Regional training seminar on best practices at border crossings

This seminar will provide training on issues covered by the OSCE-UNECE Handbook of Best Practices at Border Crossings: A Trade and Transport Facilitation Perspective.  It will gather mid-, and senior-ranking customs officials and representatives of  trade and transport ministries from countries in Central Asia, the South Caucasus and Eastern Europe as well as from Afghanistan. The working languages will be English, Russian and Dari, with simultaneous interpretation provided.

The seminar aims to accomplish two main objectives:

• To provide training on issues covered by the OSCE-UNECE Handbook, including: the trade and customs international legal framework; co-operation among customs and other border agencies domestically as well as internationally; balancing security with trade and transport facilitation and developing partnerships with private industry; processing of freight (policies for control, clearance and transit); risk management and selectivity and measuring border agency performance.
• To identify areas and gaps that require national, tailor-made follow-up capacity-building activities.

On the last day of the seminar the participants will visit the Tajik-Afghan border crossing point at the Nizhny Panj.

All documents from the event will be published on this page.

Contacts

For substantive issues:  Roel Janssens, Economic Adviser, Economic Governance Unit, Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, tel: +43 1 514 36 6221, email: roel.janssens@osce.org

For administrative issues: Mustafo Mamadnazarov, National Administrative Officer, OSCE Border Management Staff College, tel: +992 918 67-70-41, email: mustafo.mamadnazarov@osce.org