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Senior WCO Official at WCO ESA ROCB

19 January 2010

Mr Shoichi Asano (Centre) with ROCB Director, Mr John Bisonga (Right) and Ms Kananu Muriuki, Logistics & Administration Officer (Left)

The WCO External Relations Coordinator, Mr Shoichi Asano was in Kenya recently and held a meeting with the Director, WCO ESA ROCB on the progress of the ESA Regional Activities/Programmes.

Regional Seminar on WCO Classification Work Model and Advance Tariff Ruling Service

Mombasa Kenya, 8- 11 February 2010

This Seminar is being organized with the support of the Japan / Customs  Co-operation Fund and will support the initiative of the "Revenue Package". Participants from 22 Customs Administrations  of East and Southern Africa will make presentation on tariff classification infrastructure in the respective countries.

Registration for this meeting has been concluded.

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Trade Facilitation Training

May 17-28, 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden, & November 2010 in one of the participating countries

The Swedish International Development Agency and National Board of Trade is inviting Customs Administrations of Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique,Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi, to send applications for their nominees to participate in this programme before 1st February 2010

Please download invitation and application form here.

The invitation

The application form

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NOTICE BOARD

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Enforcement's Contribution to Risk Management

Delegates are invited to the 29th Session of the Enforcement Committee (EC) which will be held at the WCO Headquarters from 2 to 5 March 2010.

Submission of comments on draft agenda and suggestions for additional topics should be sent to:

ulrich.meiser@wcoomd.org or by: +32 2 209 94 93

Source: WCO Secretariat

“Customs and business: improving performance through partnerships”

26th January

The International Customs Day which is marked annually on 26th January, will this year focus on promotion of co-operation between all stakeholders in international trade.    The co-operation is geared towards greater appreciation of each player's roles,concerns and objectives and is expected to yield mutually beneficial solutions. 

The WCO has called upon all the stakeholders to demonstrated greater commitment to the partnership and' take bold initiatives aimed at simplification, speed, flexibility, predictability, effectiveness and fairness of procedures'.

Source: WCO Secretariat

Information Management Subcommittee

4 -5 February 2010

The 58th Meeting of the Information Management SubCommittee  (IMSC)will be held in Brussels, Belgium from 4-5 February 2010. Officials with technical and background knowledge are expected to attend.

On-line registration system link:

http://www.wcoomd.org/forms/default.aspx?fid=309

Source: WCO Secretariat

WCO DATA Model Project Team to Meet

The WCO is inviting all Customs experts and interested parties to participate in the working session of the WCO Data Model Project Team (DMPT)which will take place from 1-3  February 2010.

Further information is available at this link:

http://www.wcoomd.org/forms/default.aspx?fid=310

Source: WCO Secretariat

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Fellowship Programme

Madagascar and Mauritius from East & Southern Africa will send representatives to participate in the 51st Fellowship Programme from 8th February 2010 to 19th March 2010. The Fellowship is an integral component of the Management Development programme of the Capacity Building Directorate, and prepares participants for top-management in their administrations by equipping them on WCO tools and exposing them to relevant international experience necessary for driving the reform and modernization agenda in their home administrations.

Other administrations with participants include; Algeria, Benin, Cameroun, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Togo and Tunisia.

Please contact the WCO Capacity Building Directorate for more information about the Fellowship Programme.

Ms Benedicte Meille

Training Development Manager

Capacity Building Directorate

WCO Secretariat

Rue du Marche, 30

B-1210 Brussels

Tel: 0032 (0) 2 209 9255

Fax: 0032 (0) 2 209 9496

http://learning.wcoomd.org

Email:Benedicte.Meille@wcoomd.org