International Activities of the Russian Customs Academy

Training and advanced training of Customs officers is carried out by the Russian Customs Academy (RCA). The RCA is the head institution of the Association on education in the field of Customs affairs. It unites 79 higher educational establishments of the Russian Federation.

On the basis of the RCA the World Customs Organization held three international workshops on the problems of determination of the Customs value, nonintrusive methods of examination techniques, and on the issues of Kyoto Convention.

A close co-operation of the RCA with the Customs Authorities of the CIS countries was arranged and their representatives responsible for training were opened in Moscow. The Academy trains 513 students from the States-members of CIS.

The main directions of International activity of the Russian Customs Academy are training for the customs authorities of the CIS, the work with the students from near and far abroad, organization of international seminars and conferences at the Regional Training Centre of the WCO, the organization of cooperation in manpower training and research with foreign universities as a part of an international network of customs universities “INCU”.

The International unit of the Academy consists of three departments: Assurance department of the Regional Training Centre of the WCO, International co-operation and working with foreign students Department and research laboratory of analysis and synthesis of customs international experience.

The departments of the International unit have organized and conducted a series of working meetings, conferences and seminars with representatives of various international organizations, signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian Customs Academy and the College of Customs and logistics of the High School of Economics (Warsaw) and the Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian customs Academy and the Riga Technical University.

On 05.12.2011 in accordance with the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Russian customs Academy (Russian Federation) and the National Academy of customs, excise and counter-narcotics (Republic of India) there have been carried out the student’s exchange of two universities. The advanced training included the holding of theoretical, practical (based on the departments of Academy) and field studies (with the customs authorities of the FCS of Russia), and also cultural programmes for members of the NACEN delegation.

The World Customs Organization secretariat positively evaluated the work of the Russian Regional Centre for the implementation in the learning process the e-learning program of the World Customs Organization. As a result the Moscow Regional Centre was awarded with four certificates given to representatives of the academic staff of the Academy.

One of the main activities of the Regional Centre of the Academy is based on the organizational work for the production of electronic customs magazine in conjunction with RTC- Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine) and RTC - Skopje (Macedonia).

In the electronic scientific magazine highlighted the main customs aspects of customs activity: cooperation of customs authorities and business communities, training of customs officers, the introduction of standards of the WCO, the achievements in the field of customs, the development of scientific knowledge.

Date: 2015-12-24; view: 1086