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    ARMENIA TO HELP DRAFT CUSTOMS UNION'S CUSTOMS CODE

    ITAR-TASS, Russia
    March 13, 2014 Thursday 11:39 PM GMT+4

    YEREVAN March 13

    - Armenian specialists will help draft the Customs Code of the
    Customs Union created by Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, the Armenian
    government said on Thursday, March 13, after talks between Prime
    Minister Tigran Sargsyan and Eurasian Economic Commission Board member
    Vladimir Goshin.

    Sargsyan and Goshin discussed customs legislation and cooperation
    during Armenia's accession to the Customs Union. Goshin told Sargsyan
    about the work on the Customs Code to be put into effect next year.

    In September 2013, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan "reaffirmed
    Armenia's wish to accede to the Customs Union and join in the process
    of forming the Eurasian Economic Union."

    Armenia may join the Customs Union in 2014, Viktor Khristenko,
    chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission's Board, said last week 6.

    "I think the accession of Armenia will be legally formalised in 2014,"
    Khristenko said.

    Preliminary results of implementation by Armenia of the roadmap for
    accession to the Customs Union were reported to the presidents of
    the member states at a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Commission
    on March 5.

    "Over the two months that have passed since the December summit, and
    we can say that Armenia has made great headway in implementing the
    roadmap ahead of schedule. I feel optimistic about the possibility
    and ability of Armenia to implement the 260-point roadmap and the
    amount of work to be done before admission," Khristenko said.

    The Customs Union between Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan was
    established on December 19, 2009, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where the
    leaders of the three states - Dmitry Medvedev, Alexander Lukashenko,
    and Nursultan Nazarbayev - signed the Joint Statement on its founding.

    The first phase of the Customs Union's functioning began on January 1,
    2010, with the introduction of a uniform customs tariff.

    The Customs Union's highest bodies are the Interstate Councils of the
    heads of states and governments of its members. Its joint permanent
    governing body is the Customs Union Commission.

    The Customs Union formation envisages creation of a common customs
    territory where no customs duties or economic restrictions will apply,
    save for special protective, anti-dumping and compensatory measures.

    Within the Customs Union, a uniform customs tariff and other uniform
    measures regulating the commodity trade with third nations will
    be applied.

    The Eurasian Economic Commission is a supranational body of the
    Common Economic Space created by Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The
    Common Economic Space has been operating since the start of 2012. A
    supranational regulatory body - the Eurasian Economic Commission -
    has been created and has become operational. It will take over the
    function of further deepening of integration.

    Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan signed the Agreement on the Eurasian
    Economic Commission on November 18, 2011. The Commission started
    working on January 1, 2012.

    The Commission coordinates integration processes within the Customs
    Union and the Unified Economic Space.

    The Commission has a Council made up of deputy prime ministers,
    which will carry out overall supervision of integration processes,
    and a Board, a working body to which all member states will delegate
    their representatives.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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