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Article 214. Rights of the authorized person in the appointment and 
conduct of customs examination 
When appointing and conducting a customs examination, the 
authorized person has the right to: 
appeal the results of the customs expertise; 
apply for additional questions to get an expert opinion on them; 
be present at the collection of samples or sampling of goods by officials of 
customs authorities and other state regulatory bodies; 
get acquainted with the expert’s conclusion and get a copy of such 
conclusion; 
intercede for fullillment customs expertising. 
In case of satisfaction of the intercession of the authorized person, 
the customs authority shall take an appropriate decision. The customs 
official shall notify the authorized person in writing of the refusal to satisfy 
the intercession within three business days, indicating the reasons for the 
refusal. 
Article 215. The reasons and time of performing 
customs expertise 
The grounds for conducting the customs expertising are: a written 
request from customs officials to conduct the customs expertise; 
the decision of the inquirer, investigator, prosecutor or judge, the 
definition of the court. 
Customs expertiseis carried out when: 
performing of customs control during the production of customs 
clearance of goods; 
making a preliminary decision on the classification of goods 
according to the Commodity nomenclature of foreign economic activity of 
the Republic of Uzbekistan; 
there are confirmed facts of violation of customs legislation. 
Customs expertise is carried out in the premises of the customs 
authority or in other places, if it is necessary for the nature of the study or 
because it is impossible to deliver the object of expertise to the premises of 
the customs authority. 
In cases of violation of customs legislation, the term of customs 

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expertise shall not exceed thirty days. 
When determining the complexity of the customs expertise, the 
following criteria should be taken into account: 
multi-object (more than three objects or more than two hundred 
sheets of case materials submitted for research); 
multiple questions (more than three questions that require research); 
the need for the use of labor-intensive methods and complex tools, 
the technological regulations of which exceed five working days, in 
conducting experiments to solve the raised issues; 
the need to develop new computational models and private research 
methods to address these issues; 
the attribution of expertise to Commission, complex or repeated; 
the need to exit to the place of customs inspection of objects located 
outside the territory of the customs laboratory, or conduct research on the 
basis of other institutions; 
the need to attract experts from other organizations and expert 
institutions. 
According to the degree of complexity of customs expertise the 
deadlines for their conduct are determined by dividing them into four 
categories: 
the first category — expertise that do not have any degree of 
complexity, their production requires up to three working days; 
the second category- expertise that have at least one degree of 
complexity, their production requires up to five working days; 
the third category- expertise that have at least two degrees of 
complexity, their production requires up to ten working days; 
the fourth category — particularly complex expertise, having at least 
four degrees of complexity, for their production requires up to twenty 
working days. 
The list of goods subject to mandatory performance of customs 
expertise in the course of their customs clearance is approved by the State 
customs Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan using the risk 
management system.