Investment Council under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic

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Reducing Administrative Barriers in Trade
Investment Council under the President of the
Kyrgyz Republic Bishkek, 7 August 2007
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Dynamics of the Development of Foreign-Trade
Turnover of the Kyrgyz Republic

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Current Situation Complexity and duration of
export-import procedures
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Occurred problems

• Export-import procedures are excessively
  cost-based by number of required documents,
  signatures and time
• Multistage system of control and duplication of
  functions from State agencies

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Occurred problems

• State Control and Certification Agencies are not
  client oriented
• State Authorities dont implement number of
  control functions at the control-check point.
  Created vision of security provision of imported
  goods
• Lack of information for entrepreneurs about the
  procedures of foreign trade activity, complexity
  of the procedures for understanding,
  non-transparency, frequent changes in Normative
  Legal Acts

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Recommendations

• ? Introducing One-stop-shop mechanisms
• At the each level of the agency
• One stop
• At the interdepartmental level
• Common database of the Foreign-trade activity
  subjects
• At the control-check point level
• Single administrative document
• At the Custom committee level
• Introducing of electronic system of custom avowal
  and clearance of cargo

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Recommendations
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Recommendations

• ? Determine the control-check points, bordering
  with countries, exporting goods of high risk
• ? Provide corresponding technical and informative
  equipment, and also the order of the cooperation
  and passing primary sanitary control

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Draft Decree of the President of the Kyrgyz
Republic On Development of State Policy in
sphere of foreing trade and measures on improving
export-import procedures

• Basic directions of State policy
• - Simplification and optimization of
  administrative procedures
• - Introducing mechanisms of one-stop-shop
• - Introducing modern informative technologies
  and new mechanisms
• - Introducing measures, directed at creation of
  regional transit system

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Draft Decree of the President of the Kyrgyz
Republic On Development of State Policy in
sphere of foreign trade and measures on improving
export-import procedures

• Reducing administrative procedures in two times
• Defining control-check points and order of
  cooperation of state agencies in control-check
  points
• Creation of the Council on Trade and Transport
  Promotion
• One stop shop
• Common database of the Foreign-trade activity
  subjects

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