14 June 2002
Customs chiefs to meet in Brest on June 17

 Aleksandr Shpilevsky, chairman of Belarus' State Customs Committee (SCC), and his Russian counterpart, Mikhail Vanin, will cochair a June 17 meeting of the Board of the Customs Committee of Belarus and Russia.
The Board will meet in Brest to discuss the results of last year's joint
operations, preventive and other measures to be taken this year, procedures for exchanging information about customs violations in Belarus and Russia, as well as training courses for Belarusians at the Russian Customs Academy, SCC press secretary Yelena Khalikova told BelaPAN.
On the same day, Brest will host the 16th meeting of the Council of Customs Chiefs of the Eurasian Economic Community (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan). The agenda includes measures to harmonize collection procedures for customs dues and taxes, automated information exchange, and the member states' progress in adopting new Customs Codes, the press secretary said.