The Customs office was forced to temporary revoke of an order on information terminals to improve their work. Soon, the terminals will start to work with a guarantee to prepare a declaration in an hour.

Due to adoption of the new Customs Code importers are concerned about the issue, when this promised information terminals will start to work. As it was explained by the director of the Organization of Customs control and clearance SCSU Sergei Semka the new position about the terminals which was currently at the stage of registration in the Ministry of Justice would come into force soon. The terminals will register the customs declaration for one hour and will reduce the influence of human factor and corruption at the Customs Office.

“We were forced to revoke and temporary revoked the order on information terminals. All methodological recommendations were built into the order which we are registering now in the Ministry of Justice together with the Ministry of Finance under the number 314 “- said Sergei Semka during the Public Council of SCSU .Sergei Semka also noted that 100% of declarations would be submitted to an electronic terminal and time between date and time of filing in and date of giving declaration number would not be longer than one hour.“So we consciously limit opportunities of our employees to manipulate in any way,” – said the customs officer.

He claimed that Customs office will not get rid of the information terminals, and importers shall only wait for the order. “There will be a direct order of direct rules, we will keep the information terminals. We already have a rule according to which if the declaration is applied to the information terminal, it cannot be returned. One will receive either fail card or completion of customs clearance procedure,” – said Sergei Semka.

Information terminal – is a software and hardware module for declarants to input electronic copies of customs declarations to the Customs DBs by themselves.During 6 months of 2012 Customs office promised to equip 282 points of customs clearance operating in Ukraine with such terminals.

Based on DELO.UA report