⚡️ On 2 September, Valery Pikalev, Head of the Russian Federal Customs Service met with Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs of India.

⚡️ This is the fifth meeting at the level of heads of departments for the last two years. Valery Pikalev and Sanjay K. Agarwal stressed the special importance of the need to implement the agreement on mutual recognition of Authorised Economic Operators signed in May 2024 in New Delhi, which provides for maximum simplification of customs formalities for companies registered in the Authorised Economic Operator programmes of the customs services of Russia and India.

⚡️ The parties agreed to keep up the momentum and maintain regular contacts at the level of heads of agencies.

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On September 3, the #BRICS Customs Heads meeting, held this year under the chairmanship of the Federal Customs Service #FСS of Russia, took place.

⚡️ The parties summarised the results of customs cooperation on the platform and exchanged views on priority aspects of cooperation.

⚡️ One of the key outcomes of the meeting was the signing of the Joint Plan of Action on mutual recognition of AEO Customs programmes.

The meeting participants also agreed to:
🟣to strengthen customs co-operation;
🟣make comprehensive efforts to sign the Agreement on Co-operation and Mutual Administrative Assistance of the BRICS AEO Programmes as soon as possible
on co-operation and mutual administrative assistance in customs matters;
🟣modernise customs co-operation into more
practice-oriented format;
🟣develop co-operation in the law enforcement sphere.

🇷🇺⚡️ During the meeting, Valery Pikalyov, Head of the FCS, emphasised the need to unite their efforts to provide comprehensive assistance to the new members of the association for their inclusion in the processes of customs co-operation on the BRICS platform.

🇮🇳 Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs of India, took part in the event.

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