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with the international standard, 60% of the OIC MS are all fully compliant. In 60% of the
countries, relevant border agencies do not carry out a periodic review of their documentation
requirements, while 26.7% countries carry out periodic reviews of their documentation
requirements and ensure that requirements that are no longer required are discontinued, but
they don't proceed to simplify requirements that are unduly consuming or costly for traders.
Table 40: TFI related to the formalities – documents
Response 0 1 2
Copies of documents accepted 8.90% 88.90% 2.20%
Copies accepted where another government agency already
holds the original
13.30% 86.70%
International Standards compliance 24.40% 15.60% 60.00%
Periodic review of documentation requirements 60.00% 26.70% 13.30%
Source: WTO TFA indicators database
3.2.5.5 Formalities – Automation
Only 11.11% of the OIC MS have a fully operational mechanism, allowing for the
advance lodging of documents in electronic format, while 40% are in the process of
implementation, and not yet fully operational. Still, for 48.89% of the MS, the pre-arrival
processing is not available. Regarding the automating environment of the risk management,
24.44% of the countries don't have automated risk management mechanism in place, while
46.67% of the countries the risk management is not supported by information technology. Only
12.28%of the countries have a single window that is fully supported by information technology,
while in 17.54% the implementation is work in progress. 49.12%of theMS has not implemented
the single window, or it operates in a non-automated environment. In more than half countries
(51.11%) accepting and exchanging data electronically is in the process of implementation, and
not yet fully operational. In 64.44% of the countries, there is no full-time automated processing.
Table 41: TFI related to formalities – automation
Response 0 1 2
Pre-arrival processing supported by the possibility to lodge
documents in advance in electronic format 48.89% 40.00% 11.11%
Risk Management applied and operating in an automated
environment 24.44% 46.67% 28.89%
Single window supported by information technology 49.12% 17.54% 12.28%
IT Systems capable of accepting and exchanging data
electronically
4.44% 51.11% 44.44%