The Model of Customs Servicing of Public-Private Partnership

Abstract

The article is concerned with developing and substantiating a unified model of customs servicing of public-private partnership with participation of foreign private partner. The research was based on studying the existing legal framework and the practice of implementing public-private partnership in Ukraine, including customs services in this sphere. In the course of research a number of problems related to the customs servicing of public-private partnership in Ukraine is identified, reflecting non-uniformity of the normative-legal support in this sphere. The obtained results of the study allow to systematize the provisions of various legislative documents regulating peculiarities of customs servicing of public-private partnership, with attention to the practice of such projects in Ukraine and abroad, and to form on this basis a unified integrated and holistic vision of the process of customs servicing of public-private partnership in the form of a scientific-applied model. It is determined that the key operations within the terms of customs servicing of public-private partnership are preparation and implementation of customs clearance of foreign investments by a foreign private partner, which are invested by the latter on a contractual basis or as a contribution to the statutory capital in the objects of public-private partnership. Key subjects of customs servicing of public-private partnership are identified; their actions are systematized, merged and ordered in an organic mechanism of cooperation; a logical sequence of stages is formed, which is further on detailed as concrete operations under the common goal of ensuring the lawful crossing of the country’s border to capital and goods.

Keywords

• public-private partnership
• public partner
• foreign private partner
• customs servicing
• foreign investments
• model