Customs Union auditing agencies examining distribution of import duties

         Auditing agencies of Belarus, Russia, and Kazakhstan are examining the financial control over the observance of the agreement on establishing and applying a procedure for transferring and distributing import customs duties in the Customs Union. Experts will stay in Minsk till 11 September. After that similar audits will be carried out in Moscow and Astana for one month. The audits are part of the joint measures carried out by the Council of chiefs of supreme financial control agencies of the CIS states. These measures are part of the plan for the Council’s work in 2012-2013. Performance of the CIS agency in the last 12 months, the expert group on key national indicators, and the group on working out state financial auditing standards was discussed at the session of the Council of chiefs of supreme financial control agencies of the CIS states in Astana. Chairman of the State Control Committee of Belarus Alexander Yakobson delivered a report at the session. Alexander Yakobson told colleagues about procedures used to control the performance of the agribusiness industry in Belarus, the observance of state interests in this sphere, and the effectiveness of using state support.