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Special software will be installed to allow synchronizing control processes with those of EU customs offices.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has adopted a resolution on amending the regulation on customs declarations, which will allow for the introduction of the test use of the New Computerised Transit System, or NCTS, at Ukrainian customs to carry out formalities for certain types of customs declarations.
The government made the relevant decision at its meeting on Wednesday, according to the press service of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine.
Special software will be installed to allow synchronizing control processes with those of EU customs offices.
"Thanks to this, Ukraine will be able to integrate into the NCTS, in which 35 EU member countries, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), Turkey, Macedonia and Serbia take part," the press service said.
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According to the report, the resolution introduces certain types of customs declarations for untaxable transit goods transported by enterprises between the EU, EFTA, individual member countries of the Convention on the transit procedure and Ukraine, by road without overloading the goods to other types of transport.
According to the finance ministry, software will be procured within the framework of financial assistance provided by the European Union under the Public Finance Management Support Programme for Ukraine (EU4PFM).
As UNIAN reported earlier, in April, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted in the first reading and as a basis the draft law on the general transit regime, which will allow Ukraine applying European transit rules and introducing a single customs declaration, which will speed up and cheapen the process of goods shipment.
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Joining the common transit system will speed up and improve customs procedures for goods transported across the Ukrainian-European border, reduce the cost of cross-border trade in goods with European countries, create conditions for national companies to enter European markets, as well as allow to counter more effectively the attempts of customs fraud.