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Authorized Economic Operator Programs

In the Islamic Countries:

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determinants of the number of AEO operators in a country. Morocco is the leading country

among OIC with 439 AEO companies registered. By launching the AEO program in 2006,

Morocco has also the first mover advantage. Turkey is the second country having the highest

number of AEO status holders. Though, many countries initiated the program as late as 2017.

AEO program in Egypt has also more than 100 enrollments by the companies. Despite the early

initiation of the AEO program, the lower number of enrollment in Jordan has several reasons

as will be discussed in Chapter 4. Although Azerbaijan has an active AEO program since 2010,

there are only 2 companies registered, which needs special attention.

AEO programs are distributed almost evenly among different income groups in the OIC region.

However, the number of countries without an AEO program is the highest in low income

countries (Figure 3.7).

Figure 3.7. Number of AEO operators in OIC Countries: Income Category

Source: Authors’ compilation using WCO (2018) data.

3.2 Assessment Approach

3.2.1 Data Collection

OIC member countries exhibit a great degree of heterogeneity in terms of AEO adoption and

implementation as discussed in Section 3.1. In order to document and analyze the current

status of the AEO programs in the OIC members, an extensive amount of data is collected.

Data collection includes surveys distributed online and by e-mail as well as secondary source

analyses (such as collecting information from relevant webpages and quantifying those).

Furthermore, public and private sector interview questionnaires with open-ended questions

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Low income

Lower-middle income

Upper-middle income

High income

Operational AEO

Operational CCP

AEO under development

no AEO & CCP