Proceedings of the 13th Meeting of
The COMCEC Trade Working Group
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7. Success Stories of the Member States
7.1. Azerbaijan
Mr. Rovshan Namazov, Head of Division of Support to International Trade, State Customs
Committee in Azerbaijan made an intervention regarding the situation of customs information
systems in Azerbaijan.
At the outset, he stated that 2018 was a reform year for Azerbaijan in terms of customs
administration and there were many organizational changes and new arrangements. Mr.
Namazov informed the participants regarding the Green Corridor which has just come into
effect as of February 1st, 2019. He expressed that Green Corridor gives some advantages to
the traders such as ensuring faster crossing the borders, priority order, and minimal fiscal
inspections etc.
Furthermore, Mr. Namazov highlighted that there are two main issues to mention; advance
ruling and AEO systems. He pointed out that Azerbaijan has the legal basis for them. He also
emphasized that an online electronic database for advance rulings would be established in
order to ease the trade processes.
Before concluding, Mr. Namazov stated that most of the processes are being conducted in
electronically in Azerbaijan for facilitating the movement throughout the borders.
7.2. Guinea
On behalf of Guinea, M. Mory DIANE, Chief of Division Studies and Development (IT
department) at the Direction Générale des Douanes, made a presentation about Increasing
Public Availability of Customs Information in the OIC Member States.
He started his presentation by introducing Guinea’s Customs organization chart while
indicating the technical directorate is in charge of legislations and regulations.
Then he explained through the table below different method of publication and how customs
officers, freight forwarders, consignees companies, importers, exporters, etc. access to
customs information.