04.02.2016

On 4 February 2016, the Customs, Transport & Logistics Subcommittee of the AEB North-Western Regional Committee organised a round table with representatives of the North-Western Customs Administration (NWCA) on "News of the customs legislation and practice".

The event focused on the following issues:

• The situation with TIR: law enforcement practice of the SZTU customs authorities.
• The use of information technology for customs declaration – current status and prospects.
• The practice of working with authorised economic operators in the North-West: main achievements and difficulties.
• The practice of the SZTU provision of preliminary decisions on the classification of goods under HS EAEC: results, and basic recommendations for application package.

Sergey Vasiliev, Chairman of the Subcommittee, and Wilhelmina Shavshina, Deputy Chairperson of the AEB Customs & Transport Committee (Moscow), moderated the event. Alexander Getman, Head of the NWCA, welcomed the participants, highlighted the importance of collaboration with European business in terms of customs regulations and practice and briefed on the main topics to be discussed at the meeting. He presented his colleagues: Mikhail Serebrennikov, Head of the NWCA customs transit service control department, Stanislav Shklensky, Head of the NWCA customs control advanced technology service department, Elena Perova, Head of the NWCA customs procedures and customs control department, and Maria Shakhina, Head of department for preliminary decisions on the classification of goods and country of origin, Federal Customs Revenues Service of the NWCA, who further clarified the above-mentioned topics and answered participant questions. Dmitry Cheltsov, Chairman of the AEB Customs & Transport Committee in Moscow, also took part in the meeting. He briefly elaborated on the current issues that the committee is working on and the achievements of the past year in customs regulations. After that, the participants were given the opportunity to ask the speakers questions.

The event was kindly hosted by DLA Piper in St. Petersburg.

L–R: Stanislav Shklensky, Head of customs control advanced technology introduction service department of NWCA; Mikhail Serebrennikov, Head of customs transit service control department of NWCA; Alexander Getman, Head of the NWCA; Wilhelmina Shavshina, Deputy Chairperson of the AEB Customs & Transport Committee (Moscow); Mikhail Saushkin, Head of customs payments department of NWCA.