Customs Cooperation Counsil (CCC)

• Customs Cooperation Counsil (CCC) — the permanent international non-governmental organization; is formed(educated) according to the international Convention signed in December, 1950 (actually has come into force in November, 1952). Now members of Council are more than 120 states.
• Primary goals of Council:
  
  • Coordination and unification of customs requests;
  • Perfecting customs operation;
  • Establishment of international cooperation in sphere of procedures of customs.
  
• Besides the General Convention on establishment of Council other two important documents were simultaneously signed:
  
  • Convention on an estimation of the goods in the customs purposes;
  
  • Convention on the customs nomenclature.
  
• The Soviet Union became the member of the given Council in October, 1990. Russian Federation became the member of Council as  assignee  former USSR.
  
• During the activity council produces for countries -  participants of the recommendation for the broad audience of questions connected to observance of the existing international customs rules. Rather often preparation of the decisions passes within the framework of specialized committees in structure of council (among them — Committee on the nomenclature, Committee according to the goods in the customs purposes, Committee on harmonized system of the description and copying of the goods,   constant technical Committee on customs business, Technical Committee according to the goods in the customs purposes). The transfer of committees allows to constitute opinion on breadth considered by them
  Problems of world foreign economic relations.