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31 октября 2022
The WCO delivered a Leadership and Management Development (LMD) workshop for the Customs top executives of the South Africa Revenue Service (SARS) from 9 to 12 October 2022. The objective of the workshop was to increase teamwork and individual leadership to better navigate various key challenges faced and as a cross-cutting enabler for the effective implementation of trade facilitation reforms.
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31 октября 2022
From 24 to 28 October the WCO COVID-19 Project, financially supported by the Government of Japan, organized a four-day workshop to assist Fiji Customs in improving its ability to tackle unpredictable scenarios and to review and test Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the clearance of relief consignments, fostering reaction capacity and experience-sharing when faced with disruptive situations.
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31 октября 2022
On 27 October 2022 the WCO conducted its second regional consultation on WCO modernization, this time with the East and Southern Africa (ESA) region.
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28 октября 2022
The 16th WCO/International Air Transport Association (IATA)/International Civil Aviation (ICAO) Advance Passenger Information (API) / Passenger Name Record (PNR) (the Contact Committee) Meeting took place on 12 and 13 October 2022, chaired by Mr. Mohammad Ally from South Africa. The meeting was held in a hybrid mode with 24 people attending in person at WCO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, and 112 online from around the world. Delegates of partner organizations from IATA and ICAO also participated in the Meeting.
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28 октября 2022
The offline portion of the Executive Programme in Customs and Business Administration (EPCBA) Scholarship Programme, with the support of CCF-Korea, is currently being held at Seoul National University (SNU) in Korea from October 24 to November 18, 2022.
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28 октября 2022
The 237th/238th sessions of the Permanent Technical Committee (PTC) took place from 25 to 27 October 2022. The Meeting brought together a number of delegates from WCO Members, international organizations and the private sector to discuss, provide guidance and endorse issues on a wide range of topics.
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27 октября 2022
Measures to protect Afghan movable cultural heritage should be reinforced, notably in the framework of the UNESCO 1970 Convention against illicit trafficking of cultural property and its associated mechanisms.
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27 октября 2022
At the request of the former Acting Chief Executive of the Fiji Revenue and Customs Service (FRCS), the WCO, with funding support from the Customs Cooperation Fund of Japan, conducted a diagnostic support mission in Suva, Fiji, from 10 to 20 October 2022.
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25 октября 2022
From 17 to 20 October 2022, the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) hosted the Hot-zone Prioritization Forum, under the WCO Project OCTAGON, at the WCO Headquarters in Brussels.
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25 октября 2022
On 24 October 2022 the WCO kicked off its series of regional consultations on WCO modernization, beginning with the MENA region.
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25 октября 2022
From 12 to 13 October 2022, within the framework of the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP), the WCO delivered a 2-day follow-up Strategic Planning Workshop for the Customs Administration of Peru (SUNAT), aimed at reviewing the progress made in the implementation of the Customs strategic planning and management methodology.
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25 октября 2022
The 2022/2023 WCO Regional Customs Laboratory Professionals Programme, made possible with the funding of Japan (CCF/Japan) and Korea (CCF/Korea), has held its first week of training, from 17th to 21st October 2022 at the WCO Headquarters in Brussels.
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25 октября 2022
20 October 2022 marked the end of the 3-day WCO Technology Conference and Exhibition held in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
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24 октября 2022
WCO Members of the Virtual Working Group (VWG) on Gender Equality & Diversity (GED) gathered through an online meeting on the 18 of October to discuss further advancing the GED agenda in Customs.
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21 октября 2022
In order to foster the sustainability of capacity building workshops conducted since 2019, the WCO Anti-Corruption & Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme innovated by setting up a series of follow-up workshops between March and October 2022, in cooperation with the Customs administrations of Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and Niger.
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21 октября 2022
The WCO Secretariat has developed a new e-learning course on the topic of the WCO Data Model, a universal language developed by WCO for cross-border data exchange.
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19 октября 2022
Within the framework of the EU-WCO Rules of Origin Africa Programme and in partnership with the German Alliance for Trade Facilitation, through GIZ, the World Customs Organization offered comprehensive technical support to the Customs administration of Côte d‘Ivoire to implement a national system for Advance Rulings.
