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Authorized Economic Operator Programs

In the Islamic Countries:

Enhancing Customs-Traders Partnership

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Legal base of the GL Program is the Customs Law 20/1998. There were two amendments in

2005 and 2011 without an explicit clause on the GL program.

Table 4.1. Timeline of the Development of the Jordan Customs Golden List Program

September 2003.

Jordan Customs and USAID

agree to design and implement an AEO

Program.

October 2004.

Compliance manuals for

each industry segment are drafted.

October 2003.

Jordan Customs completes the

legal research necessary to create an enabling

environment

.

December 2004.

At the WCO biannual

meeting in Amman, informal discussions

between Jordan Customs Department and

CBP are held.

November 2003.

Compliance audit training is

conducted.

March 2005.

The WCO provides an

advance copy of the SAFE Standards to

validate the Jordan Customs Department’s

Golden List Program planning.

February 2004.

The first public information

seminar is held.

May 2005

. Jordan Customs Department

provides training to private sector

companies.

March 2004.

Volunteer pilot test companies

are selected for al supply chain industries.

June 2005

. The WCO issues the SAFE

Standards. Jordan Customs begin mutual

recognition process, beginning with

assessment of Golden List supply chain

security components against C-TPAT

program.

April 2004.

AEO program plan, with final

target dates and responsibilities, is drafted.

August 2005

. Jordan Customs officially

launches Golden List Program and opens

participation to other qualified Jordan

companies.

May 2004.

Jordan Customs Department

finalizes its Compliance Audit Manual and

participates in a public information seminar

sponsored by Customs and the pilot test

companies.

Source: Holler and Schanck (2010).

One of the distinctive features of the GL program design is its alignment with the Project

Management Institute (PMI) standards. Table 4.1 presents the timeline of the development of

the Jordan Customs GL program.

Golden List, a voluntary based Customs program, was a brand-new doing-business practice in

its inaugural years in Jordan and was met with a great degree of skepticism by the private

sector. As a result, the initial number of companies applying for the GL program was well

below expectations in spite of extensive promotional activities described in Table 4.1.