Decision of the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Belarus № 100 validating the Instruction on the Control, Storage, Preliminary Estimation and Transmission for Realization or other Use of Goods, Transport Facilities and other Subjects, Withdrawn, Arrested, Detained, Taken for Temporary Keeping by Customs Organs of the Republic of Belarus or in Respect to which is Issued a Customs Permission for the Use of Goods in the Customs Mode of Refusal from the Goods in Favour of the State.

The initial registration of seized, arrested or converted to state revenue of live and non-live wild animals and wild plants, their parts or derivatives (samples), falling under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, signed in Washington on March 3, 1973 (CITES), shall be carried out by customs in the manner established by this Instruction. A preliminary assessment of samples shall be carried out by customs officials in accordance with the taxonomic (systematic) categories of wild animals and wild plants according to the rates for determining the amount of compensation for damage caused to the environment by natural persons and legal entities as a result of the illegal seizure or destruction of wild animals and the harmful impact on their habitat. In the absence of rates for individual categories of wild animals and wild plants, a preliminary assessment shall be carried out in accordance with the materials of the CITES Secretariat or on the basis of current free (market) prices. After registering the samples, the customs authorities shall ensure that an application is submitted to the bodies implementing state control in the field of plant protection or the bodies implementing state veterinary supervision for an examination in accordance with the current legislation. As soon as possible from the date of seizure (arrest) of the samples, the customs authorities shall notify the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection about this. The notification shall include the following information: (a) the name of the biological species of the sample, as well as, if possible, taxonomic (systematic) characteristics (class, order, family); (b) the number of samples; (c) a description of the sample, including size, colour, distinctive features, for live wild animals, if possible, age, sex, colour, identification marks or numbers, if any; (d) information about the sample, country of export, availability of accompanying documents, copies of documents on the basis of which the seizure (arrest) was carried out; and (e) information about the natural person or legal entity from whom the samples were seized (arrested). A copy of the conclusion of the bodies of the State Plant Quarantine Service or the State Veterinary Supervision is attached to the notification.