EU-RUSSIA DEAL
May 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Russia have agreed to cooperate to fight customs fraud, using EU anti-fraud office OLAF to coordinate "reliable channels of information exchange" between their respective customs services. This would, said a "road map" agreed at a summit in Moscow "increase the effectiveness" of joint operations. Both sides agreed to cooperate on standardising and automating trade procedures "to increase the parties' capacity to combat fraud", using common computerised data systems.
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Russia have agreed to cooperate to fight customs fraud, using EU anti-fraud office OLAF to coordinate "reliable channels of information exchange" between their respective customs services. This would, said a "road map" agreed at a summit in Moscow "increase the effectiveness" of joint operations. Both sides agreed to cooperate on standardising and automating trade procedures "to increase the parties' capacity to combat fraud", using common computerised data systems.
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