Two-day training course on the topic of "Green Customs"

On the initiative of the Ministry of Environment and with the support of the SRC RA "Training Center", a two-day training course on the topic of "Green Customs" was held on December 8 and 9 for customs officers from the SRC departments of "E-Commerce and Air Transport Operations", "Foreign Economic Activity Customs Service and Control", "Customs Service and Control at State Border Land Checkponits" and "Anti-Smuggling".

and Head of the Work Organization Division at Land Border Crossing Points of the Customs Service and Control Department at Land Border Crossing Points of the SRC RA Lilit Ghazaryan.

and Head of the Land Crossing Points Work Organization Division of the RA SRC "Customs Service and Control at Land Border Crossing Points Department" Lilit Ghazaryan.

The "Green Customs House" topic includes the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the Vienna Convention on the Protection of the Ozone Layer, the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, as well as the Rotterdam, Stockholm and Minamata multilateral environmental agreements. Accordingly, the training was conducted by national coordinators of the environmental conventions Tatevik Kirakosyan and Artak Khachatryan, the Head of the Waste and Atmospheric Emissions Management Department of the Ministry of Environment Gor Mikayelyan, the Junior Researcher at the Scientific Center for Zoology and Hydroecology of the RA NAS Lusine Aghajanyan, and the Head of the Division for Organizing Operations at Land Border Checkpoints of the "Departement of Customs Service and Control at State Border Land Checkponits" RA SRC, Lilit Ghazaryan.

In November 2021, a trilateral memorandum of cooperation dedicated to the “Green Customs” initiative was signed between the State Revenue Committee of RA, the Ministry of Environment of RA, and the Armenian State University of Economics. It refers to all those environmental conventions that have trade-related provisions and require customs control.

In the autumn of 2026, Armenia will host the 17th Meeting of the Parties to one of the conventions included in this topic — “The Convention on Biological Diversity”.