Application
To the Contract about the Customs code
Customs union accepted
By the decision of Interstate Council
The Euroasian economic community
( Supreme body of customs union)
At a level of the chapters of the states
From November 27, 2009 N 17
(unofficial translation)
A r t i c l e 367.
Transitional provisions in respect of persons working in the field of customs, and other persons
1. Customs agents (representatives) in the Republic of Belarus, customs brokers in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and customs brokers (representatives) in the Russian Federation, customs carriers, owners of temporary storage warehouses, bonded warehouses and duty free shops, established before the entry into force of this Code shall have the right to operate in the customs area within 6 (six) months from the date of entry into force of this Code.
2. Customs agents (representatives) in the Republic of Belarus, customs brokers in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and customs brokers (representatives) in the Russian Federation recognized by customs representatives at the time provided in paragraph 1 of this article.
3. Customs carriers, established before the entry into force of this Code, shall be entitled to carriage of goods under customs supervision, the customs territory of the customs union in the cases and on conditions prescribed by customs laws and customs union within 6 (six) months from the date of entry into force this Code without confirmation of their status in accordance with paragraph 4 of Article 18 of this Code.
The provisions of part one of this paragraph shall apply if there is information on the inclusion of customs carriers in the general register of customs carriers, the Commission formed a customs union, and a copy of the document confirming the right to carry out activities as a customs carrier.
Customs authorities until the entry into force of this Code shall submit to the Customs Union Commission Register of Customs Carriers for the formation of a common register of customs carriers in accordance with the second part of paragraph 3 of Article 18 of this Code.
4. The provisions of Article 13 of this Code, in providing security for the payment of customs duties and taxes equivalent to at least one million euros, exchange rates established in accordance with the laws of the State - a member of the customs union, on the day of making such a provision as a condition for the inclusion of legal persons in the register of customs representatives, shall apply in the states - members of a customs union, if legislation provides that a customs representative of the obligation to pay customs duties and taxes arises in solidarity with the payer of customs duties and taxes.
States - members of a customs union, the law which at the coming into force of this Code does not provide for such joint and several obligation to pay customs duties and taxes shall within 1 (one) year to provide in its legislation, under which the customs duty of the representative payment of customs duties and taxes arises in solidarity with the payer of customs duties and taxes.
5. For the Republic of Belarus, the provisions of Article 39 of this Code, in providing security for the payment of customs duties and taxes equivalent to at least one million euros, exchange rates established in accordance with the laws of the state - member of a customs union, on the day of making such arrangements as terms of assigning legal status to persons authorized economic operator shall enter into force after 18 (eighteen) months from the date of entry into force of this Code.
6. Persons who have the status "Bona Fide Foreign Economic Affairs in the Republic of Belarus, the person on the roster of participants in foreign economic activities, classified as minimum risk, in the Republic of Kazakhstan and the person in respect of which special simplified procedures of customs clearance in the Russian Federation within 6 (six) months from the date of entry into force of this Code shall enjoy special simplifications provided by the authorized economic operator in accordance with article 41 of this Code, in the amount of simplifications that have been identified for such persons the legislation states - members of a customs union before the coming into force of this Code.