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In April, Lithuanian customs officers detained a specimen transported from Belarus at the Raigardas roadside post. URAL-375AM destination truck. After the Vilnius Territorial Customs sold the investigation on the transport of this cargo, specialists from the Movement Control Center of the Ministry of National Defense confirmed that this vehicle is included in the list of controlled goods and a license is required for its transport.
The company transporting the merchandise did not present this document to customs officials during the inspection.
And this is not the first attempt by this company to bring controlled goods to Lithuania without the necessary documents: in March, taking advantage of the failure of customs information systems, it imported two mobile power plants on the vehicle’s ZIL platform.
Also, on April 26. At the Raigardas roadside post, customs officials stopped another similar load; Without a transit license, it was intended to transport a KAMAZ-43101 truck, which is classified as military equipment, through Lithuania.
The Lithuanian Customs, taking into account the increasing violations of the import, export from Lithuania or transit through the country of strategic goods, recalls the requirements for the transport of such goods. Violation of such property may result in seizure.
Strategic assets are assets, software, or technologies that can be used for both civilian and military purposes. They are classified as controlled goods, as well as chemical and biological substances that can be used in the production of chemical weapons and bacteriological chemical weapons of mass destruction, military equipment and technology, weapons and their parts, ammunition, explosives. All these goods must be authorized in the corresponding form and issued by the Ministry of Economy and Innovation.
Violations of the strategic goods control regime (transport across the state border of the Republic of Lithuania without presenting them for customs control or avoiding such control or transport without a license, i.e. smuggling) are subject to administrative liability and criminal, the Customs Communication Division announced on Monday.
Lithuania has more stringent control requirements for military equipment than other EU countries.
Lithuania has more stringent requirements for the control of military equipment than other EU countries; Not only are licenses required for the export, import and transit of military equipment, Lithuania has included in the military equipment lists some objects that are not controlled by other countries.
Strategic assets can be subject to prior or continuous control. The prior control is carried out through the issuance of licenses, the purpose of which is to determine whether the end user will legally dispose and protect the merchandise, taking into account the purpose of use of the merchandise, compliance with prohibitions, restrictions and requirements. for goods.
Continuous controls are carried out to ensure that the merchandise (type, shape, quantity, origin and end use) corresponds to the data in the documents presented to customs, licenses, the operator of the merchandise is aware of its characteristics, risks and specific measures to deal with possible accidents.
Under constant surveillance, activities related to the goods may be suspended until the inspection is completed, provided that such suspension does not endanger human health, life, pollution or an accident, or cause unreasonable material and economic damage.
Customs controls on these products, like controls on all products, are carried out in the usual way. If the customs officer conducting the inspection of the goods suspects that the transported goods are strategic and a license must be presented in the appropriate form for their transport, customs clearance will be suspended and the Customs Department will be informed.
Lithuanian Customs is the main institution that controls the movement of these goods across Lithuanian borders and ensures that the export of strategic goods is fully controlled.
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