First Meeting of the Customs Cooperation Committee

First Meeting of the Customs Cooperation Committee
Urumqi, People's Republic of China: 20-21 August 2002

Post Workshop Statement

The first Customs Cooperation Committee (CCC) meeting was held on 20-21 August, 2002 in Urumqi, the People's Republic of China (PRC), which discussed and created an agreement on a Common Action Plan and institutional arrangements for the implementation of customs reforms.

The CCC is composed of the heads of customs organizations of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program. The participating countries in the Program include: Azerbaijan, PRC, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The first CCC meeting was attended by all the participating countries and representatives of ADB and the World Customs Organization (WCO).

Objectives

The objectives of the Meeting were:

to agree on the broad objectives and scope of the Action Plans initiated at the Regional Customs Cooperation Meeting in Manila in January 2002
to discuss and endorse the objectives, scope and terms of reference under the proposed regional technical assistance grant on Trade Facilitation and Governance, which is being processed as part of a Regional Customs Cooperation Program supported by ADB;
to formulate a training and capacity building program, and a schedule of activities aimed at enhancing customs cooperation over the period, 2002-2004; and· to establish a mechanism within the framework of CCC to implement the regional customs cooperation initiatives.

Target Participants

Head of Customs agency from each of the governments of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and the People's Republic of China.
Senior officials of ADB

Workshop Documents

Contacts

Meeting Secretariat
Tel: +632 632 4611
Fax: +632 636 2424
Email: ergonzales@adb.org

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