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18 октября 2022
On 18 October 2022, more than 1 200 participants from 136 countries attended the 2022 WCO Technology Conference and Exhibition conference in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Some 600 more joined the event online. Under the theme “Driving Customs performance with data and technology in the changing landscape of global trade”, they will discuss during the next three days matters relating to the various technologies used to manage flows of goods, people and means of conveyance across borders. In-person participants will also get the opportunity to test and discover solutions and equipment by visiting the Exhibition running in parallel to the Conference.
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18 октября 2022
From 9 to 13 October 2022, within the framework of the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP), the WCO delivered a 5-day technical assistance mission through a Risk Management Workshop for the Jordan Customs Department (JDC).
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18 октября 2022
The WCO held a Coordinated Border Management (CBM) Workshop in the Bi-national Border Services Center of Desaguadero, Perú, from 5 to 9 September, within the framework of the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP).
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18 октября 2022
On 19 September 2022, the Customs Administration of the Republic of Moldova, the Swiss Cooperation Office in Moldova and the World Customs Organization (WCO), within the framework of the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP), held the official kick-off of the Light-Touch Intervention (LTI) in the country.
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17 октября 2022
The WCO Working Group on Performance Measurement (WGPM) successfully concluded it 6th meeting with the important deliverables as a result of joint and collective actions of the working Group members.
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14 октября 2022
The Private Sector Consultative Group (PSCG) held a hybrid meeting on 3 and 4 October 2022 at World Customs Organization (WCO) Headquarters following the fruitful dialogue with the WCO Policy Commission in June 2022. Over 30 representatives were in attendance at WCO Headquarters, while others joined via the Zoom platform to discuss a number of important topics related to the SAFE Review Cycle, SAFE Framework of Standards (FoS) Implementation Monitoring, Trade Facilitation, and Business Resumption.
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14 октября 2022
The fourth WCO Passenger Facilitation and Control Working Group (PFCWG) Meeting took place from 10 to 11 October 2022, chaired by Mr. Paul Campbell from New Zealand. The meeting was held in a hybrid mode with 23 people attending in person at WCO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, and 98 online from around the world. Observers from the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA), the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the United Nations Office of Counter Terrorism (UNOCT) also participated in the Meeting.
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14 октября 2022
From 10 to 11 October 2022, the World Customs Organization successfully organized its HCM Global Conference in a hybrid format , with the theme of Well-being at Work – Taking care of our Human Capital.
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14 октября 2022
On 12 and 13 October 2022, the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Egmont Group (EG) jointly organized the Budapest Conference: a global Anti-Money Laundering – Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) Workshop for Enhanced Engagement between Customs Authorities and Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs).
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14 октября 2022
Under the auspices of the WCO/JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Joint Project and with the kind host of the Zambia Revenue Authority, the third Working Group Activity of the Master Trainers Programme (MTP) on Rules of Origin (RoO) for East and Southern Africa was held in Lusaka, Zambia, from 3 to 7 October 2022.
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13 октября 2022
The World Customs Organization, together with the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), will host this Forum, an annual forum focusing on the identification of sub-regional hotzones at high risk of transnational criminal organization (TCO), money laundering, terrorism/terrorism financing and illicit financial flows.
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12 октября 2022
As part of the World Customs Organization (WCO’s) continued commitment to the fight against environmental crime, the Environment Programme - Sida Project successfully conducted a Regional Multi-stakeholder Workshop on Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) for six member countries of South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda, and Tanzania, in the East & Southern Africa region, from 26-30 September 2022, in South Africa.
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12 октября 2022
From 20 to 22 September, within the framework of the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP), the Customs Administration of Peru exchanged best practices with the Customs Administration of Bolivia on Risk Management (RM) and Customs Laboratory.
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12 октября 2022
The 28th Meeting of the SAFE Working Group (SWG) was held in-person at WCO Headquarters, following more than 2 years of online only meetings.
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12 октября 2022
On 27 September 2022, the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP) successfully launched its light touch intervention in the Central America region with the participation of SIECA, the Swiss Embassy in Guatemala, the WCO Vice-Chair for the Americas and the Customs Administrations of El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
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11 октября 2022
From 26 to 30 September 2022, the World Customs Organization (WCO) delivered a national workshop on the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR).
