Process of becoming of bodies of the government and administration of the Dniester Moldavian Republic in many respects is unique. Their history became reflection of that political situation which has developed in the beginning of 90-th years of the XX century on the postSoviet space. For 15 years the State customs committee of the Dniester Moldavian Republic has taken a special place in economic structure of the Dniester Moldavian Republic, carrying out the important role in the system of state regulation of foreign economic relations, formation of a profitable part of the republican budget and maintenance of economic safety of the republic.

Customs bodies, being a component of a system of law enforcement bodies of the Dniester Moldavian Republic and the militarized organization, are included into the system of the state enforcement authorities of the republic. They participate in the development and direct realization of customs policy of the Dniester Moldavian Republic, provide observance of the customs legislation and economic safety of the republic, to carry on a struggle against contraband, infringements of customs rules and the tax laws, carry out and improve the customs control and customs registration, simultaneously creating the conditions promoting acceleration of commodity circulation through customs border of the Dniester Moldavian Republic, and also carry out set of other functions.

The 16-years history of the development of customs bodies of the Dniester Moldavian Republic conditionally shares on five stages:

- Formation of service (1992-1996);

- Its first reorganization (1997-1999);

- Perfection of the structure (2000-2002);

- The second reorganization (2003-2005);

- The period of modernization of service according to the international standards (2006-2008).

For 16 years the State customs committee of the Dniester Moldavian Republic has taken a special place in the economic structure of the Dniester Moldavian Republic carrying out the important role in the system of state regulation of foreign economic relations, formation of a profitable part of the republican budget and maintenance of economic safety of the republic.

Activity of Dniester customs service began with creation of necessary structures, from formation of the republican legislative and normative base. For that moment customs bodies of the Dniester Moldavian Republic completely did not have infrastructure, there was not neither corresponding premises and the equipment, nor specially prepared professional staff. Nevertheless, the state assigned the important and difficult duties to customs service: protection of economic interests of the republic; charge and collection of customs payments; struggle against contraband and infringements of customs rules.

The threshold of the third millennium was marked by the beginning of new perfection of all its structures for customs service of Transnistria. The given stage is connected with the constitutional reform spent in Transnistria. The structural changes which have followed it have mentioned also the State customs committee of the Dniester Moldavian Republic .

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Solving a task of creation of optimum conditions for activity of participants of foreign trade activities, the State Customs Committee of the Dniester Moldavian Republic realizes it not only by checks and punishments, but by the methods of accounting in the activity of wishes and offers of economic agents. Practice of interaction of the State Customs Committee with the participants of foreign trade activities included seminars and consultations.

Despite obstacles in foreign trade activities from Moldova, the Dniester enterprises persistently aspire to strengthen the positions in the world market. Before customs bodies there is a task on perfection available and to introduction of new technologies of customs registration and the control, allowing to approach to activity of participants of foreign trade activities differentially and to reduce to a minimum time for realization of compulsory procedures. This task is priority for customs bodies of the Dniester Moldavian Republic and is in a realization stage, according to the concept of modernization of customs service.

The events occurring on the banks of the Dniester, cause more and more steadfast interest in world community. This fact does not allow the European organizations to ignore the Dniester problem and further. On November, 14-th, 2002 the expert monitoring group as a part of representatives of the Organization on safety and cooperation in Europe (OSCE), embassies of Russia and the USA in RÌ, the military attache of Denmark in the Ukraine, the representatives of the Great Britain, France, Italy, Romania, and also military department of Norway and even the customs expert of the Netherlands (Ministry of Finance) visited the Dniester-Ukrainian border. Its members have visited on customs check points «the Dubossary bridge», «Novy Goyan» and «Voronkovo». Following the results of the given visit the chief negotiator Timoti Ajlens (OSCE) has been compelled to notice, that infringements on the Dniester-Ukrainian border were not been revealed by the experts.

And already in some days, on November, 20-th, the check point «Pervomaisk» of Tiraspol customs the delegation of Parliamentary assembly of OSCE visits. After conditions studying on this boundary site, meetings with the representatives of the State Customs Committee of the Dniester Moldavian Republic and boundary service of Transnistria, survey of the terminal of the international autotransition, the chief negotiator of members of parliament Kimmp Kiljunen has declared: «All here is organized and functions well.

The basic efforts of customs bodies of the Dniester Moldavian Republic are directed on the decision of a triune task: in every possible way to promote trade development, to collect customs payments and to provide the effective customs control. The questions of simplification of customs procedures, accelerations of customs registration, and also development of partner relations between customs and business are priority in work of the State customs committee of the Dniester Moldavian Republic. For their decision experts of the State Customs Committee carry out close contacts to Dniester production workers, including by means of meetings with an active of the Union of industrialists, landowners and businessmen of Transnistria.

Acceptance by members of the WCO of Frame standards on maintenance of security and simplification of international trade became a major landmark in the development of world customs system. Having studied the given document, the administration of customs bodies of the Dniester Moldavian Republic on advantage has estimated its importance and has considered the principles defined in Frame standards, by working out of the Program of development of customs service of the Dniester Moldavian Republic for 2006-2008. This document confirmed by the Decree of the President of the Dniester Moldavian Republic ¹425 from August, 25-th, 2005, has marked transition to a qualitatively new level of the organization of customs procedures in Transnistria.
The purpose of the Program of development of customs service of the Dniester Moldavian Republic was increasing of efficiency of practical execution of customs procedures on the territory of the Dniester Moldavian Republic, all-round assistance to foreign trade development, introduction of new mechanisms of the customs regulation combining measures on assistance to trade with measures on maintenance of safety.

As priority directions of development of customs service have acted:

- Perfection of technologies of customs activity, automation of all processes of the customs control and customs registration, introduction of the advanced information technologies, perfection of forms and methods of the customs control; reduction of forms and methods of customs administration in conformity with the international requirements and standards;

- Perfection of a supply with information of customs service;

- Development of customs structure and an infrastructure.

Official Tiraspol initiated to carry out the international monitoring of the frontiers during not one year. Dniester invitations since 2003 received OSCE, the Council of Europe and the European Union, but all of them remained without the answer. However in November, 2005 the situation at last has changed. 30-th the group of 70 experts concerning border from the countries - members of the European Union has arrived to Odessa. Their task consisted in rendering of assistance to two states in their plans to modernize the boundary control and supervision system on the Moldavian-Ukrainian border. For Transnistria monitoring of borders became chance to prove to the world falsity of charges of official Kishinev.

Despite tactics of hushing up of all fields of activity of customs bodies of the Dniester Moldavian Republic from the European experts, the administration of the State Customs Committee initially adhered to a policy of an openness for discussion on a parity basis of the questions representing mutual interest.

2006 has appeared for Transnistria the critical regarding formation at world community of positive image of the state. The conclusions made in the November annual report of the Mission of the European Union on the frontier help to Moldova and the Ukraine, have put in long-term slander to Transnistria «europoint» which the Republic of Moldova cannot cross out any more.

The annual report of the Mission of the European Union has been attentively studied by the experts of the State Customs Committee of the Dniester Moldavian Republic for whom recommendations of the European experts became one more occasion to verify, as they say, hours with the international customs community. Despite lacking of interaction EUBAM with customs and the boundary bodies of Transnistria (we will remind, that the Dniester Moldavian Republic is the party in negotiating process and the signer of the Memorandum of 1997), the customs bodies of the Dniester Moldavian Republic still adhere to a position of an openness for the international contacts and readiness for cooperation both with colleagues from the adjacent states, and with the European missions.