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    Central Customs Laboratory

    General information

    Activities of the Central Customs Laboratory

    The Central Customs Laboratory is a specialized state institution of the state revenue bodies authorized to perform the functions of customs expertise and other functions in accordance with the legislation of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan.

    Customs expertise is research and testing conducted by customs experts using special and (or) scientific knowledge to solve tasks assigned to customs authorities.

    Customs expertise is carried out during customs control during the movement of goods across the customs border of the EAEU, as well as after the release of goods for their classification in accordance with the Unified Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity of the EAEU.

    By Order No. 163 of the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated June 30, 1994, the Main Customs Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan (hereinafter referred to as the Department) was established.

    In accordance with the order of the Head of the Department No. 50 dated November 22, 1994, the Department of Customs examinations and research was established, whose functions include the examination of goods and the organization of customs laboratories (departments) in customs institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

    By Order No. 129-P of the Chairman of the Customs Committee under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated September 28, 1995, the Central Customs Laboratory (hereinafter referred to as CTL) was established on the basis of the above department as an independent structural subdivision of the Customs Committee with 26 employees.

    In 2000, the relocation of the CTL to Astana was carried out. Almaty Regional Laboratory has been established in Almaty.

    In 2009, Regional customs laboratories were established in the cities of Aktau, Ust-Kamenogorsk.

    In 2012, a Regional customs laboratory was established in Shymkent.

    Currently, the structure of the Central Customs Laboratory is represented by four customs laboratories: in Astana, customs examination departments (hereinafter referred to as OTE) in Almaty, Ust-Kamenogorsk and Shymkent.

    The functions of the CTL include conducting customs expertise, conducting other examinations that are not customs examinations, as well as carrying out individual, dosimetric control of employees of territorial state revenue bodies.

    Research activities of CTL

    CTL carries out the following types of customs examinations: commodity, materials, technical, technological, chemical and other types of examinations.

    During customs examinations, the qualitative and quantitative compositions of the goods, physico-chemical indicators are determined using modern instruments and equipment: gas chromatograph, devices for dispersing petroleum products at atmospheric and reduced pressure (under vacuum), X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, infrared Fourier spectrometer, automatic analyzer for determining the pour point, automatic devices for determining the flash point in open and closed crucibles and others.

    CTL carries out scientific and methodological work on expert activities in the field of customs, expands research opportunities through the introduction of relevant research methods for goods entering customs examination. These are determination of fatty acid composition in oils and chocolate, determination of organoleptic and physico-chemical parameters of alcoholic beverages, methyl esters of fatty acids, chloride salts, determination of iodine number, ash content and sulfate ash in petroleum products, saponification number, water-soluble acids and alkalis, determination of lead in gasoline, determination of mechanical impurities, etc.

    Since 1998, CTL has been an accredited laboratory for technical competence. In 2006, it was accredited according to the international standard ISO/IEC 17025:2005 by the Slovak National Accreditation Service.

    Currently, CTL has been reacredited by the accreditation body in accordance with the international standard.

    CTL operates as part of the working group on customs expertise and expert research at the Joint Board of Customs Services of the member States of the Eurasian Economic Union to develop methodological recommendations for a unified approach in conducting research on goods, for conducting joint interlaboratory comparative tests, organizing the exchange of experience and solving research problems arising during customs expertise.