Georgian Revenue Service Head signs agreement on participation in EU Customs Programme
The state agency stressed the importance of the involvement in EU thematic programmes and noted it would help bring international trade procedures closer to EU standards, as well as Georgia's attractiveness and the formation of a new investment environment, encouraging the development of the region's transit and trade potential. Photo: Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia
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Levan Kakava, the Head of the Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, signed an agreement on Georgia's participation in the European Union Customs Programme on Saturday.
The Revenue Service said the Programme had already been signed by the EU Council, under the protocol signed in 2014, on Cooperation and Partnership between the EU and Georgia and the general principles of Georgia 's participation in EU programmes, which gave the country the opportunity to be involved.
Participation in this programme and the conclusion of the agreement is conditioned by Georgia, European Union, European Atomic Energy Community and the Association Agreement between their member states.
The state agency stressed the importance of the involvement in EU thematic programmes and noted it would help bring international trade procedures closer to EU standards, as well as Georgia's attractiveness and the formation of a new investment environment, encouraging the development of the region's transit and trade potential.
The Revenue Service is launching an “important” project to accede to the Single Administration Document Conventions and implement the New Computerised Transit System, which will create a new electronic transit system connected to the Common Communication Network & Common System Interface and integrated into the Common Transit System of the European Union, resulting in “significantly” reducing the annual fee for connection and use of the transit system.
Georgia has made the most progress among Eastern Partnership states in implementing the Association Agreement signed with the European Union, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili told reporters in the central Georgian city of Gori on Saturday.
Results achieved as part of a programme for information-sharing for organised crime prevention and identification of high-risk shipments were discussed in a meeting between officials of Georgia’s Revenue Service and the State Revenue Committee of Armenia, the Georgian agency said on Friday.
Any type of goods, both military and dual-use, as well as all products included in the international sanctions imposed by the United States, United Kingdom, European Union and individual countries on Russia and Belarus over the military aggression in Ukraine are subject to “strict customs control” in Georgia, the country’s Revenue Service said on Friday.
Seven years ago on June 27, Georgia signed the Association Agreement (AA) with the European Union in Brussels, which includes the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA). EU Ambassador to Georgia Carl Hartzell congratulated Georgia on the anniversary, calling the Association Agreement ‘the anchor of our close relationship’.
Results achieved by Georgia in the Container Control Programme - a project of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Customs Organisation - were in focus of Georgian Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri’s comments on Wednesday that marked the 10th anniversary of the programme.
Georgian customs authorities have the transit of cargo across the country’s economic borders “under control” and are in communication with their international partners to ensure an enforcing of sanctions imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, Finance Minister Lasha Khutsishvili said on Wednesday.
Heavy rainfall has caused a temporary suspension of the Kazbegi customs checkpoint in Georgia’s north, with the state of emergency affecting the wider region, the Georgian Revenue Service announced on Monday.
An agreement on preliminary data exchange to simplify customs transit procedures between Georgian, Turkish and Azerbaijani Governments was signed on Thursday in a tripartite meeting by Levan Kakava, the Head of Georgian Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance, Riza Turagay, the Deputy Minister of Trade of Türkiye and Shakhin Bagirov, the Acting Head of the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan, in Azerbaijan's capital of Baku.
The Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia on Tuesday rejected claims by the domestic Mtavari Arkhi TV channel on exports of dual-purpose goods to Russia last year as “fake”.
Russia’s potential use of neighbouring countries for evading international sanctions imposed on it for invading Ukraine is a “natural risk”, but “no case” of evasion of the restrictions has been evidenced on the territory of Georgia, Giorgi Kakauridze, the Deputy Finance Minister of Georgia, said on Friday.
Priority directions and activities for the Tax Inspectors Without Borders programme were discussed on Friday in a meeting between Paata Kiladze, the Deputy Head of the Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, and Sami Koskinen, the coordinator and expert of the programme.