6320 Suspension of issuance of licences

General licensing (point 8 of the matrix)

41 7) were also taken into account.

Licensing Systems in the Countries Visited

Licensing Systems, Customs Procedures and Illegal Imports Detected

Licensing of chemical installations entities use of materials (point 12 of the matrix)

In practice, however, official licensing has been delayed for many years.

Report of the Executive Committee on the evaluation of customs officers training and licensing system projects

There is though no specific legislation dealing with such matters but such activities are regulated and licensed by the Seychelles Licensing Authority. (Extracts of the Licensing Act pertaining to the activities of Casinos are attached).

When provided, the most frequent explanation for delays is related to delays in implementing the licensing system.

Export control legislation in place Individual licensing (point 7 of the matrix)

Dedicated tourism laws can help by drawing attention to, and enabling, the promotion of sustainability in the sector, but of equal importance is the harmonization and communication of other laws that affect tourism, such as labour and environment laws.

Some licensing and training activities are also carried out as part of national phase out plans implemented by the World Bank.

However, certain additional preparations have been made relating to e.g. the organization of the licensing and monitoring authorities.

As can be seen in the overview of PCRs for licensing projects in Annex IIa, little information has been provided on the modalities of licensing systems in place, and most importantly, no information is to be found relating to the actual implementation and effectiveness of the system.

Due to import licensing and customs training, illegal imports of CFCs have been detected and seized in several cases.

The Government has given approval to the import of vehicles by FMLN, but action is still pending on the issuance of the required permits (franquicias).

50 of Project Completion Reports (PCRs) have been received for completed stand alone licensing projects and 85 and 75 respectively for licensing projects as part of an RMP and for regional customs training projects.

The MES is responsible for the licensing and accreditation of establishments of higher education in accordance with regulations of the CM.

The UK national statutory Licensing Authority is the Export Control Organisation (ECO), part of the Department of Trade and Industry.

Comments on the draft were received from Burkina Faso, Canada, Paraguay, Poland, Sweden, UNDP and UNEP and were taken into account for finalizing the present document.

Only 29 of PCRs due have been received for completed regional licensing system projects.

So far 181 customs training, licensing systems, and related projects have been approved.

Report of the Executive Committee on the Evaluation of customs officers training and licensing system projects to the twenty fifth meeting of the Open ended Working Group

In the last 3 4 years, there has been a major increase in licensing systems and customs training projects.

Fishing within FICZ continues to be administered by the Falkland Islands Government, which pays strict attention to conservation requirements in issuing licences.

Professional licences

The main reason for such delays is that it takes longer than foreseen to draft national legislation on licensing systems.

Table 11a Licensing Systems

Table 11b Licensing Systems

Commendable progress has been made in the diamond mining sector, particularly in the area of licensing and the substantial increase in the official exports of diamonds.

report on the evaluation of customs officers training and licensing

It also requested the Executive Committee to consider making an evaluation of customs officers training and licensing systems projects a priority and to report, if possible, to the 16th Meeting of the Parties.

While for India this is already taking place, there is no information whether such exporter importer data exchange is happening also for China or in any other region.

Prior permits shall be subject to clearance

Only 12 projects support licensing systems as such, and in these cases the average funding ranges from US  10,000 to US  50,000.

Licences are only issued where the application is consistent with the Consolidated EU and National Criteria, which appropriately incorporate relevant UK international commitments.

The ECO also provides the interagency review for licences, and takes advice from all other Departments with an interest in licence applications, as such operating on an inter agency basis.

So far 181 licensing system and customs training and related projects have been approved 51 have been completed and 45 PCRs have been received.

Licences are only issued for these activities.

In others, e.g. Sudan, no reference is made in legal acts to such substances, even if the Ozone Office maintained that such goods have to be subject to the licensing system.

The licenses are issued for one year and may be renewed.

I also presided as Chairman of Licensing Sessions.

Table 8 Licensing Systems Projects Approved by Region

Licenses will be cross referenced against the authorities' lists.