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Functions of Russian Customs Offices

The Customs Service of the Russian Federation is a public administration body subordinated to the Government under the control of the Prime-Minister which ensures the economic security of the state, promotes the customs policy and directly governs the customs activity of the Russian Federation. The Customs Service is a law enforcement body, which works as a budgetary institution, subsidized from the state budget, owns special funds, as well as resources resulting from the self-managing activity of the subordinate units.

The service in customs bodies is a special type of activity within civil service targeted towards exercising the functions, rights and obligations of the customs bodies, which are part of the law bodies system.

A customs officer is a law enforcement agent who enforces customs laws, on behalf ofa government. Customs officers are part of an integrated federal centralised system. The state power bodies of the constituencies of the Russian Federation, the local self-governance bodies and public organisations shall not interfere in the work of customs officers.

The customs officers perform many functions. They are appointed to effect the customs registration and customs control measures, create favourable conditions for expediting goods conveyance across the customs border and levy customs duties, taxes. The customs officials ensure the observance of the requirements regulating the conveyance across the customs border of goods and means of transport and ensure the observance of the restrictions and prohibitions according to the Federal Law of the Russian Federation on the State Regulation of Foreign Trade Activities and the international treaties. They protect the intellectual property rights provide within the sphere of their competence. One of the most important task today is to prevent smuggling and other crimes and administrative offences in the sphere of customs system, obstruct illegal conveyance across the customs border of drugs, weapons, items of cultural value, radioactive agents, plants and animals under the threat of extinction, intellectual property objects, as well as render assistance in the struggle against international terrorism.

Within the sphere of their competence according to the provisions of the Law of the Russian Federation on Currency Regulation and Currency Control, customs offices exercise currency control over the operations involving conveyance of goods and means of transport across the customs border.

According with the Russian legislation, customs officers shall bear disciplinary, administrative, criminal and other responsibility for their unlawful decisions, actions (inaction). Customs officers shall be obliged to reimburse any damage inflicted on persons and their property as a result of unlawful decisions, actions (inaction) of their customs officers. Any damage caused by the lawful actions of their officers shall not be subject to indemnity unless this Customs Code and other federal statutes contain other provisions thereto.



The professional training of the Customs Service staff includes systematic and planned activities for the training and continuous professional development of customs officers, according to the international standards, organized in the framework of the Training Center for Customs Officers. This activity is strategically important as it enhances the professional competences, expands and updates the knowledge of the customs staff, ensures professional integrity and develops the necessary skills for the efficient fulfillment of the job responsibilities and functions of the customs bodies as established through the current legislation.

Exercise 4.Decide whether the following statements are true or false.

1. The local governments and public organisations must control the work of customs officers. 2. The customs officers exercise many functions. 3. It is allowed to export the items of cultural value. 4. The Custom Service is a law subsidized body. 5. The customs staff must always continue to enhance their professional competence.

 

Exercise 5.Answer the following questions.

1. Why is the professional training important? 2. How is the Custom Service subsidized? 3. Who enforces customs laws? 4. What kinds of goods are forbidden to transfer across the state border? 5. What state acts of law regulate the action of the customs officers? 6. What do the customs officers do with the taxes and customs duties? 7. What do the custom officials ensure? 8. What responsibility can customs officers bear for their unlawful decisions? 9. What do the customs officials protect? 10. What is the Customs Service subordinated to?

 

Exersice 6.Read and translate the text. Use the dictionary when necessary. Pay attention to the differences between Russia and Britain.


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