COMPLIANCE & FACILITATION TRACK
- Data Analysis for Effective Border Management and efficient implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement-
Data is generated by every economic activity, including the movement of goods and people and circulates extensively along the global value chain. Collecting and analyzing data to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of border management is of paramount importance to Customs administrations.
This year, in the context of the International Customs Day, the WCO is introduced the theme “Data Analysis for Effective Border Management” to encourage the global Customs community to pursue their efforts and activities in this area.
While developments in Information Communication Technology and its wider use have made the collection of data and access to open data easier, the real challenge is about making sense of a vast amount of information through proper processing and analysis. This will help customs officers to drive priority-setting, decision-making, performance measurement, integrity, facilitation and compliance strategy.
To optimize its use, Customs need to obtain quality data in a timely manner. Further, there is a need for border agencies to harmonize data being circulated and to develop skills pursuant to the IT challenges. Border Agencies also need to ensure that privacy and confidentiality laws are respected so as to uphold the confidence of the society.
The WCO Knowledge Academy will explore the instruments and tools that support the implementation of trade facilitation and compliance measures from the IT and Data Analysis angle, such as: the WCO customs Enforcement Network (CEN), the WCO Time Release Study (TRS), and the WCO Data Model which supports data analysis by improving data collection and enabling the sharing of data between government agencies.
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Day 1 – Monday, 19 June | |
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Session I: Programme introduction | |
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09:30-10:00 |
Programme introduction and overview
Keynote: Ana B. Hinojosa, Director, Compliance and Facilitation, WCO Facilitator: Theo Hesselink, WCO Technical Officer |
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Session II: The TFA and Data Analytics | |
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10:00- 11:00 |
The Data Analytics behind the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement
Presenter: Sheri Rosenow, WTO (TBC) Facilitator: Theo Hesselink, WCO Technical Officer |
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11:00-11:30 |
Coffee/Tea Networking Break |
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Session II: The TFA and Data Analytics | |
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11:30-12:30 |
Calculating the potential impact of the TFA on trade costs
Presenter: OECD (TBC) Facilitator: Theo Hesselink, WCO Technical Officer |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
Bringing border management stakeholders to the table
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Session III: Stakeholder Engagement | |
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14:00- 14:30 |
Stakeholder Engagement in the Customs Environment
Keynote: Ernani Checcucci, Director Capacity Building
Facilitator: Andrea Hampton, WCO-Norad Project Manager |
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14:30- 15:30 |
What is stakeholder engagement and what are the benefits of stakeholder engagement?
How to collect the right data to make informed decisions and measure success?
Presenter: Severino Dinis, Technical Attaché
Facilitator: Andrea Hampton, WCO-Norad Project Manager
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee/Tea Networking Break |
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Session III: Stakeholder Engagement | |
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16:00-17:30 |
Stakeholder engagement in the context of NCTFs
What are some of the challenges, strategies and solutions to bring all relevant stakeholders on board?
What are some of the pitfalls?
Maintaining an NCTF: A case study from Zimbabwe
Presenter: Hermie George, Technical Attaché
Facilitator: Andrea Hampton, WCO-Norad Project Manager
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Day 2 – Tuesday, 20 June
Where will the future take Customs?
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Session IV: Analyzing E-Commerce | |
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09:30-11:00 |
E-Commerce- · How compelling is the data? · The impact on trade in numbers.
Presenter: Amazon (TBC) Facilitator: Pashupati Pandey, WCO Technical Officer
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11:00-11:30 |
Coffee/Tea Networking Break |
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Session V: E-Commerce – Opportunities and Challenges | |
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11:30-12:30 |
E-Commerce- · Opportunities? · Challenges for Customs · The Dark Side.
Presenter: (TBC) Facilitator: Pashupati Pandey, WCO Technical Officer |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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Session VI: Centralized Compliance | |
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14:00-15:30 |
The Private Sector centralizes its compliance efforts How does this work and how effective is it? What is the effect on trade facilitation Presenter: Carol West – IFCBA (TBC) Facilitator: Asha Menon, WCO Senior Technical Officer |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee/Tea Networking Break |
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Session VII: Post Clearance Audit | |
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16:00-17:30 |
An enforcement tool to facilitate trade How to collect the data before performing a PCA? How to select from all the data the controls to be performed?
