The agreement between the Government of the Republic of Belarus and the Government of the Azerbaijan Republic on cooperation and mutual aid in customs affairs

of November 5, 2004

The government of the Republic of Belarus and the Government of the Azerbaijan Republic which are hereinafter referred to as with the Parties

wishing to develop friendship including by means of cooperation in the field of customs affairs,

aiming to promote by cooperation of customs authorities to development and expansion of trade and economic relations between the states of the Parties,

meaning that observance of the customs legislation and fight against customs offenses can be performed more successfully in case of cooperation of customs authorities of the states of the Parties,

agreed as follows:

Article 1 of Determination

For the purposes of this agreement the applied terms mean:

the customs legislation - set of precepts of law of the states of the Parties regulating procedure for import, export and transit of goods, hand luggage and baggage of passengers, currency and other values, the international mailings, customs clearance of goods, collection of customs duties, charges and other payments, provision of privileges, establishment of prohibitions and restrictions, and also control of movement of goods through customs borders of the states of the Parties;

competent customs authorities:

in the Republic of Belarus - the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Belarus;

in the Azerbaijan Republic - the State Customs Committee of the Azerbaijan Republic;

the requesting customs authority - competent customs authority of the state of the Party which sends inquiry for rendering assistance by customs questions;

required customs authority - competent customs authority of the state of the Party which receives request about rendering assistance on customs questions;

customs offense - violation of regulations of the customs legislation:

drugs - the substances included in lists of the Single convention of the UN on drugs of 1961;

psychotropic substances - the substances included in lists of the Convention of the UN on psychotropic substances of 1971;

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