 22 May 2009 | UNECE informed BSEC that the necessary arrangements has been made to hold a joint seminar on the implementation of Annex 8 to the International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods, 1982 at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, on 18 June 2009. To ensure wider participation, the Seminar will be organized in conjunction with a session of the UNECE WP.30.
The Harmonization Convention eslablishes commonly agreed requirements for coordinated border management, aimed at reducing border formalites as well as the number and duration of all types of border controls of goods: 53 countries and the European Community are Contracting Parties to this Convention, including all BSEC Member States. New Annex 8 covers, inter alia, facilitation of visa procedures for professional drivers, standardizes weighing operations and vehicle weight certificate, minimum infrastructure requirements for efficient border crossing points and provisions to monitor the border crossing performance - i.e. issues which are high on the agenda of both BSEC and UNECE.
The seminar aims at capacity building to ensure a more effective implementation of the Harmonization Convention and is designed for government official responsible for customs, transpot and trade policies. As public-private partnership is indispensable for the efficient border crossing operations, representatives of the road transport industry, including IRU and its member associations, will also be invited to the Seminar.
See the Provisional Programme of the Seminar.
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