Customs Service complies with international trade facilitation requirements

This year Moldova has joined two international conventions on the facilitation of trade: the Istanbul Convention on Temporary Admission of 1990 and the International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods of 1982, Info-Prim Neo reports. Viorel Melnic, the director general of the Customs Service, said that the joining of the two conventions will have a beneficial impact on crossborder coordination as part of the European Neighborhood Policy. In order to implement the conventions, there will be formulated a series of normative documents so as to adjust the internal border control procedures. Melnic said that the adjustment of the customs legislation to the European and international standards remains a top priority of the Customs Service. He specified that the national legislation is being aligned to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Kyoto Convention), which allows performing the customs procedures transparently and successively, using modern techniques and information technology. Also, specialists of the Customs Service and the customs offices are drafting the Code of Customs Procedure according to the EU standards. “This document will include all the customs procedures and norms defined in detail. It will be accessible to our employees, other specialists and the economic entities,” Viorel Melnic said.