On the possibility of recognition of customs examinations as judicial ones
The article is about the need in development of common methodological approach to the organization and in carrying out customs and forensics in the investigation of customs offences. Forensic examination prescribed for the investigation of customs offences are of great importance, because they are of objectively fixed evidence, which can be obtained only by an expert. For the production of expert research in the Federal customs service of Russia, there are subdivisions of the Central forensic science administration. The expert system of units of Central forensic science administration includes directly Central forensic science administration and its regional branches - forensic services, whose functions include performing examinations, including forensic examinations, the tasks of the customs authorities. This article summarizes legislative acts, normative- legal documents regulating the procedure for the appointment of legal expertise in the investigation of customs offences, taking into account changes of the criminal and other sectoral legislation, customs statistics. We give the position of some scholars on this issue. All this gives grounds to assert that it is necessary to create a single database; to develop a rapid electronic communication in forensic direction; to determine the order of interaction of customs bodies and expert services; to develop uniform standards procedures prior to customs examination, with the same inputs developed in the framework of the customs control and in proceedings. There is the authors' definition of forensic expertise.