Facilitating Trade:
Improving Customs Risk Management Systems
In the OIC Member States
81
Figure 25: OIC MS AEO implementation status and simplification measures
Source: Author’s compilation
Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan have adopted the legal framework of the Eurasian Economic
Union (EEU) trusted trader programme.
According to the WCO Compendium of Authorized Economic Operator Programme and
information available on the OIC MS web sites, 1097 is the total number of the AEO operators in
OIC MS, or in average, near 45 operators per MS that has implemented the AEO concept. Algeria
is a leader in the OIC MS with 335 AEO operators, followed by Turkey with 263 AEO operators,
and Morocco with 180 AEO operators (category A). presents the OIC MS AEO and
simplification measures status.
Table 16: OIC MS AEO status and simplification measures
OIC MS Year of adoption of AEO Concept No. of operators
Albania Adopted legislation
Algeria 2012 335
Azerbaijan 2013 1
Bahrain 2018
Bangladesh Under Development Exporter at the pilot stage
Brunei Darussalam
Sutera Lane Merchant Scheme
2017
Cameroon
Performance Operators’ Contracts
2011
27 Importers
Ivory Coast 2017
Experimental phase 2nd quarter 2017
with 10 pilot companies
Egypt 2005 115
Indonesia 2013 9
Iran 2014 11
3
2
25
27
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Legal framework for authorised
traders programme adopted
Under Development
Implemeted AEO programme
No AEO