5. Article

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.