Prospects of Enhancement of the Fulfilment Order of Customs Operations Connected with the Development of a Unified Automated Information System of Customs Bodies

• Main Author: Aleksandr Sergeevich Abramov
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: North-West institute of management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration 2018-04-01
• Series: Управленческое консультирование
• Subjects: speed of fulfilment of customs operations; a unified automated system of customs bodies; a system of interdepartmental electronic interaction; a technological map of interdepartmental interaction
• Online Access: https://www.acjournal.ru/jour/article/view/708

The speed of fulfilment of customs operations is one of the main criteria of the efficiency of customs bodies’ activity. Now the Government of the Russian Federation and the Federal Customs Service of Russia conduct systematic work directed on the acceleration of customs operations related to the movement of goods through the customs borders of the Eurasian Economic Union and their further placement under customs procedures requested by customs applicants. One of the directions of acceleration of customs operations is the reduction of the number of documents submitted by the participant of foreign trade activities for the fulfilment of customs formalities. The main tool for the solution of the specified goal with preservation of customs control efficiency is the development of a unified automated information system of customs bodies and its subsystem, a system of interdepartmental electronic interaction, aimed at the interaction with other federal executive authorities. Active work on the organisation of interdepartmental interaction in custom bodies was begun in 2012. This interaction is carried out through the development and agreement of Technological Maps of Interdepartmental Interaction (ТMII). There had been developed 65 TMII by the end of 2015. Thus, the possibility of obtaining of almost all permissive documents issued by other executive authorities in electronic form is implemented. However there remains a large percentage of unanswered inquiries so far. Such a negative statistic is caused mostly by two reasons: the peculiarities of TMII development and the absence of answers to the requests for permissive documents issued by the bodies of other countries of the Eurasian Economic Union. These problems can be solved by the deployment of the integrated information system of foreign and mutual trade of the Customs Union in the nearest future as well as the improvement of the existing TMII. Another option is the introduction of a mechanism of customs control based on the end-to-end process using a unified software product.