Government has approved mandatory application of the “one-stop” clearance procedure at all customs offices starting from February 1, 2018
The Government approved
the mandatory application of the “one-stop” clearance procedures by all businesses
and customs offices starting from February 1, 2018.
What’s it about?
After the launch
of the “one-stop” clearance procedure on August
1, 2016, the Ministry of Finance permanently
monitored its operation and incrementally
extended options for business to
use this simplified procedure of customs clearance.
For the further
development and operation of the
“one-stop” information exchange system, the Ministry of
Finance prepared amendments to the
Decree of the Cabinet of
Ministers “On Some Issues Related
to the Implementation
of the “One-Stop” Principle during Customs, Sanitary, Veterinary, Phyto-Sanitary, Ecological,
Radiological Control and Other Types
of State Control”.
The amendments include:
- extension of
the “one-stop” procedure onto the traffic of
goods in all customs regimes
(currently, it is only applied
for import and export) and
under regular and preliminary customs declarations containing complete data (currently, it is only
applied for some of the
customs declaration types for import
and export);
- reduced number
of scanned documents due to
the submission of all necessary
data in the
preliminary declarations;
- the time
span available for the controlling
authorities to decide on the
physical examination has been reduced
from 24 to 12 working hours;
- the time
span available for the controlling
authorities to decide on the
release of goods leaving the
customs territory of Ukraine has
been reduced from 24 to 4 hours.
Also, the Ministry
of Finance is implementing the monthly monitoring
of the operation
of the “one-stop” procedure as well as
seminars in all regions of
Ukraine aimed to address detected
problems.
What’s the benefit?
The mandatory application
of the “one-stop” procedure starting from February
1, 2018, will ensure equal terms for
all businesses, enable effective state control instead
and will make it possible
to assess the work of
all involved state agencies and customs offices.
More about the
“one-stop” procedure:
• “One-stop” procedure
is a united electronic system for data exchange
enabling various controlling bodies and customs offices
to automatically exchange data about
shipments passing the border of
Ukraine and about the results
of their examination;
• The implementation
of the “one-stop” procedure was decided on
May 25, 2016, when the Decree of
the Cabinet of Ministers No.
364 “On Some Issues Related to the Implementation
of the “One-Stop” Principle during Customs, Sanitary, Veterinary, Phyto-Sanitary, Ecological,
Radiological Control and Other Types
of State Control” was adopted;
• The above
Decree also determines the rules of information
exchange between fiscal authorities, other state agencies
as well as
businesses using electronic tools.