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GCI - SECI Training Workshop,
Budapest, Hungary, 29 - 30 March 2011
A new partnership - Combating International Environmental
Crime in Southeast Europe
.For the first time, the Green Customs Initiative has jointly
held a training workshop with the Southeast European Cooperation
Initiative (SECI) and the Hungarian National Bureau of Investigation
on combating international environmental crime. The workshop which
was held on 29th and 30th March included participation of customs
and police officers from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Greece, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia,
Slovenia and Turkey, along with experts from the German CITES
Management Authority, INTERPOL, UNEP DTIE, the Basel Convention
Secretariat and Basel Regional Centre for Central Europe and the
Hungarian Ministry of Rural Development.
The workshop provided the opportunity for the Partners to the
Green Customs Initiative to present their conventions and organisations
and discuss the role of customs and enforcement authorities in
implementing these and addressing relevant environmental crime
issues.
SECI is a unique operational organization which
facilitates the rapid exchange of information between law enforcement
agencies from 13 member countries regarding trans-border criminal
cases within the framework of eight Task Forces addressing issues
of drugs and human beings trafficking, stolen vehicles, smuggling
and customs fraud, financial and computer crimes, terrorism, container
security and environmental and nature-related crimes.
SECI
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