Trade Facilitation Workshop in Moscow 22 Nov 04



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|UNITED NATIONS |EURASIAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY |

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|ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE |INTEGRATION COMMITTEE |

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|UNECE, Palais des Nations, room 437, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland |105066 Moscow |

|Tel.: (41 22) 9171134, Tel.: (41 22) 9171234, fax: (41 22) 9170037 |1st Basmannyi pereulok 6 |

|e-mail: mario.apostolov@ |building 4 |

| |Tel: (+495) 223-90-01 |

|ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC |Fax: (+495) 223-90-24 |

|UNESCAP, Rajadamdanern Road, Bangkok, tel. +6622881390 |e-mail: evrazes@evrazes.ru |

Conference

on Trade facilitation

moscow, 16-18 oCTOber 2006

Draft Programme

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|16 October |17 October |18 October |

|UNECE-EurAsEC-ESCAP Conference on |Morning: training on Single Windows and data |Training on the Harmonization Convention |

|Trade Facilitation |requirement harmonization |(continued) |

|Venue: EurAsEC secretariat, Pervyi |Venue: Chamber of Commerce of the Russian |Venue: World Trade Centre, Krasnopresnenskaya|

|Basmannyi Pereulok 6, building 4, |Federation, Ilyinka 6, Moscow |naberezhnaya 12, Moscow |

|Moscow | | |

| |Afternoon: Training on the Harmonization | |

| |Convention | |

| |Venue:World Trade Centre, Krasnopresnenskaya | |

| |naberezhnaya 12, Moscow | |

The UN Economic Commission for Europe, the Eurasian Economic Community, and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, are organizing a Capacity-Building Workshop on Trade Facilitation with the following objectives: (1) review the integrated approach to trade facilitation (encompassing the whole supply chain); (2) explore the possibility to establish and/or strengthen the institutional basis for trade facilitation implementation through public-private partnership in the EurAsEC Member States and their neighbours; (3) define concrete projects, for example, the creation of “Single Window” for submission of trade information, or aligning trade and transport documents and electronic data exchange with international standards; and review the possibility to harmonize trade data requirements among various agencies and trade operators.

All EurAsEc Member States and some neighbouring countries will participate. The Workshop will involve a range of representatives from different organizations including Customs services, Ministries of the Economy, Trade, Finance, and Transport, business associations and companies in the field of trade, transport, freight forwarding, etc. This would allow the workshop to contribute towards a public-private dialogue on trade facilitation in the region.

9:00 Registration

Chairman: Grigory A. Rapota, Secretary General, EurAsEC

9:30 Welcome address

Grigory A. Rapota, Secretary General, EurAsEC

Marek Belka, Executive Secretary, UNECE

Xuan Zengpei, Director, Trade Division UNESCAP

Martin Marmy, Secretary General, International Road Transport Union

10:00 Session I: Integrated approach to trade facilitation and interaction with business

Moderator: A.V. Tochin, Head, Department of Trade Policy, EurAsEC Secretariat

Regional dimension in trade facilitation implementation on the example of EurAsEC

Vladimir Nekrasov, Head, Department of Customs and Border Issues, EurAsEC Secretariat

Introduction: Integrated approach to trade facilitation

Mario Apostolov, Regional Adviser, UNECE

Organization of trade facilitation in the Russian Federation

Galina Balandina, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation

11:00 Coffee break

Trade processes and the Customs service

Victor Dyachenko, Head, General Directorate, Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation

Trade Facilitation in the Asia-Pacific region

Noordin Azhari, Head Trade efficiency and facilitation section, Trade Division, UNESCAP

The business community’s case for trade facilitation

Roberto Valfre di Bonzo, Marketing Manager, Trade Assurance Services, SGS.

Discussion

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 Session ІI: Single Windows. Interoperable standards for the exchange of trade information

Moderator: M.Apostolov, Regional Adviser, UNECE

UNECE’s recommendation on the Single Window

Tom Butterly, Acting Deputy Chief, Global Trade Solutions, UNECE Trade

Best practice for harmonizing trade data requirements (mapping required data to UNTDED)

William Nolle, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Interoperable standards for the exchange of trade information and documents

Gareth Lewis, Technical Officer, Facilitation, World Customs Organization

The Swedish experience with the Single Window and the Green Corridor

Matts Wicktor, Director, Customs Future Centre, Swedish Customs

Discussion

Coffee break

17:00 Session III: Integrated Border Management through coordination among agencies at the border

