Improving the Border Agency Cooperation
Among the OIC Member States for Facilitating Trade
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Control Location Target threat Control agency Control
frequency
Plant health
inspection
Farms/Nairobi
Airport
Plant diseases and
pests
Kenyan
phytosanitary
agency
100%
Aviation
security
screening
Nairobi Airport Assembled explosive
and incendiary devices
Freight forwarder 100%
Entry
customs
control
Schiphol Airport or
FloraHolland
premises
Threats to safety,
security, health,
economy and the
environment
Dutch customs ≈ 4%
Plant health
inspection
Schiphol Airport or
FloraHolland
premises
Plant diseases and
pests
FloraHolland/
Dutch
phytosanitary
agency
≈ 5%
Import
customs
control
Schiphol Airport or
FloraHolland
premises
Tax & duty fraud and
threats to safety,
security, health,
economy and
environment
Dutch customs ≈ 1%
Source FP7-CORE, CBRA
The Kenya–Netherlands example demonstrates a set of innovations that are designed to increase
the speed of the flower supply chain. One pilot introduced new-generation GPS tracking and tracing
devices, container sensors and seals into the flower supply chain. These trackers and sensors are
designed to record and report any inexplicable anomalies that might happen to the flower
shipments during transportation, for example when and where the shipment has been opened for
no apparent reason. The demonstration also trials new electronic phytosanitary certificates that
enable fast and automated exchange of information between the Kenyan and Dutch phytosanitary
authorities. The demo also seeks to find ways to arrange customs and plant health controls at the
same time and in the same location, in a synchronised manner. The demonstration also looks for
ways to improve government-to-government and business-to-government information exchange.
One expected benefit of this would be more accurate risk-based targeting of flower shipments for
customs control.
Source: FP7-CORE, CBRA
Growers
Road
transport
Airport of
Nairobi
Airport of
Schiphol
Road
transport
Distribution
centre
Entry customs
control
Plant health
controls
Synchronized
inspections
Import customs
control
AvSec
screening
Plant health
controls
Digital exchange of
phytosanitary certificates
Advanced risk
profiling & targeting
Air transport