WCO prepared the Customs Compendium of best practices as part of its capacity building programme.

Currently, the Department is in the process of developing a paperless e Customs system as outlined in the Convention.

A customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan is no alternative to Russia s WTO accession.

The Andean Community (, CAN) is a customs union comprising the South American countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Among the report's findings are that, thus far, 181 licensing system and customs training and related projects have been approved by the Executive Committee.

Obtaining finance against stocks of a wide range of products held in a bonded warehouse is common in much of the world.

In addition, seven annual tranches of 41 ongoing national phase out plans, which also include customs training and licensing activities, have been completed.

Small and medium enterprises also find it difficult to comply with the high standards set by international markets, including the increasingly stringent environmental and social standards.

Customs automation must not be limited to the introduction of new ICT but needs to be part of a broader customs reform and capacity building agenda.

The six member Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) initiated a customs union on 1 January 2003 after 15 years of negotiations.

The declarant submits documents (a certificate of correspondence or origin, etc.) provided by authorized bodies in case there is a necessity of non tariff regulation defined by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia.

He noted the importance of duty free and quota free access to large markets for LDCs and referred to debt cancellation and increases in aid as a moral imperative that also matched the interests of all countries.

Negotiations during 2003 and 2004 resulted in the signing of a protocol establishing a customs union among the East African Community members, which began operations in January 2005.

If not, then many of us will find it increasingly difficult to see Europe as anything more than a glorified customs union with political ambitions that are far too big for its boots.

In that view, the primary emphasis in regional integration is on trade liberalization, involving across the board removal of tariffs through the formation of a free trade area or customs union.

A new customs component to a highway project between Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City helped increase the total value of trade through the Moc Bai Bavet border by 40 over three years.

With exception of Yerevan Zvartnots airport, where a two rout system is used and declaration can be done both verbally and in written form, in all other cases physical persons crossing the Republic of Armenia customs boarders shall present physical person's customs declaration in written form.

The Automated System for Customs Data (ASYCUDA) Programme continued to implement a number of technical assistance projects to allow user countries to benefit from a robust and modern customs system using information technology (ASYCUDA ), mainly in Africa, the Caribbean and Afghanistan.

Add a free trade agreement, or even a customs union with Jordan, and you have the makings of a Middle Eastern Benelux (the grouping of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg that formed the economic kernel of what became the original European Community).

Special operation. The customs expert of the Monitoring Group met with the head of the WCO Regional Intelligence Liaison Office in Nairobi, who said that a special customs operation could be conducted in the regional customs territory with the aim of further enhancing the United Nations arms embargo on Somalia.

The five States of Central America were unable to meet the target of achieving a customs union by 2003, but they have harmonized over 90 per cent of tariff lines, agreed on a treaty on investment and services, and established a dispute settlement mechanism.

Annex

log report

Gozareshe Yek Jashn.

A report .

Report of the Secretariat

Right of peoples to self determination report of the Third Committee (A 60 508)

The Robbins Report (the report of the Committee on Higher Education, chaired by Lord Robbins) was commissioned by the British government and published in 1963.

Close Error Report

Updating problem report

Programme performance report

A third of Bangladesh will be underwater by the end of this century. The Maldives and a host of Pacific Island states will disappear our twenty first century Atlantis.

View Validator Report

Validation Report

As at 15 October 2005, all 80 recommendations made by BOA either had been implemented (65 per cent) or were in the process of being implemented (35 per cent).

Report of the sixth meeting

The delay in the issuance of the present report was due to the need to include updated information.

Report of the Second Committee

The report of the experts

Draft report of the Commission

The submission of the report was delayed to take into account the findings of the Chernobyl Forum.

2 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty fifth Session, Supplement No. 46 (A 55 46).

Report of the Government of Ukraine

Report of the UNCTAD Secretariat

Report of the Secretary General