2017 Knowledge Academy
 
 

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.

 


 

 

Day 1 – Monday, 19 June

Session I: Programme introduction

09:30-10:00

Programme introduction and overview

 

Keynote:  Ana B. Hinojosa, Director, Compliance and Facilitation, WCO

Facilitator: Theo Hesselink, WCO Technical Officer

Session II: The TFA and Data Analytics

10:00- 11:00

The Data Analytics behind the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement

 

Presenter:  Sheri Rosenow, WTO (TBC)

Facilitator: Theo Hesselink, WCO Technical Officer

11:00-11:30

Coffee/Tea Networking Break

Session II: The TFA and Data Analytics

11:30-12:30

Calculating the potential impact of the TFA on trade costs

 

Presenter: OECD (TBC)

Facilitator: Theo Hesselink, WCO Technical Officer

12:30-14:00

Lunch

 

Bringing border management stakeholders to the table

 

Session III:  Stakeholder Engagement

14:00- 14:30

Stakeholder Engagement in the Customs Environment

 

Keynote: Ernani Checcucci,  Director Capacity Building

 

Facilitator: Andrea Hampton, WCO-Norad Project Manager

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

 

15:30-16:00

Coffee/Tea Networking Break

Session III:  Stakeholder Engagement

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

 


 

 

 

Day 2 – Tuesday, 20 June

 

Where will the future take Customs?

 

Session IV:  Analyzing E-Commerce

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

 

11:00-11:30

Coffee/Tea Networking Break

Session V:  E-Commerce – Opportunities and Challenges

11:30-12:30

E-Commerce- 

·         Opportunities?

·         Challenges for Customs

·         The Dark Side.

 

Presenter:  (TBC)

Facilitator: Pashupati Pandey, WCO Technical Officer

12:30-14:00

Lunch

Session VI: Centralized Compliance

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

15:30-16:00

Coffee/Tea Networking Break

Session VII: Post Clearance Audit

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

 


 

Day 3 – Wednesday, 21 June

 

The WCO Data Model, the basis for Digital Customs

 

Session VIII:  WCO Data Model

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

11:00-11:30

Coffee/Tea Networking Break

Session IX:  Data Harmonization

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

12:30-14:00

Lunch

Session X: Time Release Study

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

15:30-16:00

Coffee/Tea Networking Break

Session XI: Authorized Economic Operator

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

 


 

Day 4 – Thursday, 22 June

 

Data analysis for enforcement

 

Session XII:  Illicit Trade

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

11:00-11:30

Coffee/Tea Networking Break

Session XIII:  Presentation of COPES

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

 

12:30-14:00

Lunch

Session XIV: Counterfeit medicines, a threat to man and animal

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

 

15:30-16:00

Coffee/Tea Networking Break


Session XV: Partnership – Hunting Wildlife Smugglers

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

 


 

Day 5 – Friday, 23 June

Session XVI:  Trends in Revenue Fraud

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

 

11:00-11:30

Coffee/Tea Networking Break

Session XVII:  Small Arms and Light Weapons

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

 

12:30-14:00

Lunch

 

14:00-15:30

 

Knowledge Transfer Assessment

 

15:30-1630

 

Preparations for Practical Day Exercise  and Close out