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31 October 2013
At the invitation of the State Revenue Service of the Republic of Latvia, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya participated in an International Scientific Conference on "Sustainable Development of Tax and Customs Administrations within the EU", held on 31 October 2013 in Riga, Latvia. The Conference was dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of the foundation of the State Revenue Service (SRS) and cooperation between SRS and the International Business and Customs Institute of Riga Technical University. The Heads of Customs and Tax Administrations from other Baltic countries, namely Estonia and Lithuania, as well as other international participants attended the Conference.
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31 October 2013
This critical question was the main topic of the World Customs Organization (WCO)’s national support mission to Guinea-Bissau that took place from 30th of September to the 04th of October 2013.
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31 October 2013
As part of its efforts to counter the illicit diversion and trafficking of precursor chemicals used by terrorists and other criminal organizations to manufacture explosive devices, the WCO conducted a Trainer Accreditation Workshop in collaboration with Netherlands Customs from 21 to 31 October 2013.
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31 October 2013
In the framework of the West African Customs Administrations Modernization (WACAM) project, funded by the Swedish government, the World Customs Organization (WCO) delivered a regional workshop in the fields of staff planning, job descriptions and competency framework in Lomé (Togo) from the 23rd to the 27th of September 2013.
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29 October 2013
On 29 October 2013, Belgian Minister of Finance Koen Geens visited WCO Headquarters, accompanied by the Director General of Belgian Customs, Noël Colpin.
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25 October 2013
The Secretary General, Mr. Kunio Mikuriya, held discussions with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania, Mr. Algirdas Butkevicius, on Friday 25 October in Vilnius.
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24 October 2013
Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended the Customs 2013 High-Level Seminar on Customs Cooperation at the Eastern Border held in Druskininkai, Lithuania on 24 and 25 October 2013. The Seminar was organized by the European Commission under the auspices of the Customs 2013 programme in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania represented by Mr. Antanas Sipavicus, Director General of Customs. Lithuania currently holds the Presidency of the European Union.
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23 October 2013
From 23 to 25 October 2013, the contact points of 16 Customs administrations, the Vice Chair, the Regional Office for Capacity Building (ROCB ), the Regional Training Centers (RTC), the Regional Intelligence Liaison Offices (RILOs) and the Regional Development Manager of the WCO Secretariat of the West and Central Africa region met for their fourth meeting in Bissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau.
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21 October 2013
A meeting took place on the morning of Wednesday 21 October 2013 between the WCO Secretary General, Mr. Kunio Mikuriya, and the Director-General of the European Union (EU) Joint Research Centre (JRC), Mr. Dominique Ristori, to discuss possibilities of collaboration between the WCO and the JRC on common themes such as container monitoring, risk analysis and the fight against counterfeiting.
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21 October 2013
A new Customs Laboratory Programme was launched on 21 October 2013 at WCO Headquarters in Brussels, under the sponsorship of Japan (CCF/JAPAN). Six experienced Customs chemists from Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Thailand and Turkey were invited to take part in the programme. During the opening ceremony, WCO Secretary General, Kunio Mikuriya, expressed his appreciation of the contribution that Customs laboratories are making to the overall effort of the international community to secure and facilitate trade and stressed that the Harmonized System (HS) continues to be celebrated as a core WCO instrument for harmonizing international commerce.
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21 October 2013
The Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Kunio Mikuriya, and Steven Broad, Executive Director of TRAFFIC, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the organizations at WCO Headquarters.
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21 October 2013
The WCO Secretary General, Mr. Kunio Mikuriya, attended the 10th ASEM Customs Directors General/Commissioners Meeting held in Vienna, Austria, on 17 and 18 October.
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16 October 2013
Upon request of the Kuwait General Administration of Customs (KGAC), a WCO support mission to Kuwait was conducted from 28 September to 3 October 2013 to help the administration formulate its strategic plan and a related action plan.
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16 October 2013
The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) consisting of Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland collaborates with the World Customs Organization (WCO) in a trade facilitation initiative funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
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15 October 2013
On Monday 14 October 2013, the Secretary General of the WCO, Mr. Kunio Mikuriya, paid a visit to senior management at Netherlands Customs and Indirect Taxation. He met with Ms. Angelique Berg, Director General, Ms. Aly van Berckel, General Manager of Customs in The Netherlands, Mr. Hans van Bodegraven, Director of Legislation and senior members of the Customs management team.
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15 October 2013
On 2-4 October 2013 representatives of the Europe Regional Office for Capacity Building (ROCB) and Regional Training Centres (RTCs) met in Kazakhstan at the invitation of the Kazakh Customs Administration and the RTC Astana.
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14 October 2013
Within the framework of the Capacity Building Programme, the WCO and the Armenian State Revenue Committee jointly conducted a National Seminar on Rules of Origin in Yerevan from 14 to 18 October 2013, attended by Customs officers from several departments.
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11 October 2013
The World Customs Organization (WCO) welcomes the Declaration released on 8 October 2013 by APEC Leaders and the Joint Ministerial Statement released on 5 October 2013 by APEC Ministers in Bali, Indonesia, under the theme "Resilient Asia Pacific, Engine of Global Growth".
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11 October 2013
At the invitation of the Chair of the Indian Central Board of Excise and Customs, Ms. Praveen Mahajan, Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya visited Kolkata, India on 9 and 10 October 2013 to discuss transit and other matters of mutual interest.
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10 October 2013
At the invitation of Juan Ricardo Ortega, Director General of the Colombian Tax and Customs Authority (DIAN), and Gonzalo Covarrubias, Head of the RILO South America, WCO Deputy Secretary General Sergio Mujica attended the opening of the XIth Annual Meeting of National Contact Points held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, on 2 October 2013.
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10 October 2013
At the invitation of Mr. Miguel Espinoza, Executive President of the Colombian Federation of Logistics Operators in International Trade (FITAC), WCO Deputy Secretary General Sergio Mujica attended the XVth International Congress of FITAC held in Bogota on 3 and 4 October 2013, to discuss the impact of logistics and Customs on global competitiveness.
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09 October 2013
At the invitation of the Director of the Department of Revenue & Customs, Ministry of Finance of Bhutan, Mr. Choyzang Tashi, the Secretary General, Mr. Kunio Mikuriya, visited Thimphu and Paro from 7 to 9 October 2013. He met Bhutan’s Prime Minister and other political, government and business leaders in support of Customs modernization.
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04 October 2013
Recent incidents of terrorism and other mass violence against civilians have shocked and saddened the global community. Governments, international institutions such as the World Customs Organization (WCO), and other stakeholders are committed to implementing controls and safeguards to protect borders and the supply chain in order to deter misuse for illegal activity.
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03 October 2013
The WCO Secretary General and the WCO Research Unit participated in the “antiAtlas of Borders” International Research Conference and Art-Science Exhibition held in Aix-en-Provence (France) from 30 September to 2 October 2013.
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01 October 2013
This Programme forms part of the work to develop the management capacities of Member administrations in support of Phase II of the Columbus Programme.
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01 October 2013
The Argentinian Customs Service has destroyed cigarettes from a number of seizures carried out around the country as a result of irregularities including, in particular, smuggling, unlawful possession and counterfeiting. The value of the seized goods is around 20 million Argentine pesos, or US$3,650,000.
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01 October 2013
On 27 September 2013, the Secretary General of the WCO, Mr. Kunio Mikuriya, met the Executive Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS), Mr. Pierre Vimont, who is also deputy to Mrs. Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission.
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