Mozhuga, V.V. The WTO standards and legal regulation within the framework of the Customs Union of the EurAsEC: the correspondence issues

Abstract: This article concerns correspondence between the legal regulation standards in the Customs Union of the EurAsEC and the WTO standards. Special attention is paid to the norms of the Customs Code of the Customs Union in correlation with the provisions of the International Convention on the simplification and harmonization of Customs procedures .Additionally, the author provides a classification of regional trade agreements depending on economic and economically related integration of the states. The author discusses legal issues regarding the need to follow legal obligations imposed upon the states by various international legal documents. The author draws the following conclusions: 1. The normative legal basis of the Russian Federation is based upon the WTO standards and it generally corresponds to their requirements. The presence of the bilateral treaties between Russia and the third party states is legislatively required and it does not contradict to the WTO requirements. 2. There is need to bring the terminological basis of the Customs Union into correspondence with the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol, first of all, in the sphere of provisions of the Chapter 3 of the General Annex. 3. Improvement of some procedural norms of the Customs Code of the Customs Union based upon the general principles and standards of the Kyoto Convention is one of the priority vectors of its development.

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