Improving the Border Agency Cooperation
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3. BAC ACTIVITIES ACROSS OIC REGIONS AND COUNTRIES
This chapter gives an overview of the BAC activities in OIC Member States and provides the
relevant context for understanding the current status of regional and other initiatives. Since
many of the BAC related activities and initiatives and particularly their underlying legal
frameworks are regional, the acitivities on the basis of the three geographic regions of OIC:
Arab, Asian and African will be explored. In the following subchapters a deeper analysis of the
status in the three OIC regions are presented.
This chapter builds on our research, taking benefit of extensive data collection and large
studies performed by international organisations such as World Bank and OECD, as well as our
literature review. For this purpose, a dataset across all OIC Member States is have been
collected. In the following chapters, some key indicators for BAC activities in OIC Member
States with the help of summary tables are provided. The indicators are described in Table
below.
Table 3. Cross-border performance and iBAC indicators
The number of affiliations
in the international
organisations,
conventions and
agreements constituting
the BAC legal framework
(see Annex C)
This indicator reflects the compliance to existing international
agreements and standards in the field and the level of adoption of
international cooperation mechanisms, including technical
cooperation, mutual recognition, mutual assistance agreements
and memorandums of understanding.
The exports and imports
per capita (USD in 2014).
These two indicators reflect the member state’s dependence on
foreign trade and thus on smooth and efficient border activities.
Vice versa, the level of foreign trade may be constrained by
inefficient border activities. The export and import values as well
as population figures are from CIA World Fact Book 78
The Customs indicator
fromWorld Bank’s
Logistics Performance
Index (2014).
This indicator measures the efficiency of the clearance process (i.e.,
speed, simplicity and predictability of formalities) by border
control agencies, including customs. The indicator values are
originally derived from a specific LPI survey.79
The Trading Across
Borders indicator from
World Bank’s Doing
Business study.
The indicator is expressed as a ’Distance-to-Frontier’ percentage,
which indicates the level of each country compared to the top
performance. The indicator measures the time and cost (excluding
tariffs) associated with three sets of procedures—documentary
compliance, border compliance and domestic transport—within
the overall process of exporting or importing a shipment of
goods.80
The BAC indicators from
OECD’s Trade Facilitation
study.
The Internal border agency cooperation measures the co-operation
between various border agencies of the country and control
delegation to customs authorities. The External border agency
cooperation measures the co-operation with neighbouring and
third countries.81
Sources: CIA World Factbook, World Bank, OECD
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80 (accessed 2 May 2016)
81 (accessed 2 August 2016)