Single Window system launched at Ukrainian customs

The press service of the Head of State reported.

On Thursday, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk and Chairman of the State Fiscal Service Roman Nasirov demonstrated operation of the Single Window principle at the Stolychny customs point of the Kyiv customs.

"It was a huge decision for the Government. We are very grateful to the Prime Minister because he personally initiated it, assumed personal responsibility to introduce in Ukraine a system similar to those in effect in most developed countries of the globe", the SFS chairman said during the presentation of the work of the Single Window.

"A customs reform is the most anticipated reform among the major transformations in Ukraine, in the financial sector. The reform that envisages the introduction of the Single Window is, I believe, the most crucial reform within the framework of retrofitting the customs authorities”, Minister of Finance of Ukraine Olexandr Danyliuk said.

"The Finance Ministry, the SFS, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, the Culture Ministry, the Health Ministry with the participation of the National Bank are commissioned to form a working group under the chairmanship of Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Oleksandr Saienko to ensure the introduction of a single window principle during customs control and customs clearance of goods, and on the results to submit in a three-week’s period a draft act of the Government, which will provide the reduction of terms and simplifying of import-export operations, as well as to ensure their video-recording", reads the protocol order.

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