Article 12. Tasks and functions of customs authorities The Code of Customs Regulation in the Republic of Kazakhstan

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1. The tasks of the customs authorities are:

1) protection of the national security of the Republic of Kazakhstan, human life and health, flora and fauna, and the environment;

2) ensuring, within its competence, the protection of the sovereignty and economic security of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

3) creating conditions for speeding up and simplifying the movement of goods across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union;

4) ensuring the enforcement of the customs and other legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the control over compliance with which is entrusted to the customs authorities (hereinafter referred to as the customs and other legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan), the customs legislation of the Eurasian Economic Union;

5) performing other tasks stipulated by this Code.

2. In order to ensure the fulfillment of the tasks assigned to the customs authorities, the customs authorities, within their competence, perform the following functions:

1) performing customs operations and customs control, including in the framework of mutual administrative assistance;

2) collection of customs duties and taxes, as well as special, anti-dumping and countervailing duties, control over the correctness of their calculation and timely payment, offset (refund) and taking measures to enforce them;

3) ensuring compliance with customs and tariff regulation measures, prohibitions and restrictions, and measures to protect the internal market in respect of goods transported across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union;

4) ensuring that the rights and legitimate interests of persons are respected when such persons move goods across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union and create conditions for accelerating trade turnover across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union;

5) ensuring, in accordance with an international agreement of the member States of the Eurasian Economic Union, measures to counteract the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and the financing of terrorism when controlling the movement across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union of the currency of the member States of the Eurasian Economic Union, securities and (or) currency valuables, traveler's checks;

6) identification, prevention and suppression of criminal and administrative offenses in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

7) ensuring the protection of intellectual property rights in the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union;

8) maintaining customs statistics;

9) participation in the improvement and implementation of customs regulation in the Republic of Kazakhstan;

10) assistance in the implementation of the common trade policy of the Eurasian Economic Union;

11) implementation and improvement of customs declaration, customs control, as well as the creation of conditions conducive to the simplification of customs operations in respect of goods and vehicles transported across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union;

12) carrying out customs control after the release of goods, as well as taking measures to collect arrears on customs payments, taxes, special, anti-dumping, countervailing duties, penalties, interest;

13) ensuring the fulfillment of international obligations of the Republic of Kazakhstan and participation in the development of international treaties of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of customs;

14) participation in the development of the material, technical and social base of customs authorities;

15) conducting radiation monitoring at checkpoints and other places where goods are transported across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union;

16) carrying out sanitary and quarantine control at automobile checkpoints across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union;

17) carrying out transport control at automobile, sea checkpoints and other places of movement of goods across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union, including at the places of delivery of goods, upon completion of the customs procedure of customs transit;

18) excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 28.10.2019 No. 268-VI (effective ten calendar days after the date of its first official publication);

19) cooperation with customs authorities and other bodies of foreign states and international organizations in accordance with international treaties of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

20) control of specific goods in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

20-1) classification of goods in cases stipulated by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

21) organization and conduct of training, retraining and advanced training of customs personnel;

22) other functions provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

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