The Customs Code of the Customs Union enters into force on July 6, 2010

July 5, Astana / Vladimir Matveev - BELTA /. A single customs territory of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan will be formed from July 6, 2010. This was announced to journalists in Astana today by First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Shuvalov, BELTA correspondent reports. "As of now, the regulatory framework for the functioning of the Customs Union is fully in place. Although not all documents have undergone internal procedures, it has been applied in the territory of two states, Kazakhstan and Russia, since July 1, 2010. From tomorrow, July 6, 2010, a single customs territory will be formed between Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan. A single Customs Code of the Customs Union and all resulting documents, international treaties, will be applied in the single customs territory," Igor Shuvalov said. According to him, today the heads of state of the Customs Union decided that the governments of the three countries need to take all necessary measures to develop all agreements forming the Single Economic Space between the three states by January 1, 2011. "Initially, we agreed that we should work out only the first package, consisting of 14 agreements, within this timeframe. However, today it was decided to accelerate this work, and we must do everything to ensure that the entire package for the Single Economic Space is developed and adopted before January 1, 2011," Igor Shuvalov noted. -0-