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President Ilham Aliyev signs decree on some measures to strengthen social protection of employees of State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan, simplify procedures and increase transparency in customs sphere

25 February 2011 17:25 (UTC +04:00)

The procedures related to customs registration, carrying out state registration, taking a permanent record of vehicles imported into the territory of the Republic, providing certificate of state registration and state registration number of the vehicles will be based on the principle of â€œsingle windowâ€.

Baku â€“ APA. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed the decree on some measures to strengthen social protection of employees of the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan, simplify procedures and increase transparency in customs sphere, the presidentâ€™s press service told APA. The decree envisages directing 25 percent of the funds, made available to off-budgetary fund for development of the customs system in Azerbaijan, towards the payment of allowances to the monthly official salaries of the employees with special ranking and civilian employees of the State Customs Committee.
The State Customs Committee, Interior Ministry and Ministry of Justice were instructed to, within three months, ensure the simplification of procedures related to customs registration, carrying out state registration, taking a permanent record of vehicles imported into the territory of the Republic, providing certificate of state registration and state registration number of the vehicles and granting rights to own, use and acquire vehicles based on the principle of â€œsingle windowâ€.
The State Customs Committee was also instructed to ensure the receipt of all the legal customs payments only through bank or credit card, introduce an electronic management system (â€œelectronic turnâ€) in order to improve efficiency and transparency of services provided by the customs agencies, as well as increase control over the strict observance of the legislative requirements by the State Customs Committee employees in performing their official duties.
The Cabinet of Ministers was instructed to bring the â€œRegulations on off-budgetary fund for development of customs system in the Azerbaijan Republicâ€ and the â€œRules of spending the resources of the Fundâ€ into conformity with this order during a month, as well as resolve other issues arising from this decree.