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and successfully completed in 2017. He added that pilot transports are still ongoing and both
sides are in touch to extend the scope of the pilot project.
In addition to this, he also mentioned about the transport operations within the scope of the
Turkish-Georgian e-TIR Pilot Project aiming C2C e-data exchange, which started on May 18th,
2018.
Mr. EVMEZ stated that these two pilots constituted a significant part of e-TIR Reference Model
by testing the real environment applications and new negotiations with different countries are
also on the agenda for new pilot projects. Furthermore, he emphasized the advantages of e-TIR
Pilot Projects for the entire TIR world. By eliminating paper-based TIR transactions, this model
would play a leading role for the universal customs transit regime.
He informed that the aforementioned e-TIR Pilot Projects were already introduced as the best
examples in the World Customs Organization (WCO) Transit Guidelines. Additionally, he
highlighted the potential advantages and future prospects for including these transit schemes
into the WCO Globally Networked Customs (GNC) as a Utility Block.
Mr. EVMEZ also added that, in addition to those initiatives, Turkey exchanges transit data
information with Georgia and Azerbaijan, respectively and the negotiations for further
implementations with Iran and Uzbekistan are still going on. He informed that, by doing so,
preliminary information sharing in order to improve the cooperation with the neighboring
countries is achieved.
He concluded his presentation by expressing that those steps will all contribute to the safe and
expeditious e-customs and e-trade transactions in all over Turkey.