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13 Mar 2025 Implementing advanced digital solutions in customs authority activities discussed in Kazakhstan Ruslan Davydov, EEC Minister in charge of Customs Cooperation, paid a working visit to Astana, where he held meetings with the leadership of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan — Vice-Minister Erzhan Birzhanov and Chairman of the State Income Committee Zhandos Duisembiev. The negotiations covered a wide range of relevant matters in the field of customs regulation, including the implementation of the Agreement on Using Navigation Seals, approaches to modernizing customs checkpoints on the EAEU border, implementation of common processes, as well as prospects for developing customs regulation within the Union until 2045. The EEC Minister looked into the current status and prospects for the introduction of the new Keden information system in the activities of the Kazakhstan customs authorities, as well as the possibilities of its integration with the EAEU unified information system. The Keden information system will contribute not only to the introduction of electronic customs declaration, but also to preliminary information sharing, the creation of an integrated supervision system at checkpoints, as well as the automation of customs operations with documenting violations, which in turn will ensure transparency of customs administration. During the visit, Ruslan Davydov also visited the Situation Center at the Main Dispatch Department of the State Income Committee of the Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan. This is where the images from the inspection and screening complexes are analyzed and the process of customs inspections performed by customs officers is coordinated. The Center plays an important role in the efficient management and control of customs operations, ensuring a high degree of transparency and timeliness in the inspection and cargo handling processes.
10 Mar 2025 EEC discussed declaration of medicines The issue of declaring pharmaceutical substances, intermediates, reagents and materials for producing medicines imported into the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union was considered at a meeting of the working group on customs declaration under the specialized Advisory Committee of the Eurasian Economic Commission. The meeting was held at the EEC's headquarters under the chairmanship of Grigor Oganyan, Deputy Director of the EEC Department for Customs Legislation and Law Enforcement Practice. In particular, in order to automate and control movements of such goods, it is proposed to indicate coded information voluntarily, to optimize its processing and subsequent use.    The Working Group on Customs Declaration was established in 2022 by decision of the Advisory Committee on Customs Regulation. Its areas of expertise include declaration of goods, including the form of and procedure for filling in a release request prior to submitting a customs declaration.
28 Feb 2025 Commission working to simplify procedure for amending declarations Making amendments to a declaration for goods before and after their release was considered at a regular meeting of the working group on customs declaring procedures under the specialized Advisory Committee of the Eurasian Economic Commission. In particular, the meeting touched upon such areas as reducing the number of documents required when foreign trade participants initiate changes to their declarations, recognizing the priority of electronic declaration adjustment and specifying the cases for using paper documents, as well as the possibility of sending the decision of the customs authority in electronic form. The procedure for making amendments to declarations for goods is approved by Decision No. 289 of the Customs Union Commission dated December 10, 2013. The establishment of a working group on customs declaring procedures under the Advisory Committee on Customs Regulation was approved at the 54th meeting of the EEC Advisory Committee on Customs Regulation.
12 Feb 2025 EEC develops customs cooperation with UN Economic Commission for Europe On the sidelines of the 87th session of the Inland Transport Committee of the UN Economic Commission for Europe, Ruslan Davydov, EEC Minister in charge of Customs Cooperation, held a working meeting with Tatiana Molchan, UNECE Executive Secretary, to discuss customs cooperation issues.The parties exchanged views on the development of transport corridors, customs transit and arrangement of checkpoints. The importance of introducing the single window mechanism as a tool to increase the efficiency of foreign economic activity and optimize the costs of foreign trade participants was also noted. The meeting resulted in agreements to deepen cooperation between the Eurasian Economic Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, including within the framework of the Memorandum of Cooperation, which has been in force since 2013.
