Article 215. Grounds and terms for conducting a customs examination

The grounds for conducting a customs examination are as follows:

formal application from officials of customs authorities to conduct a customs examination;

the decision of the official of the body conducting the pre-investigation investigation, the inquiry officer, the investigator, the prosecutor or the judge, the court ruling.

Customs examination shall be conducted in the following circumstances:

during implementation of customs control in the process of customs clearance of goods;

making a preliminary decision on classification of goods according to the Commodity nomenclature of foreign economic activity of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

presence of confirmed facts of violation of customs legislation.

The customs examination shall be conducted in the customs authorityʼs premises or in other locations if it is required due to the nature of the study or impossibility of delivering the object of examination to the premises of the customs authority.

When customs legislation is violated, period for conducting a customs examination shall not exceed thirty days.

The following criteria should be considered in determining customs examination complexity:

number of objects (more than three objects or more than two hundred sheets of case materials submitted for research);

number of posed questions (over three questions requiring research);

need to use labor-intensive methods and complex tools, with process procedure that exceed five working days, in conducting experiments to address the posed matters;

need to develop new analytical models and private research methods to address the subject issues;

treating an examination as a single-discipline, complex or repeated examination;

need to go to the location of customs inspection of objects located outside the territory of the customs laboratory or conduct research at other institutions;

need to involve experts from other organizations and expert institutions.

Examination implementation period shall be determined per the following four categories of customs examinations based on their complexity level:

first category — examinations that do not have any degree of complexity, it takes up to three working days to complete them;