CAREC Advanced Transit System/Information Common Exchange: Technical Working Group Meetings Customs officials from Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Kazakhstan met to finalize the draft CAREC Advanced Transit System agreement and discuss each country’s domestic requirements for possible signing of the agreement within the year.
CAREC Senior Officials’ Meeting Senior officials from 11 CAREC countries and development partners discussed the progress of the CAREC 2030 strategy implementation.
First CAREC Sanitary and Phytosanitary Regional Working Group Meeting Representatives from 11 CAREC Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) national working groups and trade-related agencies and development partners joined the meeting.
Fifth Joint Meeting of the CAREC Customs Cooperation Committee and CAREC Federation of Carriers and Forwarder Associations CCC and CFCFA had substantial exchange on private sector concerns with custom administrations at borders, possible joint activities for 2019–2021, and possibility of conducting customs–private sector dialogue at national level.
18th CAREC Customs Cooperation Committee Meeting The CAREC Customs Cooperation Committee expressed support to Uzbekistan’s State Customs Committee on the development of an Integrated Information Exchange System for the CAREC region.
10th CAREC Federation of Carrier and Forwarder Associations (CFCFA) Annual Meeting Participants considered and agreed on a unified work plan for 2019–2021, including areas of potential collaboration with CAREC customs administrations.
CAREC Policy Dialogue on Regional Program for Control and Prevention of Transboundary Animal Diseases The policy dialogue supports the implementation of the CAREC Integrated Trade Agenda 2030 and specifically, the CAREC Common Agenda for Modernization of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures for Trade.
Workshop to Implement the CAREC Advanced Transit System and Information Common Exchange Pilots The workshop supported the finalization of draft trilateral agreement to implement the CAREC Advanced Transit System and Information Common Exchange pilot test.
CAREC Policy Dialogue on Regional Pest Surveillance Program Senior- and technical-level officials—responsible for regulatory and inspection policies for plant health—participated in the policy dialogue to discuss key challenges and prospects in modernizing phytosanitary measures in CAREC.
Subregional Workshop on Application of Customs Related Provisions of World Trade Organization Trade Facilitation Agreement The subregional workshop aimed to discuss the application of specific customs-related provisions of the World Trade Organization Trade Facilitation Agreement for Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Kazakhstan.
