By the Decree of the
Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union of May 5, 1964, the Customs Code of the USSR was approved, regulating the state monopoly of foreign trade and the procedure for carrying out foreign trade operations, the movement of goods across the border of the Soviet Union. The Customs Code of the USSR came into force on July 1, 1964. In the late 1980s, with the beginning of the transition to a market economy, the Customs Code became outdated faster than the economic transformations that took place and less and less met the requirements of the new era. Since the introduction of individual amendments to the current code no longer covered the required transformations, in 1991 the Supreme Soviet of the USSR approved a new Customs Code of the USSR, containing norms oriented towards the development of a market economy. The repeated and already successful presentation of the new code took place a month later, in June 1993. The Customs Code of the Russian Federation was approved by the
Supreme Soviet and signed by the President on June 18, 1993. It consisted of 15 sections, 64 chapters and 456 articles. By the way, the Customs Code of 1993 was one of the first major legislative acts adopted in modern Russia. At that time, there was no
Tax or
Civil Code, Code of Administrative Offenses or even
Constitution of the Russian Federation with the latter came into force only on December 25, 1993. However, despite the fact that the new Customs Code was more in line with the requirements of an open foreign economic market, its provisions contributed to the creation of administrative barriers when moving goods
across the border. and in 2001, the second part of Article 247 was repealed for the same reason. The fact that the measures of responsibility for violations of customs legislation were listed in the Code itself did not correspond to the developing legislative practice, whereas in 2001 the consolidated Code of Administrative Offenses in the Russian Federation came into force. In order to increase the transparency of customs legislation, work on a new version of the Customs Code of the Russian Federation began in the late 1990s, and in November 1999 the
State Duma adopted the draft Federal Law "On Amendments and Supplements to the Customs Code of the Russian Federation" in the first reading. Subsequently, the draft law was revised over the course of three years and was adopted by the
State Duma in its final version only in April 2003, and signed by the President of the Russian Federation on May 28 of the same year. The new Customs Code contained 6 sections, 42 chapters and 439 articles. According to experts, the new code significantly increased the efficiency of customs regulation in Russia. ==See also==