Ukraine, Hungary start exchange of information on vehicles, goods transported across border

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published Oct. 2, 2018 at 11:16 am

A Hungarian soldier patrols at the Hungarian border fence at the Tompa border station transit zone on April 6, 2017 as the Hungarian Interior Minister Sandor Pinter (not pictured) presents the camp to the media. The migrant transit complex on the Hungarian side of the border has been expanded to become one of two new detention centers for asylum seekers in the Hungarian transit zone and contains shipping containers that are used to automatically detain migrants in the transit zone while their claims are investigated.

Photo by AFP

Ukraine and Hungary from October 1 introduced the exchange of information on vehicles and goods transported across the state border, according to the website of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.

“The protocol between the customs authorities of the State Fiscal Service and the National Tax and Customs Administration of Hungary on cooperation in exchange of information via e-mail about vehicles moving across the Ukrainian-Hungarian state border began to operate from October 1,” the report says.

The service said the departments will use e-mail with message protection.

“The system of information exchange will allow creating risk profiles to compare information about goods and vehicles that departed from Hungary and enter Ukraine according to such indicators as the number and range of goods,” it said.

At the same time, the department believes that the system will not only speed up customs control but also allow tracking unscrupulous foreign economic activity subjects.