11 Feb 2025 Ruslan Davydov presented promising areas of EAEU customs regulation in Geneva The 87th session of the Inland Transport Committee of the UN Economic Commission for Europe discussed key aspects related to the acceleration and facilitation of border crossing, as well as the development and harmonization of customs procedures. The Geneva event was attended by Ruslan Davydov, Minister in charge of Customs Cooperation of the Eurasian Economic Commission, who also participated in the Ministerial Conference themed Successes and Challenges for Inland Transport on the Road to 2030. Ruslan Davydov spoke about the experience and promising projects being implemented in the Eurasian Economic Union to facilitate border crossing and develop transit potential. He presented the Agreement on a unified system of customs transit, signed by the leaders of the EAEU Member States on December 26, 2024, noting that countries that are not members of the Eurasian Five can join the Agreement, too.  "The document provisions envisage the use of a unified electronic transit declaration for transportation through the territory of all the member countries, which will significantly reduce the time and financial costs for foreign trader operators," Ruslan Davydov told. The head of the Customs Unit of the Commission paid special attention to the introduction of navigation seals in the EAEU and the development of the institution of surety, which is an efficient tool for financial guarantees in transit transportation. Emphasis was also placed on the work being carried out in the EAEU to create uniform requirements for the construction of border crossing points and best practices for the introduction of digital technologies at them. "The core element of a border crossing point should be its unified information system, which will integrate breakthrough technologies based on the use of the Internet of Things, big data and artificial intelligence," Ruslan Davydov noted. "This will help speed up the passage of goods, transport organizations and natural persons across the EAEU border while improving the efficiency and effectiveness of state control."
29 Jan 2025 Valentina Nagovitsyna appointed Director of EEC Department for Customs Legislation and Law Enforcement Practice Valentina Nagovitsyna was born in Postavy, Vitebsk region (Republic of Belarus). In 1990, she graduated from the S.M. Kirov Vitebsk State Pedagogical Institute specializing as a teacher of mathematics, computer science and computer engineering; in 2004, she graduated from the Institute of National Security of the Republic of Belarus as a specialist in customs affairs. She began her career in 1990 as a software engineer at the Department of Informatics and Computer Science of the S.M. Kirov Vitebsk State Pedagogical Institute. In 1999–2016, she held various positions in Vitebsk Customs: from an inspector of the customs statistics department to the head of the customs payments department. In 2016–2025, she worked as Deputy Head of the Department of Tariff Regulation and Customs Payments and Deputy Head of the Main Department of Tariff and Non-Tariff Regulation of the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Belarus in Minsk. Since January 24, 2025, she was appointed Deputy Director of the Department for Customs Legislation and Law Enforcement Practice of the Eurasian Economic Commission.
27 Jan 2025 Passenger customs declaration for express cargo to be applied to larger nomenclature of goods On January 27, the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission amended the passenger customs declaration for express cargo, expanding the possibilities of its application. "The previously existing restriction to apply the declaration in respect of indivisible goods has been eliminated due to the current absence of such a concept in the law of the Eurasian Economic Union," said Ruslan Davydov, EEC Minister in charge of Customs Cooperation. The approved amendments are also aimed at further unifying the procedure for declaring information. In particular, information on the placement of goods for temporary storage will have to be indicated in all EAEU states, whereas now — so far — only in three countries of the Union. Decision No. 158 of the EEC Board dated October 16, 2018 approved the form and procedure for filling in the passenger customs declaration for express cargo, which is used in the customs declaration of goods for personal use transported by express carriers.
24 Jan 2025 Commission discussed simplification of filling out certain boxes of declarations for goods A meeting of the working group on customs declaring procedure at the relevant EEC Advisory Committee was held under the chairmanship of Grigor Ohanyan, Deputy Director of the Eurasian Economic Commission's Department for Customs Legislation and Law Enforcement Practice. A number of issues were considered, including those initiated by the business community. The discussion focused on simplifying the declaration for goods, including the possibility of omitting information on the previous customs procedure and the previous document, as well as on transport means in certain cases when exporting goods. The experts generally endorsed the proposals to optimize the rules for specifying container information to ensure selectivity of customs control, their automatic processing and minimization of goods inspection cases. The Procedure for filling out the declaration for goods was approved by Decision No. 257 of the Customs Union's Commission dated May 20, 2010. The Working Group on customs declaring procedure was established by the decision of the EEC Advisory Committee on Customs Regulation.
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