The agreement between the Government of the Republic of Belarus, the Government of the Russian Federation and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on cooperation and exchange of information in the field of fight against violations of the tax legislation

of October 19, 1999

The government of the Republic of Belarus, the Government of the Russian Federation and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine which are hereinafter referred to as with the Parties

being guided by the legislation and the international obligations of the states,

proceeding from mutual interest in effective solution of the tasks connected with identification, the prevention and suppression of violations of the tax legislation

attaching importance to use for this purpose of all legal opportunities,

agreed as follows:

Article 1 Subject of the agreement

1. Subject of this agreement is the cooperation of competent authorities of the Parties for the purpose of the organization of effective fight for identification, the prevention and suppression of the violations of the tax legislation referred to the sphere of maintaining competent authorities of the Parties.

2. This agreement does not affect the rights and obligations of the Parties following from international treaties on rendering legal assistance on civil and criminal cases which participants are the states of the Parties.

Article 2 Terms

For the purposes of this agreement:

1. "Competent authority" means:

for the Belarusian Side - the State committee of financial investigations of the Republic of Belarus;

for the Russian Side - the Federal Tax Police Service of the Russian Federation;

for the Ukrainian Side - State Tax Administration of Ukraine.

In case of change of the official name of competent authorities of the Party without delay will notify on this each other.

2. "Violation of the tax legislation" means any crime or offense, fight against which is assigned to competent authorities of the Parties.

Article 3 of Form of cooperation

Competent authorities of the Parties within this agreement use the following forms of cooperation:

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