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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-2229/annex/division-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-2229/annex/division-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2019/2229",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU) 2019/2229 of 19 December 2019 authorising the opening of negotiations with the Republic of Belarus for an agreement on Customs Cooperation and Mutual Administrative Assistance",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-2229",
  "path": "annex/division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Content of the envisaged Agreement",
  "text": "The envisaged Agreement will cover all provisions adopted by the European Union, and the Republic of Belarus, also referred to as the Contracting Parties, in their respective customs legislations governing the import, export and transit of goods and their placing under any other customs procedure. No field that is subject to Union jurisdiction and in which customs cooperation or mutual administrative assistance would be appropriate is excluded in principle.\nThe envisaged Agreement should therefore cover elements such as:\n(1) Cooperation on improvement of customs legislation, harmonisation and simplification of customs procedures;\n(2) Establishment of modern customs systems, including modern customs clearance technologies, provisions for authorised economic operators, automated risk-based analysis and controls, simplified procedures for the release of goods, post-release audit, provisions for customs-to-business partnerships;\n(3) Facilitation and effective control of transhipment operations and transit movements through the respective territories; cooperation and coordination between all concerned authorities and agencies in their respective territories to facilitate traffic in transit; pursue, where relevant and appropriate, possibilities for compatibility of the respective customs transit systems;\n(4) Professional ethics;\n(5) Exchange, where appropriate and under modalities to be defined, relevant information and data whilst respecting the rules on the confidentiality of sensitive data and on personal data protection of the Contracting Parties;\n(6) Coordination of customs actions between the customs authorities of the Contracting Parties;\n(7) Mutual recognition of authorised economic operators programmes and customs controls including equivalent trade facilitation measures, where relevant and appropriate and under modalities to be defined;\n(8) Customs valuation;\n(9) Mutual administrative assistance.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2019/2229/annex/division/2",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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