The 45th meeting of the Joint Board of Customs Services of the EAEU Member States took place in Minsk

        On March 1, the 45th meeting of the Joint Board of Customs Services of the Member States of the Eurasian Economic Union (JBCS EAEU) was held in Minsk (Republic of Belarus).

       Chairman of the State Revenue Committee Zhandos Duisembiev took part in the meeting.

       The JBCS discussed the law enforcement practice of customs authorities of the EAEU member states, which is necessary to unify approaches to customs administration issues.

       In order to ensure a uniform classification of goods, following the meeting, a number of decisions were made on the classification of individual goods in accordance with the unified Commodity Nomenclature for Foreign Economic Activity of the Eurasian Economic Union.

       Issues related to strengthening requirements for copyright holders and (or) their representatives when including intellectual property objects in customs registers, legal regulation of the period for making a decision of the customs authority on making changes (additions) to the information declared in the declaration for goods after the release of goods in member states of the Eurasian Economic Union, storing documents necessary for customs control on paper, as well as approving the List of tax-intensive goods to establish uniform approaches to risk management in the area of customs value control were also considered.

      The meeting was attended by the first heads of customs services of Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Russia, as well as representatives of the Eurasian Economic Commission.

     The main activities of the JBCS EAEU are identifying priority areas in the field of customs, promoting the convergence and harmonization of customs legislation, coordinating the practical interaction of customs and other interested national services and departments of states, facilitating the implementation of adopted interstate and intergovernmental decisions in the field of customs.