%

E- declaration system (EDS):

A platform for Customs-Business relationships

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Customs

Authority officials

(SED registration)

SED

Декларант

EDS SED

Digital signature control, format-

logical and other forms of control

declarant

SED registration

Information

Center of

Customs

Authorities

E- declaration system Automatic registration of statistics declarations

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E-declaration

on goods

Декларант

Ведомство

EDS E-declaration

on goods

Information

Center

declarant

Clearance Custom House : -Assignment of registration

number to goods declarations;

-release of goods

Assignment of registration

number to goods declaration Digital signature control, format-

logical and other forms of control

E- declaration system Automatic registration of goods declaration Project

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Significant reduction of time needed to register the statistics and goods declarations

Introduction of application principle elements

Transparency of the registration process, automatic and promptly informing of economic operators about this process have been ensured

Limitation of human factor and corruption phenomena

The results of Automatic registration of statistics

declarations and Automatic registration of goods

declaration Projects:

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Заинтересован

ное лицо

Заинтересован

ное лицо

Data

base

Computerized

control of data

Pre-arrival informing

Minsk Central

Custom House

Customs

clearance point

Identification

number of the

consignment

The person

concerned

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Passing the control services at the check point

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Border control

Quarantine control

Vehicle control

Phytosanitary

control

Veterinary

control

Customs

control

1. Increase in managing the control processes at the border and

the efficiency of such control

2. Reduction of time needed to process the control operations

at the check point and expediting of the State border crossing

3. Reduction of costs related to export-import operations.

The effect of introduction of the “two services at the border” principle

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Risk profile occurs

Performance

of customs

operations

auto-detection of a risk profile in software

detection of a risk profile by an officer performing customs operations

Risk management and analysis system

При совершении таможенных операций

уполномоченным должностным лицом может

быть принято решение о проведении

дополнительных операций таможенного

контроля в следующих случаях:

While performing customs operations the

authorized officer is empowered, where

necessary, to perform extra operations of

customs control in case when:

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X-Ray Scanning System

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• A single form of the transit declaration, harmonized with the corresponding document of the European Union

• As a transit declaration is possible to use the transport documents, the package of documents required by the Convention on international road transport and temporary import of goods, documents of the Universal Postal Union.

• When crossing the Belarusian-Russian and Russian-Kazakh border carrier is not faced with the need to pass customs control and to issue national transit declaration

Transit and Logistic

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Republican customs clearance points – 61,

including:

road – 24;

railway – 16;

at airports – 7;

at simplified crossing points – 3;

at transfer railway stations – 9;

at river ports – 3.

Customs clearance points

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Bandwidth road border check points of

the Republic of Belarus

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Border check point “Kotlovka”

The capacity has increased

from 300 till 1 000 vehicles / day

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The capacity has increased

from 400 till 1 000 vehicles / day

Border check point “Beniakoni”

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The capacity – 2 250 vehicles/day

Border check point “Domachevo”

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Cargo terminal of

border check point “Kozlovichy”

The capacity has increased

from 2 000 till 4 000 vehicles/day

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The capacity - 270 vehicles/day

Border check point “Grigorovschina” before reconstruction

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Draft project construction border check point “Grigorovschina”

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Projected capacity after reconstruction –

1000 vehicles/day

Draft project construction border check point “Privalka”

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Projected capacity after reconstruction –

1000 vehicles/day

Construction of the border check point “Privalka”

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5 TLC built and opened

2 TLC will be built

Republican Unitary Enterprise

"Beltamozhservice"

Transport and logistics centers

«Beltamozhservice» provides a full range of services in the field of customs, freight forwarding, warehousing and information logistics

Customs logistics

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THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION

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