Agreement on legal assistance and interaction of customs authorities of state members of custom union on criminal cases and cases on administrative offenses

of July 5, 2010

The state members of custom union within Eurasian economic community which are hereinafter referred to as with the Parties

based on provisions of the Constitutive treaty of Eurasian economic community of October 10, 2000, the Agreement on creation of single customs area and forming of custom union of October 6, 2007,

attaching importance to fight against violations of the customs legislation of custom union and the legislation of the Parties, control of which observance is imposed on customs authorities for which making administrative or criminal liability is provided,

wishing to render for this purpose each other broader assistance in investigation of the specified violations and to increase efficiency of cooperation in this area by the organization of interaction in case of investigation of criminal cases and cases on administrative offenses and their methodical providing, and also information exchange in the field,

agreed as follows:

Part I. General provisions

Article 1. Scope of application

1. Scope of this agreement is the legal assistance and interaction of customs authorities of the Parties for the purpose of disclosure of crimes, involvement of perpetrators to the criminal, administrative responsibility for violations of the customs legislation of custom union and the legislation of the Parties, control of which observance is imposed on customs authorities.

2. The central customs authorities for the purposes of this agreement are: from the Republic of Armenia - the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Armenia, from the Republic of Belarus - the State Customs Committee, from the Republic of Kazakhstan - the Customs Control Committee of the Ministry of Finance, from the Russian Federation - the Federal Customs Service.

Territorial customs authorities are other customs authorities of the Parties performing production on criminal cases and (or) conducting administrative process (production) on cases on administrative offenses.

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