For four days, from Tuesday 2^nd to Friday 5, 2017 27 customs officers learned new techniques of trade facilitation at a seminar on risk analysis held at the Regional Training Center (RTC) of the WCO (World Customs Orgnization) in Brazzaville (targeting and selection).

The seminar was on the standards of the Revised Kyoto Protocol(Japan) and conducted by Ibrahima Seck and Ousmane Coundoul, experts from the World Customs Organization. The instruments of accession to the Protocol are expected by economic operators as a useful tool for the creation of economic special zones, a project included in the road map of the government.

Risk management can be defined as the systematic implementation of procedures and practices which allows the Customs to get information useful for appropriately addressing the issue of transport or goods which pose a threat.

The preamble of the revised Kyoto Convention stipulates that the implementation of of risk management is one of the seven key principles for trade facilitation. Henceforth, suspicious containers have to be targeted or selected, based on the information provided by the relevant services of the country the containers come from.

The executives thus trained ought from now on manage the time to think over and to have coherent strategies so as to reach the objectives assigned to us by the government, Jean Baptiste Yomo, ad interim Chief Executive Officer of customs and indirect taxation, said at the closing of the meeting.

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