The European Commission grants the EU Border Assistance Mission for Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM) 6.6 million of euro to implement the BOMMOLUK-2 project. The money will be spent on purchasing the necessary equipment for the Customs and Frontier Guards Services of Moldova and Ukraine. This information was provided by General Deputy Head of Moldovan Customs Service Nicolae Batrincea at the end of the ninth sitting of the EUBAM’s Consultative Council which was held in Odessa.

Batrincea mentioned that the BOMMOLUK-2 project stipulates the elaboration of common training courses of the personnel of the four partner institutions located at the joint Frontier Checkpoints of Moldova and Ukraine.

The BOMMOLUK-1project allowed the purchase of the equipment and communication systems for the Customs and Frontier Guards Services of Moldova and Ukraine. „The communication system which was installed on the border between Moldova and Ukraine allows the on-line transmission of information on the goods and transportation units which pass the state frontier of the both countries. This system is going to diminish the possibility of the economic agents to hand in fake documents or to make contraband.” Batrincea said.

According to Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Veselovschi, the EUBAM Mission does not only mean an absorption of information by the Customs State Services of Moldova and Ukraine, but by the peculiarities of these customs services the EUBAM also has to learn something.

The first BOMMOLUK project (Improvement of Moldovan and Ukrainian frontier control) was adopted by EUBAM coordination Council in September, 2006. It stipulated the improvement of the activity on the Moldovan and Ukrainian state borders.

The overall budget of the BOMMOLUK amounts to 9.9 million of euro, including 3.3 million of euro which have been meant for the first stage of the project, which ended in late December, 2007.

About 2.2 million of euro out of the total sum were spent to buy the equipment designed for the Customs and Frontier Guards Services of Moldova and Ukraine.  // BASA-Press



Publication date: 12 March 2008   

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