customs eastern land border expert team (celbet)
DESCRIPTION
Key issues of EU Eastern land border management Lack of harmonization – e.g. customs border control and risk management Need for changes in current paradigm where every MS acts on its own way Need for more uniform approachTRANSCRIPT
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Customs Eastern Land Border Expert Team
(CELBET)
08 December 2015
Ants Kutti, Deputy HeadCustoms Organisation Department
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Key issues of EU Eastern land border management
» Lack of harmonization – e.g. customs
border control and risk management» Need for changes in current
paradigm where every MS acts on its own way
» Need for more uniform approach
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Briefly
» Countries participating in the Expert Team: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece.
» Objectives are divided into 6 Activity blocks: risk management, operational controls, equipment, training, cooperation and evaluation.
» Result: ensure high quality and agreed level of the controls at the Eastern land border.
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Main objectives of EU Eastern land border Expert Team
Creation of border control standards
Establish common performance indicators for BCPs
Systematic on-site evaluation
Recommendations for improvement of control equipment and working
methods
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Risk management (risk-based selection for controls/facilitation)» Agree on Eastern and South-Eastern land
border specific risk criteria (e.g. hiding places of trucks)
» Collecting data, analysing and assessing risk (based on common methodology), regularly monitoring
» Planning joint control activities for Eastern and South-Eastern land border
» Evaluate possibilities to enhance coordination with FRONTEX
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Operational controls
» Agree and implement the recommended control practice at all BCPs
» Agree upon the used control types and minimum requirements for operational controls (for what purpose etc.)
» Agree upon the principles and intensity of the use of X-ray equipment
» Comparing IT-systems available in Eastern and South-Eastern land border BCPs
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Evaluation / performance measurement
» Set-up of a mechanism for border control performance measurement with KPIs (e.g. define KPIs to evaluate the level of smuggling)
» Establish common criteria for evaluation of efficiency to take management decisions in MSs (e.g. for duration of border crossing)
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Equipment and procurement
» Carry out analysis on the specific technical needs of each BCP and produce the procurement schedule, incl. funding
» Drafting recommendations for coordinated procurements
» Analyse if ANPRS and BAXE (Baltic States X-ray Exchange) could be used in all Eastern land border BCPs
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Cooperation
» Analyse ways to enhance exchange of information between customs and BG for managing risk and combating fraud
» Enhance co-operation with Border Guards based on best practices (e.g. Nuijamaa model for large border crossing points)
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Training
» Proposals for the implementation of the EU competency framework for customs land border control
» Analysing possibilities for common training: sharing training needs assessments, annual training plans, assess existing training programmes for BCPs` officials
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CELBET structure, management, reporting
» Head of CELBET» 6 Team Leaders» 4 x 6 Experts
» Steering Committee» Plenary meetings» CPG, CCWP, CUWP, Customs
Programme groups (LFCG, CUP)
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Thank you!