5. pants

Equipment and

computerisation

The Customs Board intends that all

appropriate Customs procedures will be computerised. An

Information Systems Strategy for the whole of the State Revenue

Service has been produced which defines the IS organisation and

infrastructure which is required to introduce and support

computer systems throughout the SRS. Any new systems, and changes

to existing systems, introduced by the National Customs Board

will comply with this strategy.

The State Revenue Service, in an

agreement reached with Estonia and Lithuania, decided to adopt

the ASYCUDA ++ declaration processing system. The three Baltic

states are co-operating in the implementation of the system in

order to facilitate the future exchange of data. The system,

which will be implemented over the next year, will provide nearly

all the IS requirements of the Customs Service and will form the

core of the information system. The National Customs Board will

ensure that hardware assigned to the Customs Service is used only

for the purposes and tasks envisaged. It will register all

hardware allocated to the Customs Service, and will introduce

systems of regular stocktaking.