Реферат: Customs Service

upgrading of customs administration, including the development of the system of risks management on the basis of the implementation of customs procedures in accordance with the international standards, based on the latest achievements in the field of information and management technologies;

strengthening of cooperation with the Russian, foreign and international authorities in fighting terrorism, contraband of weapons, drugs and counterfeit products, and also in provision of economical, environmental and radiation security.

The realization of the tasks above, presupposes the provision in all the territory of the Russian Federation of stable legal regime for foreign trade, based on the approved by the World Customs Organization the following universal principles:

standartization, modernization of customs legislation, development of the norms, regulations and procedures taking into account the international standards;

transparency and predictability. The customs legislation, the norms, regulations and procedures are to be applied consistently; they are unified, known to the public and are to be advised to all the interested parties in the acceptable form;

minimum interference. Customs authorities are to comply with the principles of selective approach to and sufficiency of customs control, as much as possible, and are to apply the system of risks management;

customer orientation. Customs administration is targeted to increase quality of customs procedures in relation to legal and physical persons as participants of foreign trade activities;

cooperation and partnership. The activity of customs authorities presupposes the development of cooperation with all the participants of foreign trade, including the state authorities, business community, and customs authorities of other states;

balanced approach in relationship between customs control in the field of security and measures assisting the development of trade.

The new principles defined in the framework standards for the provision of security and alleviation of world trade, adopted by the World Customs Organization and approved by the Federal Customs Service are going to be the basis for the activity of customs authorities of the Russian Federation.

On the one hand, there will be formed new approaches to customs administration, which presuppose the provision of its high efficiency with outward simplicity and quick customs clearance of goods and transport means, conveyed by physical and legal persons, while on the other hand, such approaches shall help resolve the problems, related to decreasing of customs value of goods and their unauthentic declaring by the participants of foreign trade activities.

The efficiency of achieving the goal of development of customs authorities of the Russian Federation, shall be evaluated as per following parameters:

The level of control of the compliance with the customs legislation by the participants of foreign trade activities;

Time required for passing customs formalities during customs clearance of goods and transport means conveyed across the border by physical and legal entities, provided efficient customs control is carried out;

Law enforcing activity.

The priority of separate trends of customs authorities’ activity may be changed in accordance with the tasks set by the state.

III. The System of Measures for Implementation of the Concept

The following measures on modernization of customs administration are to be implemented for the purposes of realizing new approaches in the work of customs authorities of the Russian Federation:

developing of the state border of the Russian Federation;

setting up of modern warehousing customs logistical terminals;

allocating of customs authorities of the Russian Federation only in the federally owned premises;

allocating of the chain of stationary and mobile inspectorial supervision complexes;

amending the Customs Code of the Russian Federation and other regulations taking into account the law enforcement practice and amendments to the international standards;

implementing of new IT means for the support of the activities of customs authorities of the Russian Federation;

setting up of the interagency automated system of collection, storing and processing of information in realizing of all types of state control, including interfacing of the data bases of the tax service and customs authorities of the Russian Federation;

setting up of an operation centre for processing the information and taking decisions;

modernization of the technology of forming and keeping customs statistics in accordance with the international standards;

reinforcing of customs control after issuing of goods in circulation in the territory of the Russian Federation (post audit control).

The evaluation of the activity of customs authorities of the Russian Federation shall be carried out quarterly on the criteria of efficiency targeted to the final result.