ASTANA. March 2. KAZINFORM /Kanat Kulshmanov/ The Commission of the Customs Union took key decisions on amendments to the Customs Code.

First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov has announced it at the meeting with Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov.

"We with Umirzak Shukeyev (First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan) work within the framework of the Commission of the Customs Union, at which key decisions on amendments to the Customs Code were taken, and aligned positions that satisfy the three countries", I.Shuvalov said.

"We agreed that by April 10, 2010 the domestic procedures should be completed for ratification achievement", the First Deputy Chairman of the Russian Government noted.

According to him, Kazakhstan, Russian and Belarus agreed on a very complicated issue -distribution of funds derived from import duties.