The agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of Turkmenistan on cooperation and mutual assistance in customs affairs

of December 23, 1993

The government of the Russian Federation and the Government of Turkmenistan which are hereinafter referred to as with Contracting Parties

wishing to develop good-neighbourhood including by means of cooperation in the field of customs affairs,

aiming to promote by cooperation of Customs Services to development and acceleration of passenger and freight traffic between two countries,

meaning that customs violations cause damage to economic interests of both Contracting Parties,

convinced that observance of the customs laws and rules and fight against customs offenses can be performed more successfully in case of cooperation of Customs Services of Contracting Parties, agreed as follows:

Determinations

Article 1

For the purposes of this agreement the following terms are applied:

"customs legislation" means set of the precepts of law regulating procedure for import, export and transit of goods, hand luggage and baggage of passengers, the international mailings, currency and other values, collection of customs duties and other taxes and fees or privileges, prohibitions, restrictions and permissions, control of movement of goods through frontier;

"Customs Services" are meant for Russian by Storonygosudarstvenny customs committee of the Russian Federation; for the Turkmen Side - the State customs of Turkmenistan;

"customs violation" means any violation or attempt of violation of the customs legislation;

"person" means any physical person or legal entity;

"drugs" means the substances included in lists of the Single convention of the UN of March 30, 1961 about drugs with subsequent changes and amendments;

"psychotropic substances" means the substances included in lists of the Convention of the UN of February 21, 1971 about psychotropic substances with subsequent changes.

Scope of the Agreement

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