Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) — The pilot project for cross-border electronic document exchange (EDO) of shipping documents between Russia and Uzbekistan has been successfully completed, according to the press service of Gazinformservice LLC (Saint Petersburg).

The project was implemented by the Russian company Tensor and the Uzbek Scientific and Information Center “Yangi Texnologiyalar” under the Tax Committee of Uzbekistan. Verification of foreign electronic signatures was provided by Gazinformservice and the Center for Scientific, Technical, and Marketing Research Unicon.uz.

The main achievement of the project was the creation of an organizational, legal, and technological framework for the mutual recognition of electronic signatures when exchanging shipping documents in electronic form between business entities in both countries. This enables participants in foreign economic activity to exchange legally significant documents electronically.

“This radically accelerates all logistics and financial processes: shipments are completed faster, transactions are finalized, and VAT deductions are processed more efficiently,” said Elena Zagrebova, Head of the EDO Department at Tensor.

Sergey Kiryushkin, head of the certification authority at Gazinformservice, emphasized that electronic documents are received not only by business entities but also by the tax authorities of both countries. He noted that the main advantages of cross-border EDO compared to paper document flow are speed and efficiency: signing a bilateral document electronically takes just a few minutes.