G/TFA/N/ARM/3  
 
 
23 September 2020  
(20-6435) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Trade Facilitation  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE  10.6.2 OF THE AGREEMENT ON TRADE FACILITATION  
COMMUNICATION FROM  ARMENIA  
The following communication, dated  7 September  2020, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of  Armenia  for Members' information.  
 
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The Republic of Armenia  hereby m akes the following notification  based on Article 10.6.2 of the 
Agreement on Trade Facilitation.  
 
Article 10, paragraph 6.2  
 
1. Chapter 55 of the Customs Code (hereinafter referred to as the Code) of the 
Eurasian  Economic Union (hereinafter referred to as the Union) defines the regulations related to 
the activities of a customs broker . 
2. In particular, according to Article 401 of the Code the customs broker shall carry out, in the 
name and on be half of the declarant or other interested persons, customs operations in the territory 
of the member State whose customs authority included it in the registry of customs brokers, in 
accordance with treaties and acts on customs regulation. The r elationship of the customs broker 
with the declarants or other interested persons shall be established on contractual basis.  
3. At the same time, the activity of the customs broker within the framework of the Code is 
considered a type of registry activity carried out in the field of customs . The conditions for inclusion 
of persons in the registry of customs brokers and the grounds for exclusion of them from the registry 
are defined in accordance with Articles 402 and 403 of the Code.  
4. Among other conditions, the conditi on for inclusion in the registry of customs brokers is 
ensuring the fulfilment of the obligations of the legal entity in the amount defined by the 
Eurasian  Economic Commission, except in the cases provided for in Article 402 of the Code. The 
specified amou nt is set by the decision N 64 of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission of  
15 September 2017 "on the extent of ensuring the fulfilment of the customs representative's 
obligations ". 
5. At the same time, other conditions for including a juridical pers on in the registry of customs 
brokers are provided by Article 28 of the RA Law "On Customs Regulation ", and the requirements 
for the application for registration in the Registry of Customs brokers under Article 29 of the same 
law. Chapter 55 of the Code de fines the rights and responsibilities of a customs broker.  
6. At the same time, according to Article 30 of the RA Law "On Customs Regulation " customs 
formulations on behalf of a customs broker may be carried out only by a citizen of the Republic of 
Armenia wh o is in a working or civil contractual relationship with a customs representative or who 
has been qualified as a customs formulation specialist in accordance with the procedure established 
by the committee.  
7. The same article defines the conditions for obtai ning a qualification certificate for a customs 
formulation specialist. The programs of qualification examinations for customs formulation and the 
procedure for their conduct is defined by the order of the Chairman of the State Revenue Committee G/TFA/N/ARM/3  
 
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  of the Gove rnment of the Republic of Armenia N 354 -N of 13 October 2017. In particular, in 
accordance with the 2nd point of the appendix to the mentioned order the superior customs Authority 
organizes an examination every month to qualify customs formulation speciali sts. According to the 
3rd point of the same order the examination is conducted by the commission established by the order 
of the head of the Superior Customs Authority, and in accordance with point 4 , information on the 
date, time and place of the examinat ion; the questionnaire ; and,  the deadline for submission of 
documents required for participation in them is posted on the official website of the RA Customs 
Service at least 10 days before the examination.  
8. At the same time, after conducting the test in acc ordance with the same procedure, the 
Commission draws up a summary protocol on the test results, to which is attached the list of 
participants who passed the test. The mentioned list is published on the same day on the official 
website of the Customs service.  
9. According to point 22 of the order one working day after the list is published on the official 
website of the customs service persons who have obtained the qualification of a customs formulation 
specialist as a result of the examination fro m the Information Technologies Department of the RA 
State Revenue Committee, they can receive a qualification certificate of a customs formulation 
specialist approved by the order of the Chairman of the RA State Revenue Committee and a login 
name and passw ord to enter the automatic customs declaration system.  
10. According to Part 4 of Article 30 of the RA Law "On Customs Regulation " the specialist who 
has received a customs formulation qualification certificate is trained by the customs authorities at 
least on ce every 3 years.  
11. Chapter 6 of the same law defines the grounds and procedure for termination of the 
qualification certificate of a customs formulation specialist.  
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