Border Agency Cooperation. A Party shall ensure that its authorities and agencies involved in border and other import and export controls cooperate and coordinate their procedures in order to facilitate trade.
Border Agency Cooperation. 1. Each Member shall ensure that its authorities and agencies responsible for border controls and procedures dealing with the importation, exportation, and transit of goods cooperate with one another and coordinate their activities in order to facilitate trade.
Border Agency Cooperation. Call for cooperation between adjacent border posts (e.g., alignment of working times, procedures, common facilities, etc.) and exchange of information/data when requested (best endeavors).
Border Agency Cooperation. This Article calls for members to ensure that their authorities and agencies responsible for border controls and procedures dealing with the importation, exportation and transit of goods cooperate with one another and coordinate their activities with a view to facilitating trade. Such cooperation may include:
Border Agency Cooperation. Article 9 Movement under Customs Control Article 10 Import, Export &Transit Formalities Article 11 Freedom of transit Article 12
Border Agency Cooperation. Encourage all border authorities & agencies to cooperate: • Alignment of: working days and hours, procedures, and formalities • Development and sharing of common facilities • Joint controls • Establishment of one stop border post control
Border Agency Cooperation. 🞎 A Member shall ensure that its authorities and agencies responsible for border controls and procedures cooperate with one another and coordinate their activities �� To the extent possible and practicable, Members sharing common border shall cooperate and coordinate procedures at border crossings to facilitate trade, on matters such as 🞑 Alignment of working days and hours 🞑 Alignment of procedures and formalities
Border Agency Cooperation. This article defines the commitments for cooperation i) between the national authorities working at the border (e.g. Customs, Migration, Veterinary Services, plant health, etc.), and ii) between these and the authorities of the neighbouring country. Current Situation In the scope of SADC there is a commitment to proceed with the designation of ‘border authorities' and coordinated border management, but this process is slow and does not have adequate financing. At this moment, there are weekly meetings of all national border authorities, in Ressano Xxxxxx and at Mavalane Airport, but not at the other borders. There is cooperation between the national authorities, but there is no authority coordinating all the others - i.e., each one can convoke meetings/coordinate with the others in its day-to-day work. There is no specific forum or regulation on coordination, it is simply done when necessary. Regarding coordination with authorities of neighbouring countries, in some cases it exists, for example, for the creation of a single border at Ressano Xxxxxx. There is alignment at all borders in terms of i) working days and hours, but no alignment of ii) procedures and formalities, iii) common facilities, iv) joint control, and v) one- stop.
Border Agency Cooperation. 1. Each Member shall ensure that its authorities and agencies responsible for border controls and procedures dealing with the importation, exportation, and transit of 10 For the purposes of this provision, perishable goods are goods that rapidly decay due to their natural characteristics, in particular in the absence of appropriate storage conditions. goods cooperate with one another and coordinate their activities in order to facilitate trade.
Border Agency Cooperation. The provisions on border agency cooperation are of significant importance to LLDCs to ease trade bottlenecks. Increased internal cooperation and coordination at the border between customs and other border agencies lead to a significant reduction in the delays and costs for traders. Required external cooperation and coordination with border control authorities and agencies of neighbouring members with which it shares a common border will reduce red tape and duplication of documents required to complete border procedures and to clear goods. LLDCs face multiple border crossings, complex administrative transit and border procedures, so the benefits of reducing trade bottlenecks are even greater. However, insufficient border agency cooperation has been a challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. The notification data for rate of TFA implementation commitments by LLDCs around border agency cooperation show over 70 per cent of the measures to be implemented are placed in category C (see Table 7). LLDCs have thus a strong need for TACB support. Table 7: Articles 8 and 11 notification data Category A current (%) Category B current (%) Category C current (%) Category B future (%) Category C future (%) Article 8: Border Agency Cooperation Global 29.4 5.1 1.2 4.1 33.7 LDCs 0.5 5.7 5.7 3.3 76.2 Developing members 53.1 7.0 3.3 6.1 31.5 Transit countries 30.6 3.3 – 10.0 52.8 LLDCs 23.7 3.8 – 0.6 71.8 Article 11: Freedom of Transit Global 45.3 6.4 1.7 7.3 13.3 LDCs 30.7 3.5 2.9 21.5 32.8 Developing members 70.2 10.2 2.0 4.9 11.3 Transit countries 50.5 6.0 3.7 10.8 29.0 LLDCs 43.6 9.9 4.9 20.9 20.7 Source: WTO Secretariat.
