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RUSSIAN CUSTOMS

2. How do I import animal skins?

3. I'm a methadone user travelling overseas. I want the correct procedure for exporting a controlled drug.

4. How can I export a Christmas tree to my friends in France?

5. What is today's exchange rate?

6 (continue asking and answering questions).

9. ©© What do you chink about the following":

1. Is it vour view that for Customs modernization to succeed it is essential that new roles and structures are filled by people who are highly competent to perform in those roles and are motivated to make the new teams and processes work?

2. Choose key areas of change in your unit/office/department:

audit

increased automation

client service head office

passenger processing other

10. ©©© A student speaks for one minute (6o seconds) on one of the

©© subjects given below. The rest of the group listen for 3 things:

© repetition, deviation, hesitation. If anyone hears one of these

things, he interrupts the speaker and is asked to continue until he, in turn, may be interrupted. The student speaking within 60 seconds of speaking time is a winner.

Subjects to speak on:

1. Russian Customs need modernization.

2. Making decisions faster is the key to success.

3. At Sheremetjevo Customs, new opportunities arise continuously.

4. Tasks that face Customs officers every day.

5. The customer / passenger is always right.

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