The Customs Service intends to launch and promote a new strategy for implementing the Electronic Customs that is aimed at reducing the clearance time. In case of the green corridor, the clearance will last for 7-10 minutes. Now this procedure takes longer, IPN reports.
It is also suggested that the certificates issued by the National Food Safety Agency, which are presented at customs, should be in electronic format. The certificates are now issued on paper, after the goods are examined at one of the country’s laboratories.
The ‘common front office’ principle will be implemented in the information system Asycuda World, while the licenses, permits and certificates will be monitored by electronic interaction between the issuing authorities and the customs body.
The strategy was worked out in the context of the modernization of the Customs Service, in accordance with the strategic institutional objectives and in correlation with the objectives stipulated in the SAFE Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade that were approved by the World Trade Organization in 2005 and implemented by Moldova since 2006.
