Federal Customs Service of Russia

The Federal Customs Service (FCS of Russia) is a federal executive body that performs, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, the functions of control and supervision in the field of customs, the functions of the currency control body, the functions of protecting the rights to intellectual property, the functions of transport control at checkpoints across the state border of the Russian Federation, as well as sanitary and quarantine, quarantine phytosanitary control and state erinarnogo supervision as regards the inspection of documents in a specially equipped and designed for these purposes checkpoints across the state border of the Russian Federation (specialized checkpoints), the identification function, prevention and suppression of crimes and administrative offenses