RESOLUTION OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of September 11, 2025 No. 494

About import licensing

Based on articles 29 and 47 of the Agreement on the Eurasian Economic Union of May 29, 2014 and subitem 1.5 of Item 1 of the Presidential decree of the Republic of Belarus of April 5, 2016 "About state regulation of foreign trade activity" the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus DECIDES: No. 124

1. Determine that under the one-time licenses granted by the Ministry of anti-monopoly regulation and trade (further respectively – licenses, MARCH) in coordination with the Industry ministry (further – the Ministry of Industry) according to the procedure, similar established by Rules of issue of the licenses and import permits and (or) commodity import included in the single inventory to which measures of non-tariff regulation in trade with the third countries approved by the Decision of Council of the Eurasian economic commission of November 24, 2023 No. 125, are applied import is performed:

to the Republic of Belarus from state members of the Eurasian Economic Union (further – EEU) goods according to appendix (further – goods);

because of limits of customs area of EEU to the Republic of Belarus from the states which are not state members of EEU, goods in case of their room under customs procedures of release for internal consumption (except for rooms under customs procedure of release for internal consumption for the purpose of completion of action of customs procedure of free customs zone), conversions on customs area, conversions for internal consumption and free customs zone.

2. Action of Item 1 of this resolution does not extend to goods:

moved within the international transit carriages which are beginning and coming to an end outside the territory of the Republic of Belarus;

their origins coming from state members of EEU on condition of confirmation by the certificate of origin of the ST-1 form or the certificate of origin of other form * or included in the Eurasian register of manufactured goods of state members of EEU;

imported as foreign free aid.

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* The certificate of other form is understood as the certificate of origin of general form, certificates of origin of the CT-2, ST-3 or EAV forms.

3. The legal entity, the individual entrepreneur (further – the interested person) for receipt of the license for commodity importation address in MARCH with submission of the following documents:

the application on licensing for commodity importation issued according to appendix No. 1 to Rules of issue of the licenses and import permits and (or) commodity import included in the single inventory to which measures of non-tariff regulation in trade with the third countries are applied (further – the statement);

the electronic copy of the application in the format determined according to the legislation of the Republic of Belarus in case of filing of application on paper;

copies of the agreement (contract), appendices and (or) amendments to it;

the copy of the document on registration in tax authority or about state registration;

the document on payment of the state fee for licensing for commodity importation (it is not represented if the state fee was paid by means of payment system in single settlement information space).

4. The documents specified in Item 3 of this resolution (further if other is not provided, – documents), are represented in MARCH during acceptance of the interested person, or by means of mail service, or the courier (courier).

5. Documents within five working days from the date of their receipt in MARCH go (with use of the protected systems of electronic communication or by means of interdepartmental information systems) to the Ministry of Industry for review of licensing for commodity importation.

6. The Ministry of Industry within five working days from the date of receipt of documents from MARCH performs approval of licensing for commodity importation or directs to the specified time in MARCH motivated refusal in approval of issue of such license.

Approval of licensing for commodity importation is performed by putting down on the statement of the signature of person authorized on approval and impress of a seal of the Ministry of Industry.

The basis for refusal of the Ministry of Industry in approval of licensing for commodity importation is the possibility of use and (or) purchase of goods of the Belarusian origin, similar imported.

7. MARCH refuses licensing for commodity importation in cases:

availability of incomplete or unreliable information in documents;

non-compliance with requirements to document creation;

the terminations or suspensions of action of one or several documents forming the basis for licensing for commodity importation;

violations of the international obligations of state members of EEU which can come owing to agreement performance (contract) for which realization the license for commodity importation is requested;

provided in article 25 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus of October 28, 2008 No. 433-Z "About bases of ministerial procedures";

receipts of refusal of the Ministry of Industry in approval of licensing for commodity importation.

8. To the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to notify the Eurasian economic commission on introduction of the measure of non-tariff regulation specified in Item 1 of this resolution.

9. To the State Customs Committee:

take measures for control of commodity importation according to the paragraph third Item 1 of this resolution;

monthly to the 25th following reporting to provide in electronic form to the Ministry of Industry data on the amounts of commodity importation placed under customs procedures of release for internal consumption (except for rooms under customs procedure of release for internal consumption for the purpose of completion of action of customs procedure of free customs zone), conversions on customs area, the conversions for internal consumption and free customs zone and also imported from other state members of EEU concerning which customs authorities register statistical declarations, for the purpose of carrying out the analysis of observance of paragraph two of Item 1 of this resolution.

10. This resolution becomes effective in the following procedure:

Item 8 and this Item – from the date of adoption of this resolution;

other provisions of this resolution – in month after its official publication.

This resolution is effective within seven months after its official publication.

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