Facilitating Trade:
Improving Customs Risk Management Systems
In the OIC Member States
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Figure 55: ICRM Conceptual Diagram
Author’s compilation
Attention should be paid to the heterogeneity of the IT Architecture of the participants in ICRM
- that consist of dissimilar or diverse IT systems. It is necessary to integrate these heterogeneous
environments into a single integrated system relying on hardware and software technologies
ensuring:
 Use of highest ICT standards;
 Flexibility and modularity;
 Usability of legacy services/application and functionalities from ICRM participants;
 Subsequent usability of newly developed services;
Based on the risk profiles developed in ICRM, control measures should be coordinated between
customs and other agencies;
 High level of coordination of measures and activities in the system of ICRM;
 Exchange of data and information between government agencies and institutions that
have competencies in the system of ICRM;
 Coordination and assessment of situation in emergency cases at border crossings and
customs terminals;
 ICRM is a base for coordination of cross-border cooperation.
One of the biggest benefits of the ICRM system is the feedback from control. This does not apply
only to cases of detected irregularities/non-compliance, but also to those cases in which the
control did not produce any results/findings. This applies not only to customs but to all agencies
involved in the import, export and transit procedures.