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EEC Council extended implementation period of Belarus-Russia experiment on navigation seals until July 1, 2024
It has been eight months of conducting a successful experiment to use navigation seals on timber and woodworking products placed under the export customs procedure in the Republic of Belarus and departing the territory of the Russian Federation. The experiment started on February 13, 2023. During that period, navigation seals were applied to more than 400 shipments of the specified products. The interim experiment results were already reviewed at the Eurasian Economic Commission's Council in the spring of 2023, when it was decided to extend the experiment until the end of this year.
In addition, the practical experience gained during the experiment was taken into account in preparing the Commission’s regulations necessary to begin the implementation of the Agreement on Using Navigation Seals for Monitoring Transportation in the Eurasian Economic Union dated April 19, 2022.
The Agreement is aimed at ensuring legal trade turnover in the EAEU via increased use of modern technical and technological solutions in arranging transportation in the Union's territory and at minimized application of customs and other types of state control measures with regard to shipment of goods (in transit, export and mutual trade).
As businesses are interested in continuing the said experiment, today the Commission's Council reached an agreement to extend it until July 1, 2024.
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The experiment is carried out in accordance with Disposition No. 29 of the EEC Council dated October 17, 2022. Its implementation was initiated by the Belarusian side in order to address an additional opportunity to ensure the possibility of exporting timber placed under the customs export procedure from the territory of Russia through checkpoints not specified in the resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation dated July 15, 2010 and December 30, 2011, as well as in order to prepare parties and participants in foreign trade activities for the practical implementation of the Agreement on Using Navigation Seals in the EAEU for Monitoring Transportation of Goods Across the Territories of Two or More Union States.
