For this the training of customs officers is crucial.

a. TProviding training to all customs officers and evaluatingon of their training.

Customs and immigration officials and the police cooperated in training private security staff.

C. Executive Committee report on the evaluation of customs officers training and licensing system projects (decision XIV 7)

Technology and Economic Assessment Panel study on the 2006 2008 replenishment of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol (decision XVI 35) Need to ensure equitable geographical representation in the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund (decision XVI 38) Executive Committee report on the evaluation of customs officers training and licensing system projects (decision XIV 7).

Executive Committee report on the evaluation of customs officers training and licensing system projects (decision XIV 7)

UNEP's training for cCustoms officers followeds the train the trainer approach, which aimsed at ensuring the sustainability of the training through the development of national trainers who wouldill in turn train the other customs officers and stakeholders in a number of national training workshops.

Item 5 (c) Executive Committee report on the evaluation of customs officers training and licensing system projects (decision XIV 7)

Customs Training Projects

(c) Accelerating and assisting implementation of customs training, including regional activities, where appropriate It would be more effective if Phase I (Train the Trainer) and Phase II (Training of customs officers) takes place in rapid succession in order to preserve the momentum generated by the Train the Trainer workshops.

H. Procurement staff training

WCO expressed its readiness to upgrade its global e learning system to include firearms courses in the system to train customs officers and incorporate the firearms contents into the regional train the trainer programme.

Another reason for the delays may be the difficulty in following up on Phase I (train the trainers) with Phase II (train customs officers), in particular if Phase II has not started soon enough after Phase I was completed.

Head of the project to train domestic security personnel.

The Co Chair stated that at their Fourteenth Meeting, the Parties had requested the Executive Committee to consider making an evaluation of customs officer training and licensing systems projects.

Training of customs officers focuses mainly on refrigerants (foremost CFC) while other ODS such as solvents (CTC, TCA) and methyl bromide are dealt with only in general terms.

Most projects which include a licensing system also have other components (register of importers of ODS, monitoring system, quota system, training of customs officers, establishment of an association, encouraging good practices, etc.).

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

The Multilateral Fund Secretariat's consolidated progress report to the forty fifth meeting of the Executive Committee at its forty fifthsixth meeting also states that Finland expects to complete customs training in Panama by December 2005.

They are expected also to prepare a training module to be included in the curriculum of customs schools.

The College's training policy combined know how with specific competencies of many different players, thus contributing to system wide coherence.

Judges and lawyers, as well as law enforcement personnel, should be trained accordingly.

It would be helpful if exporting countries would inform importing countries about licensed shipments and check that the clients are on the list of authorized importers, provided by the importing countries on a regular basis.

The fFourteenth Meeting of the Parties 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 sSixteenth Meeting of the Parties.

UNOSAT has accumulated experience in training United Nations staff and also local authorities.

Training of customs officers and provision of adequate identification equipment are needed to ensure effective application of the import licensing system.

ODS licensing systems and customs training activities were first being funded as stand alone and as regional projects.

Initial customs training of trainers hads taken place now in over 50 Parties, and in 31 Parties, both trainers and downstream users hadve been trained.

The same is true for customs training projects integrated into RMPs and for stand alone projects.

Provide systematic training to all categories of humanitarian personnel on gender issues.

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.

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

Regarding customs training, in all countries visited, the train the trainer programme had been completed, but implementation of the second phase of officer training had frequently experienced delays.

He noted the importance of working with the stakeholders of other multilateral environmental agreements on cross cutting issues such as legislation and customs training.

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

The majority of customs training projects are implemented by UNEP (56), followed by UNIDO (14), Canada (11), Australia (8) and France (6).

Capacity building. WCO suggested that capacity building was very important in order to enhance the arms embargo, as customs officers had limited knowledge in identifying cross border firearms.

More recently, integrated customs training with other related multilateral environmental agreementMEAs hads been proposed by UNEP, and a gGreen cCustoms web site hads been launched.

(viii) Including human rights education in the training for civil servants and law enforcement and military personnel

Assistance should be directed at building capacity to improve border control and at training Afghan drug control officers.

Support provided for officials concerned Training is conducted for hotline officers of the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security.

UNDP advised informed the Fund Secretariat that it plans to complete its refrigerant management plan RMP activities in July 2006, while UNEP advised has stated that it plans to complete customs officer training and training of refrigeration technicians in the Party in December 2006.

To this end, UNAMSIL will continue all ongoing programmes aimed at the training of law enforcement officials.

In former PUSIC held territory, in particular Tchomia and Kasenyi, some Customs officers have maintained ties with PUSIC.

This is an effective method to verifying the license of the importer and to remind customs officers that they have to check the presence of the license with the import declaration.