The World Customs Organization, the highest policy making global customs council may be set for three-day brainstorming session to establish a functional single window environment for goods clearance as the 180 member heads of Customs administration meets in Brussels, the Belgian capital this week.
The Customs Comptroller General, Alhaji Dikko Inde Abdullahi as the WCO Vice Chairman for West and Central Africa Region will lead the Nigerian delegation to the Council meeting.
The Nigeria Customs Service NCS image-maker and spokesman, Adewale Adeniyi disclosed this at the weekend in Abuja, indicating the single window as the solution for the complex problems of Customs clearance, especially where multiple Government regulatory agencies were involved.
Adeniyi highlighted that the Brussels Council meeting would present a draft compendium, which would bring together the governance, legal, technical and administrative aspects of clearance into a Single document.
“Already, the establishment of a single window is clearance system is one of the terms of reference of a high-powered Technical Committee of experts, set up by the Comptroller General of Customs” observed the spokesman, adding that other issues slated for discussion at the WCO Council meeting would also include issues of a globally network Customs, coordinated border management, time-release study and the role of Customs in natural disaster situations.
Expatiating further, Adeniyi posited further that the Council meeting would equally feature election into the post of Director, Tariff and Trade Affairs; in which the Customs administrations of Italy and Denmark are fielding candidates for elections.
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WCO to give teeth to single window cargo clearing