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WCO Green Customs Regional
Workshop, 25 - 29 May, 2009
Adverse conditions are the breeding grounds for the unscrupulous
activities of smugglers. The financial crisis is likely, in some
areas, to reduce legal trade and multiply the illegal trade in
environmentally damaging commodities. Hence in this period of
crisis, customs officers need to be more vigilant and better equipped
to prevent the illegal trade. These were the resounding messages
from the recently concluded joint Green Customs - World Customs
Organisation workshop, the first of its kind, which was one of
the many activities the WCO is involved in, in the year it has
declared environment is a priority.
Customs officials from the finance ministries of 14 countries
of the Asia-Pacific region Pacific spent five days in green campus
of India's National Academy of Customs, Excise and Narcotics (NACEN)
training facility near New Delhi, India in this customs training
workshop to assist them to better enforce multilateral environmental
agreements (MEAs) with trade-related provisions. The interactive
workshop created unprecedented enthusiasm in the 'protectors of
economic frontier' who will soon assume the additional responsibility
as ' 'protectors of the environmental frontiers' .
Please see brief WCO report on the Workshop .
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