Presenter: Thabo Pase, WCO PCA Content Specialist |
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Day 3 – Wednesday, 21 June
The WCO Data Model, the basis for Digital Customs
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Session VIII: WCO Data Model | |
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09:30-11:00 |
What is the WCO Data Model? How is it used? How does the Data Model Facilitate trade? I am not an Information Technology person, why do I care?
Presenter: EU (TBC) Facilitator: Tejo Kusuma, WCO Technical Officer |
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11:00-11:30 |
Coffee/Tea Networking Break |
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Session IX: Data Harmonization | |
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11:30-12:30 |
A prerequisite for establishing Single Windows How to do it? Who should be involved?
Case study from ……
Presenter: Facilitator: Tejo Kusuma, WCO Technical Officer |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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Session X: Time Release Study | |
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14:00-15:30 |
The diagnostic tool for border management improvement
What does it take? How to make sense of the data? A case study from ……
Presenter: Georgia (TBC) Facilitator: Oluimo Da Silva, WCO Technical Officer |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee/Tea Networking Break |
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Session XI: Authorized Economic Operator | |
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16:00-17:30 |
AEO – Business quantifying the value of their benefits
How to become an AEO? Extending the status to other border agencies? Mutual Recognition from the business perspective.
Presenter: PSCG member (TBC) Facilitator: Asha Menon, WCO Senior Technical Officer |
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Day 4 – Thursday, 22 June
Data analysis for enforcement
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Session XII: Illicit Trade | |
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09:30-11:00 |
The ugly truth in statistics
How does the WCO collect the data? The importance of high quality information. What does the WCO do with the data?
Presenter: Anette Bonde – RILO Western Europe Giorgi Kvaratskhelia – Georgia Customs Facilitator: Iwona Sawicka, WCO CEN Applications Specialist |
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11:00-11:30 |
Coffee/Tea Networking Break |
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Session XIII: Presentation of COPES | |
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11:30-12:30 |
The WCO Secretariat will present its COPES Programme which aims to develop and provide training focused on evidence collection and related issues in the domain of investigations and prosecutions.
Presenter: Facilitator: Gilles Thomas, WCO COPES Project Coordinator
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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Session XIV: Counterfeit medicines, a threat to man and animal | |
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14:00-15:30 |
How much money is involved in counterfeit medicines worldwide? Are we just protecting the interests of the pharmaceutical industry or is human kind at risk?
Presenter: OIE (tbc), EDQM (tbc), IRACM (tbc) Facilitator: Viggo Elster, WCO Technical Officer
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee/Tea Networking Break |
Session XV: Partnership – Hunting Wildlife Smugglers | |
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16:00-17:30 |
WCO and other International Organizations working in partnership to halt Wildlife smuggling
What data do other International Organizations have? How do they analyse the data and formulate a strategy? What are the success stories?
Presenter: Magdalena Norwisz, TRAFFIC Facilitator: Roux Raath, WCO Technical Officer |
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Day 5 – Friday, 23 June | |
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Session XVI: Trends in Revenue Fraud | |
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09:30-11:00 |
How much money is lost and where does it end up? What are the modi operandi and what can Customs do?
Presenter: India? (TBC) Facilitator: Michelle Medina, WCO Technical Officer
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11:00-11:30 |
Coffee/Tea Networking Break |
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Session XVII: Small Arms and Light Weapons | |
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11:30-12:30 |
How many are out there? How many cross borders illegally How many casualties do they make?
Presenter: Marcus Wilson, Managing Director, Conflict Armament Research (CAR) Speaker tbc, Group for research and information on peace and security (GRIP) Facilitator: James McColm, WCO Technical Officer
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00-15:30
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Knowledge Transfer Assessment |
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15:30-1630
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Preparations for Practical Day Exercise and Close out |
