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28 septiembre 2018
The World Customs Organization (WCO) organized a Customs Risk Analysis and Profiling Workshop from 17 to 21 September 2018 in Astana, Kazakhstan, with financial support from the Customs Cooperation Fund of China (CCF/China).
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27 septiembre 2018
In the framework of the UNODC-WCO Container Control Programme, a two-week international operational exercise with the code name “Sports bag-2”, designed to fight the phenomenon of "Rip on and Rip off" (contamination of licit containerized shipments with drugs), was conducted in the second quarter of 2018.
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27 septiembre 2018
At the invitation of Europol, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya visited The Hague, Netherlands to attend the Joint Session of the European Directors General of Customs Administrations and Chiefs of Police, held at Europol headquarters on 26 September 2018.
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27 septiembre 2018
The World Customs Organization (WCO), in collaboration with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) and the General Directorate of Guinean Customs, organized a third sub-regional workshop of the C-RED project (Customs: against epidemic diseases).
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27 septiembre 2018
The WCO and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) led a new C-RED ("Customs: against Epidemic Diseases” funded by the Government of the Netherlands) mission of national assistance which involved several Officials from the Republic of Guinea.
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25 septiembre 2018
The 76th WCO Fellowship Programme, intended for English-speakers, was launched in Brussels on Monday 24 September 2018.
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25 septiembre 2018
At the invitation of the African Union (AU), WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya visited Moroni, Comoros to attend the 10th AU Sub-Committee of Directors General of Customs, held on 20 and 21 September 2018.
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24 septiembre 2018
The 2018-2019 WCO-Japan Career Development Programme commenced in Brussels at WCO Headquarters on Thursday 20 September 2018.
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21 septiembre 2018
The WCO has published the Agenda for the upcoming WCO PICARD Conference which will take place in Malatya, Turkey, from 9 to 11 October 2018.
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21 septiembre 2018
The WCO conducted a Workshop on Developing a National Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) Programme and Validation Techniques from 11 to 13 September 2018 at the Customs Command and Staff College in Gwagwalada, Abuja (Nigeria), with support from the Korea Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF-Korea).
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20 septiembre 2018
From 10 to 19 September 2018, the WCO organized an IPR, Health and Safety Operation on the African mainland. The Operation was conducted under the codename MIRAGE, referring to the deception and delusion inherent to substandard and counterfeit medicines.
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20 septiembre 2018
A team of WCO experts supported the delivery of a workshop on Customs transit for the Members of the Andean Community – Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. The workshop was held on 17 and 18 September 2018 at the General Secretariat of the Andean Community (SGCAN) in Lima, Peru and aimed at enhancing the efficiency of the community transit procedure based on guiding principles and recommended practices drawn from the WCO Transit Guidelines.
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20 septiembre 2018
On 4th September, 2018 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia representatives from the World Customs Organization’s Asia Pacific Security Project, which is funded by the Japanese Government, attended a handover and training session involving the donation of Raman Spectrometer devices.
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20 septiembre 2018
With funding from the Government of Japan, the World Customs Organization handed over handheld detection devices (Raman Spectrometer) to the Bureau of Customs (BoC), Philippines in a ceremony held at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Custom House on 6 September 2018.
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20 septiembre 2018
The WCO Security Programme is pushing its training agenda forward. Accordingly, a national Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) Training Workshop was conducted in Lima, Peru from 27 to 29 August 2018.
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19 septiembre 2018
On 13 September 2018, the second meeting on PICARD Professional Standards (PS) Review was held at the WCO in Brussels.
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18 septiembre 2018
Back in 2016, thanks to financial support provided by the Netherlands, the WCO launched a capacity building project entitled “Customs for Relief against Epidemic Diseases” (C-RED) aimed at providing support to six Customs administrations in West African countries affected by the Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic.
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17 septiembre 2018
The First Meeting of the WCO Working Group on the Comprehensive Review of the Revised Kyoto Convention (WGRKC) took place in Brussels from 10 to 12 September 2018, thus kicking off the work to conduct a comprehensive review of the Revised Kyoto Convention (RKC), one of the WCO’s flagship instruments.
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14 septiembre 2018
Under the auspices of the WCO/JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Joint Project, a sub- regional workshop of the Master Trainers Programme on Post Clearance Audit (PCA) was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 10- 14 September 2018.
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13 septiembre 2018
As part of the programme of support to Burkina Faso Customs funded by the West African Customs Administrations Modernization (WACAM) Project, whose objectives include capacity building with a view to the establishment of an advance rulings mechanism, the World Customs Organization (WCO) conducted a Capacity Building Workshop on the Harmonized System and Advance Rulings for fifteen Customs managers from the Burkina Faso Customs Administration.
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13 septiembre 2018
Following a successful scoping mission aiming at identifying forward capacity building needs to support the implementation of the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA), the WCO is pleased to welcome the Swaziland Revenue Authority (SRA) as the 50th country to join the tailor-made track of the Mercator Programme.
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13 septiembre 2018
As part of Capacity Building, WCO organized a Leadership and Management Top Executive Retreat (TER) from 7 to 9 September 2018 for The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonian Customs. The highest priority was to install a new management culture that focuses on managing more strategically including more openness, communication and cooperation among all directors. The overall objective of the three-day interactive workshop was to strengthen senior management capacity to lead and drive reforms within The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonian Customs and to become a leading customs administration.
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12 septiembre 2018
At the invitation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World Customs Organization (WCO) participated in the 9th Meeting of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on the Prevention of Corruption, held in Vienna, Austria, from 5 – 7 September 2018.
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11 septiembre 2018
The WCO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, attended the 2nd Air Cargo
Development Forum, an event organized by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and bringing together experts to discuss and address emerging issues in the development of air cargo and propose solutions for identified regulatory and operational challenges to the growth and full liberalization of air cargo and e-commerce.
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10 septiembre 2018
The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) organised a joint technical assistance mission for Indonesia within the framework of the UPU’s SECUREX Pilot Project.
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07 septiembre 2018
A second risk management workshop was held from 27 to 31 August 2018 in Abuja, Nigeria, aimed at building the capacity of countries in West and Central Africa to implement risk management and define a related strategy at regional level.
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06 septiembre 2018
Under the auspices of the Environment Programme’s INAMA Project, an Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Regional Customs – Police Enforcement Workshop for English speaking African countries was conducted in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania from 20 to 30 august 2018.
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05 septiembre 2018
In the framework of the WCO-WACAM Project funded by Sweden, the WCO provides support to the ECOWAS region with the implementation of the regional Customs Training Strategy.
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05 septiembre 2018
The World Customs Organization (WCO) conducted a Sub-Regional Workshop on Special Customs Zones /Free Zones (SCZs) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from 30 to 31 August 2018.
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04 septiembre 2018
At the request of the Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA), the WCO conducted a mission with the aim of strengthening the Customs’ infrastructure for Valuation and Classification controls in Monrovia between 27 and 31 August 2018.
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04 septiembre 2018
Under the auspices of WCO-SACU Connect Project financed by Sweden, the Southern African Customs Union (SACU)’s Member States convened for a workshop which took place from 13 to 16 August 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa, to successfully finalize the development of training packages for the SACU Preferred Trader Programme (PTP).
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