This decision was approved during a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on May 25. According to the resolution, the “single window” provides for registration of all kinds of control via electronic data exchange. In particular, it is related to customs, sanitary-epidemiological, veterinary, phytosnaitary, environmental, radiological and other controls. It is expected that this innovation will operate starting from August 1, 2016.
The Better Regulation Delivery Office believes that the introduction of the “single window” means creating modern tools that will help eliminate corruption at the customs and simplify customs procedures significantly.
It will also have a positive impact on the investment potential of our country while allowing Ukraine to improve its rank in the World Bank’s Doing Business ranking in the future.
Introducing the “single window” principle for exercising controls on crossborder movement of goods is one of the paragraphs of the Government’s Action Plan on the implementation of the best practices of efficient and quality regulation as reflected in the World Bank Group’s methodology of the Doing Business 2016 ranking.
However, the full implementation of the “single window” mechanism requires making amendments to the laws of Ukraine that regulate granting permitting documents or providing administrative services within the international economic activity as well as to a wide range of related subordinate regulations. The proper functioning of the “single window” system will also require reducing the number of regulatory bodies at the border and abolishing unjustified control / licensing procedures related to international economic activities. In addition, it is needed to solve the problem of providing government bodies with the equipment to ensure the operation of the “single window”.
Currently, the BRDO experts together with the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine are working on the draft law “On amendments to the Customs Code of Ukraine to introduce the “single window” at the border” and on a concept of implementing the “single window” system in Ukraine.