Customs Union Commission looks into SES legal framework

MOSCOW. April 8. KAZINFORM The issues of the single customs territory and the formation of the legal framework for the Single Economic Space (SES) within the EurAsEC were considered in a session of the Customs Union Commission of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan in Moscow on 7 April, BelTA learnt from the press-service of the commission.

According to BelTA, the commission approved the draft agenda of a session of the EurAsEC Interstate Council (the Customs Union supreme body) scheduled for 19 April in Minsk. The session is expected to introduce into effect an array of international agreements that form the legal framework of the Customs Union: the protocol for unified regulations to define the customs cost of the goods crossing the Customs Union border, of 12 December 2008; the protocol of 21 may 2010 to amend the Customs Union agreement of the sanitary measures of 11 December 2009; the protocol of 21 May 2010 to amend the Customs Union agreement of the hygiene and sanitary measures of 11 December 2009; the protocol of 21 May 2010 to amend the Customs Union agreement on phyto-sanitary control of 11 December 2009; the agreements on unified principles and regulations of technical regulations in the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation of 18 November 2010.

The session was focused on the application of the algorithm of deduction and distribution of import customs duties in September 2010-February 2011 as well as the distribution of special safeguard and anti-dumping measures on the single customs territory of the Customs Union in relation to third countries. The members of the commission approved the protocol on introducing amendments and additions to the agreement on the application of special safeguard, anti-dumping and countervailing measures in relation to third countries of 25 January 2008.

A set of legal instruments of the Customs Union Commission has been approved. Among them is a new wording of the single list of products subject to mandatory verification of conformity. Besides, the commission looked into the issues concerning amendments to the unified sanitary, epidemiological and hygiene requirements to the goods that are subject to sanitary and epidemiological surveillance. The commission also approved the single conformity mark for goods on the Customs Union market.

The members of the commission considered several issues of customs administration, customs, tariff and non-tariff regulations.

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