Moderator: V. Nekrassov, Head, Department of Customs and Border Issues, EurAsEC Secretariat

Implementation of the UNECE Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Control of Goods in the EurAsEC countries

Representatives of UNECE Transport Division and EurAsEC Secretariat

Economic benefits of integrated border management

Alexey Stukalo, Deputy-Coordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities

Development of the transit potential in the EurAsEC countries / e.g. implementation of the TIR Convention

Representatives from the EurAsEC Secretariat

Konstantin Glughenkiy, UNECE Transport Division

Discussion

Closing Session: The way forward and conclusions

20:00 Reception

Please also find attached the preliminary programmes of the Training sessions on 17-18 October 2006:

Training Session 1:

Workshop on Single Windows and Data Requirement Harmonization

Training for specialists on Single Windows and harmonization of data requirements among agencies and across borders.

9:30-13:00 17 October 2006 (morning only)

Hall of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, Ilyinka St. 6, Moscow.

Trade data element requirements in the Russian Federation. Progress in developing the procedure of a Single Administrative Document (SAD) in Russia and the other EurAsEC countries

Galina V. Balandina (t.b.c.), Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, and representatives of the Customs Services of the EurAsEC countries and

Representative of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation

Best practice of the United States in building the environment for a Single Widow. How were data requirements harmonized and mapped to the UN Trade Data Elements Directory (UNTDED)?

William Nolle, International Trade Manager, US Customs and Border Protection

World Customs Organization (WCO) Data Model, Framework of Standards for security, and data requirement harmonization

Gareth Lewis, Technical Officer, WCO

UNECE / UNCEFACT Single Window recommendations, data harmonization and interoperable standards for data exchange

Tom Butterly, Trade Facilitation, UNECE Trade and Timber Division

Single Window experience in APEC and ASEAN, and harmonization of data element requirements with international standards

Noordin Azhari, Head Trade efficiency and facilitation section, Trade Division, UNESCAP

The Swedish Single Window and trade data element requirements agreed in the Green Corridor between Sweden, Finland and Russia,

Mats Wicktor, Director, Customs Future Centre, Swedish Customs.

The business case for data requirement harmonization

Roberto Valfre di Bonzo, Marketing Manager, Trade Assurance Services, SGS.

Panel discussion

Training session 2:

UNECE/OSCE Capacity-Building Workshop on “Strengthening the implementation of the International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods”

Venue: International Trade Centre, Krasnopresnenskaya naberezhnaya 12, Moscow

Tuesday, 17 October 2006 (afternoon)

13h30 Registration and Lunch

15h00 Opening of the Seminar, welcome addresses

• UNECE, OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE, EurAsEC

15h30 Trade and transport facilitation

• General introduction, Governance and corruption, Introduction to UNECE legal instruments: UNECE, OSCE

16h00 Coffee break

16h30 Integrated Border Management and the Harmonization Convention

• General introduction, Introduction to the Harmonization Convention, including annexes: UNECE, WCO

17h15 Discussion

18h00 Closure of day one

Wednesday, 18 October 2006

9h30 Country reports on implementation of the Harmonization Convention and integrated border management (IBM)

• EurAsEC member states and observers

10h15 Experience of the industry concerning integrated border management

• International Road Transport Union (IRU), Organization for Railway Cooperation (OSZhD)

10h45 Coffee break

11h15 National cooperation measures in the framework of the Harmonization Convention and integrated border management in general

• General introduction, best practices vis-à-vis reality, State-of-the-art procedures: Expert

12h00 Experience of authority in cooperation measures at national level in the framework of the Harmonization Convention and integrated border management in general

• Issues and challenges: EurAsEC member state X

12h30 Lunch break

14h00 Cross border cooperation measures in the framework of the Harmonization Convention and integrated border management in general

• General introduction, best practices vis-à-vis reality, State-of-the-art procedures incl. joint border stations: Expert

14h45 Experience of authorities in cross-border cooperation measures in the framework of the Harmonization Convention and integrated border management in general

• Issues and challenges: EurAsEC neighbouring member states Y & Z

15h15 Discussion

15h45 Coffee break

16h15 Future aspects of IBM

• Concrete issues and scope for improvement in short and long term: UNECE, OSCE, WCO

16h45 Concluding session

• Follow-up: UNECE, OSCE, EurAsEC

17h30 End of seminar

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