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July 7, 2022

Ukraine is heading towards customs visa-free – the EU-CTC Working Group on Common Transit and the Simplifications of Formalities in Trade in Goods recommends to the join Committees to invite Ukraine to the Convention on the common transit procedure and the Convention on the simplification of formalities in trade in goods.

Ukraine is invited to the Convention on the common transit procedure and the Convention on the simplification of formalities in trade in goods. This is the result of consideration of the conclusions of the final monitoring mission of the EU, which took place on June 23-24, 2022.

June 24, 2022

An official opinion on the possibility of Ukraine’s joining the Convention on a Common Transit Procedure is expected in July, according to DG TAXUD

The final assessment mission of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD) has completed its assessment of Ukraine’s readiness to accede to the Convention on a Common Transit Procedure and the Convention on the Simplification of Formalities in Goods and the possibility to apply the NCTS internationally.

June 16, 2022

EU4PFM provides the best ad hoc IT solutions needed for security of customs infrastructure during the wartime

With the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the problems of security of customs IT infrastructure and modern equipment for its provision became especially acute.

June 9, 2022

EU4PFM supports the Ministry of Finance during a full-scale war

Today, the uninterrupted work of the Ministry is of greatest importance, as both the well-being of every Ukrainian and the state of the economy as a whole depend on it. That is why there is a need to secure the Ministry's critical data so that nothing could destroy it. To this end, the EU4PFM project provides the Ministry of Finance with servers, network equipment and data storage systems. The new equipment will help to organise an additional backup storage platform.

Apart from this, the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine recently received 200 laptops and 300 Microsoft 365 licences from the EU4PFM. The equipment was already delivered to employees of the Ministry, who were forced to flee their homes. This will help them work remotely and contribute to Ukraine’s victory.

The assistance was made possible thanks to the financial support of the European Union in Ukraine within the framework of the EU Public Finance Management Support Programme for Ukraine (EU4PFM). Further aid to Ukraine will be provided over the next weeks.

In general, the EU supports Ukraine with emergency Macrofinancial Assistance, amounting to €1.2 billion, and €2 billion has already been allocated to support Ukraine's defence through the European Peace Facility.

June 3, 2022

Ukraine starts developing software to implement the EU’s latest IT customs transit system

The State Customs Service with the help and support of EU4PFM has signed a contract for the development of national transit system software compatible with NCTS Phase 5.

May 23, 2022

EU4PFM has been supporting Ukraine since 2018 – and is continuing to do so during the war

Russia’s military aggression and subsequent introduction of martial law had a substantial impact on the public finance management in Ukraine in general and the EU4PFM activities in particular.

February 21, 2022

Experience of EU4PFM and partner institutions in institutional development and human resource management reform

The EU4PFM project has been cooperating with partner institutions in the area of public finance management in Ukraine in human resource management and institutional development for about two years.

February 15, 2022

Market Consultations on the Procurement of IT-solution for the State Tax Service of Ukraine.

Public Institution Central Project Management Agency (CPMA) (Republic of Lithuania) is planning to procure services on the development of the Subsystem “Automatic Exchange of Tax Information” as part of the ITS “International Automatic Exchange of Information” (hServices). The final owner and beneficiary of the Services is State Tax Service of Ukraine.

February 15, 2022

NCTS Support Service: Experience of European experts is considered under the Convention on a Common Transit Procedure

Feb 10, a remote seminar on “Setting up and functioning of the national support service for trans-European customs systems” for the specialists of the State Customs Service, responsible for the work of the Ukrainian NCTS Support Service.

February 9, 2022

Results 2021: TOP-5 Achievements in Human resource management

The EU4PFM project has summed up the results of activities in 2021.

The TOP-5 results in each area of the project's cooperation in the PFM field with partner institutions in Ukraine: the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, the State Tax Service of Ukraine, the State Customs Service of Ukraine, and the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine prepared for a public audience.