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11 октября 2022
At the invitation of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, Deputy Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), participated remotely in the 8th edition of MASCRADE (the Movement Against Smuggled and Counterfeit Trade) entitled “Unleashing the Power of Consumers in the fight against Smuggling and Counterfeiting” held on 22 and 23 September, in New Delhi, India.
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10 октября 2022
On 10 October 2022, at the invitation of Mr. Anuntasilpa Patchara, Director General of the Thai Customs Department, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), attended the virtual ceremony to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the establishment of a WCO Regional Training Centre (RTC) in Thailand.
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10 октября 2022
On 6 and 7 October 2022, the WCO welcomed Members to the 18th Global Information and Intelligence Strategy Project Group (GIIS), both in person at the WCO headquarters and on-line via the Zoom platform.
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07 октября 2022
The inaugural symposium of the WCO Symposia series, “Visualising a Greener HS to support environmentally sustainable trade”, supported by the European Union, was held on 5 October 2022. This symposium looked at the role of Harmonized System (HS) classification in identifying goods of importance in environmental policies at the border and was the first event focused on the theme "Expanding food horizons - recognizing agricultural diversity for sustainable global food security”.
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07 октября 2022
On 3 October 2022, the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, and the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, launched the second edition of the WCO/WTO Study Report on Disruptive Technologies.
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07 октября 2022
The World Customs Organization (WCO) Secretariat has formally commenced a small project team for a two-year period to conduct an exploratory study on a possible strategic review of the HS starting from 5th September 2022.
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07 октября 2022
The endorsement by WCO Members of the strategic WCO Charter of Data Quantity and Quality Enhancements in the CEN in June 2021 has been a catalyst for a series of initiatives involving data and technology. Improving the way Customs data is collected globally is the WCO’s response to the Charter’s call for action.
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07 октября 2022
On Monday 3 October 2022, the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya welcomed the eleven participants of the 83rd WCO Fellowship Programme at the WCO HQ in Brussels.
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06 октября 2022
On 26-30 September, under the aegis of the WCO Anti-Corruption & Integrity Promotion (A-CIP) Programme, WCO Experts met with Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) officials to support the monitoring and implementation of integrity initiatives in the area of Customs operations in line with the Revised Arusha Declaration.
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06 октября 2022
The WCO-Japan Career Development Programme (CDP) for 2022-2023 commenced on Thursday 15 September 2022.
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06 октября 2022
From 28 to 30 September 2022, an online workshop was delivered on “Sharing best practices on AEO and MRA implementation and expanding benefits to AEOs”, attracting 80 participants from several Members in the WCO’s Americas and Caribbean (AMS) region.
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06 октября 2022
On 4 October 2022, the WCO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa, spoke at the third edition of the Barcelona New Economy Week (BNEW) 2022.
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06 октября 2022
GENEVA, 4 October 2022 - The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to update the MoU between the two organizations dating back to 2013.
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06 октября 2022
In June 2022, the Portuguese edition of the Revised Kyoto Convention (as amended) was presented to the 139th/140th Sessions of the WCO Council by the Portuguese Tax and Customs Authority, representing the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) comprised of nine WCO Members (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Principe, and Timor-Leste).
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04 октября 2022
RILO Western Europe published RILO WE INFO magazine issue September 2022
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03 октября 2022
The WCO COVID-19 Project, funded by the Government of Japan, organized a five-day workshop in Nukuʻalofa, Tonga from 12 to 16 September 2022 to assist Tonga Customs in enhancing its preparedness to face natural disasters through the drafting of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the clearance of relief consignments.
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03 октября 2022
The 30th Meeting of the Revised Kyoto Convention Management Committee (RKC/MC) was held from 26 to 30 September 2022.
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03 октября 2022
As part of the national work plan for Bolivia, the SECO-WCO Global Trade Facilitation Programme (GTFP) delivered a Time Release Study (TRS) National Workshop from 29 August to 2 September 2022 in Bolivia to build capacities to undertake a Time Release Study.
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03 октября 2022
The Joint Anti-Drug Operation SIREN Debriefing Seminar was convened from 20 to 22 September 2022 in Seoul, Korea.
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