Improving Customs Transit Systems
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ranked on a 104th place out of 160 economies assessed comparing to 2016 when the
Kyrgyz Republic was ranked 146th. The Kyrgyz Republic had the biggest advance in the
world comparing 2016 and 2018;
 Kyrgyzstan, according the UN Global Survey on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade
Implementation 2019 has 37.63% TF score.
4.1.3 The legal framework at the National and Regional level
4.1.3.1 Kyrgyz Republic Customs Code
The Law on Customs came into force in May 2019, which is in compliance with the EAEU
Customs Code. The administrative instruction and implementing regulations for the
implementation of the Law have been drafted by the Kyrgyz Customs, but are yet to be approved
by Kyrgyz Government; as a result, the previous regulations remain in force.
The new administrative instruction and implementing regulations related to the harmonization
of legislation - an approximation of legislation of the EAEU Member States- aim at the
establishment of a similar (compatible) legal and regulatory framework, and they are in the
process of approval in the g governmental procedure. KCS has the authority to conclude
administrative agreements/ Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) related to transit procedures
with Kyrgyzstan trade/business community, OGAs, national organizations or associations,
airline companies, railway, and express courier services.
4.1.3.2 National Transit Law and Regulations
The following laws and regulations define the customs transit:
 Customs Code, Article 184 (implementing regulations still in force);
 The law of the KG in December 1997 Article 99 "About accession of the Kyrgyz Republic
to the Customs Convention on the international transportation of goods with the
application of the book of IRU – TIR (temporary regulation);
 The temporary regulation about the order of customs control of transportation of goods
within the IRU procedure;
 The decision of the Commission of the Customs Union, June 2010, Article 289 Defining
the form and order of filling of the transit declaration;
 The decision of the Commission of the Customs Union, August 2010, Article 438,
"Customs operations related with submission, registration of the transit declaration,
and completion of a customs procedure of customs transit."