The new Customs Code will enter into force on January 1, 2024 and will simplify customs procedures. It will provide more concessions in trade, in the interaction between the business community and the customs authority and will exclude corruption risks. Statements to this effect were made by participants in an information event held by the Customs Service, IPN reports.
Fewer and more simplified declarations, online access to more details on the relationship between the economic agent and the customs authority - all these are covered by the new Customs Code and come to support economic agents and facilitate their work.
“Documents, applications can be created in the information system. The dataset is aligned with the data groups that are defined at decision system level. The dataset is identical to the dataset that is used by any economic operator in the EU. The exact set of data that is required in the EU is also requested by the Customs Service. Likewise, if the economic operator requests a certain dataset in the European Union, it will obtain exactly the same dataset. Applications may be submitted directly by the exporter/importer or by the legal representative. One can reuse a previous request to create a new application and others,” said UNCTAD project manager Constantin Ciuta.
Olga Golban, state secretary of the Ministry of Finance, said the new Customs Code promotes aspects to facilitate the interaction of economic agents with the external community. “We want to promote and infiltrate this facilitation into our entrepreneurial culture, as well as institutional culture, in state institutions, in this case the Customs Service,” stated Olga Golban, noting that to help to better understand these provisions of the Customs Code, employees of the Customs Service staged an information session this year.
The participants in the discussions agreed that the new Customs Code will be effective in the Republic of Moldova too as it works in the 27 member states of the European Union. However, information sessions will continue to be held throughout the country to make the implementation of the Code easy for both economic agents and customs officers.
