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30 abril 2019
At the invitation of the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan and the United States’ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), co-organizers of the 36th International Drug Enforcement Conference (IDEC), Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, WCO Deputy Secretary General, attended this event held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 15 to 17 April 2019.
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30 abril 2019
Following a request from Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA), the World Customs Organization (WCO) conducted a five- day Integrity Diagnostic & Strategy Advisory Support mission from 25 to 29 March 2019 in Kingston, Jamaica.
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29 abril 2019
The World Customs Organization (WCO) provided technical assistance to Chilean Customs to implement and improve its AEO programme from 1 to 4 April, 2019.
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29 abril 2019
The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the European Union (EU) are partners in a new project called “COLIBRI”, which aims to step up international coordination and efforts with the main aim of combating organized crime and the challenges raised by cocaine trafficking in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as in West and Central Africa.
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29 abril 2019
The WCO Security Programme conducted a national Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) training workshop in Kingston, Jamaica from 1-4 April 2019.
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26 abril 2019
At the invitation of Mr. Ruslan Davydov, First Deputy Head of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation, acting in his capacity as Vice-Chair of the WCO Europe region, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended the Europe Region Heads of Customs Conference in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, on 25 and 26 April 2019
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26 abril 2019
Around 30 experts from Member Customs Administrations, regional and international organizations gathered in Amman, Jordan from 23 to 25 April 2019 for a transit workshop for the WCO North of Africa, Near and Middle East (MENA) region.
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26 abril 2019
Within the framework of EU-WCO Programme for HS in Africa, funded by the European Union, the WCO conducted a diagnostic mission to support the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) in its efforts to accede to the Harmonized System (HS) Convention.
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26 abril 2019
As part of its ongoing In Strategic Trade Control Enforcement (STCE) Programme the WCO Security Programme delivered two national training workshops, one in Rabat, Morocco, and another in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. March 2019.
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25 abril 2019
Select WCO Members and key stakeholders came together to mark the occasion of the introduction of the Anti-Corruption and Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme for Customs at the 10th session of the World Customs Organization (WCO) Capacity Building Committee (CBC) and 18th session of the Integrity Sub-Committee (ISC), held from 8 to 12 April 2019 in Brussels.
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25 abril 2019
The 21st Meeting of the SAFE Working Group (SWG) was held from 16 to 18 April 2019 at the WCO headquarters in Brussels.
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17 abril 2019
At the invitation of Mr. Almaz Onolbekov, Chairman of the State Customs Service of the Kyrgyz Republic, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended the opening of the WCO Regional Training Centre (RTC) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, from 14 to 16 April 2019.
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17 abril 2019
In March 2019, Katarzyna Banaszek, Head of the RILO ECE in Warsaw/Poland, and Daniela Dettmann, Head of the RILO WE in Cologne/Germany, were invited by the Romanian EU presidency to inform the CCWP Experts Group on their regional activities and involvement in WCO operations.
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17 abril 2019
The World Customs Organization (WCO), under the sponsorship of the Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF) of Korea, organized a Revenue Package National Workshop for the Eswatini Revenue Authority (SRA) on the development of an Advance Ruling System for Classification, Origin and Valuation.
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16 abril 2019
The Private Sector Consultative Group (PSCG) met at WCO Headquarters on 15 and 16 April 2019. The meeting began with a status update on developments from the Working Group on E-Commerce. The PSCG looks forward to the discussions of this work by the Policy Commission and Council, and to the next steps.
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16 abril 2019
Due to the support of Japanese Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF) a regional Security Workshop for law enforcement officers of the MENA region was conducted by WCO experts from April 1-4 2019.
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16 abril 2019
As part of Capacity Building, WCO organized a Leadership and Management Development (LMD) Workshop from 03 to 14 March 2019 for 20 senior managers from the Egyptian customs authority (ECA), in Alexandria, Egypt.
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15 abril 2019
The 10th Session of the WCO Capacity Building Committee (CBC) was held in Brussels from 8 to 10 April 2019, under the theme “Reflecting on the Past, Embracing the Future”. This Session was particularly important as it commemorated the decade mark since the first CBC was held back in 2010.
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15 abril 2019
Coinciding with the 22nd ratification of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), in cooperation with the African Union Commission (AUC), held the first ever International Quality Infrastructure (QI) Forum on 4 April 2019.
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12 abril 2019
The WCO conducted between 25 and 27 March a Workshop for Officials of Montenegro Customs on Customs valuation and the use of a valuation database as a risk assessment tool.
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11 abril 2019
The World Customs Organization (WCO), in cooperation with the Russia Federal Customs, organized a Sub-regional Workshop on Time Release Study (TRS) for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Members from 1 to 5 April 2019, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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11 abril 2019
The fourth Meeting of the WCO Working Group on the Comprehensive Review of the Revised Kyoto Convention (WGRKC) was held at the WCO Headquarters in Brussels from 3 to 5 April 2019.
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10 abril 2019
From 25-29 March 2019, the WCO held a Workshop on Single Window (SW) environment in Kingston, Jamaica, hosted Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) and supported by WCO-HMRC-UNCTAD Project.
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09 abril 2019
At the request of Niger’s General Directorate of Customs and using funding it provided, the World Customs Organization (WCO) conducted a Train-the-Trainer Workshop on competency-based training techniques in Niamey (Niger) from 25 March to 1 April 2019.
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08 abril 2019
The WCO Secretary General, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya and the Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) of India, Mr. Pranab Kumar Das met on 8 April 2019 to mark the establishment of the Indian Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF India).
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08 abril 2019
At the invitation of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the WCO participated in the UNCTAD eCommerce Week held from 1 to 5 April 2019.
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05 abril 2019
From 24 to 28 March, 15 WCO Members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met to discuss and begin development of an ECOWAS customs integrity framework in Accra, Ghana.
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02 abril 2019
On Friday 22 March 2019 in Côte d’Ivoire, the interconnectivity project launch meeting took place for the IT systems of the Customs administrations of the Member States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
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02 abril 2019
Following a request from Tunisian Customs, a WCO team conducted a diagnostic mission in Tunis, from 4 to 8 March 2019, to assess the Customs training system.
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02 abril 2019
A four-day training programme on the Prevention of Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Heritage (PITCH), organized by the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) with the support of the Border Management Unit of the OSCE Project Office in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, drew to a close on Monday 29 March 2019.
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02 abril 2019
The World Customs Organization (WCO), with financial support from the Finland Project II for ESA, organized a National Workshop on Rules of Origin for Angola Customs.
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02 abril 2019
At the invitation of General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China (GACC), the WCO participated in the inaugural ceremony of the WCO Asia-Pacific Regional Training Centre in Xiamen on 19 March, 2019.
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02 abril 2019
The WCO, in cooperation with the Hungarian National Tax and Customs Authority (NTCA) and with the financial support of the Korea Customs Cooperation Fund (CCF Korea), organized a regional workshop on cross-border E-Commerce for the Europe region from 26 to 29 March 2019 at the Regional Training Centre in Budapest, Hungary.
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01 abril 2019
Customs officials from 18 Middle East and North of Africa (MENA) Region countries met in Muscat, Oman from 24 to 28 March 2019, to discuss the capacity building needs and share knowledge and experience with regard to the modernisation initiatives of Customs administrations.
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