Single Window Systems

In the OIC Member States

Under Cameroonian law, a written signature is not required for a valid contract

. The Laws on

Electronic Commerce and Cyber Security and Cyber Criminality specifically ascertain that

contracts cannot be denied enforceability merely because they are concluded electronically.

The e-GUCE digital signature development was finalized in January 2015 and is the first secure

platform that is integrated with the Cameroon National Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). GUCE-

GIE is now a PKI Registration Authority. The e-GUCE SW has integrated the digital signature

for signing of data and information on a system-to-system basis.

4.2

Kyrgyz Republic Single Window

4.2.1

Implementation Process and Progress

The Single Window in Kyrgyz Republic, called TULPAR, has been created in 2009 and the

electronic platform is operational since 2014. It has been developed in several phases:



2009-2011: Preparatory work, creation of TULPAR, pilot IT system;



2011-2014: Phase I: Tendering, development, testing and production of platform;



2014-2016: Phase II: Analysis and design for re-design.

The Single Window project started in 2006-2007, with a trade facilitation survey conducted in

cooperation with the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and USAID. A

Trade Facilitation action plan, adopted in 2008

, included a Single Window as a

recommendation. The Kyrgyz initiative was a precursor in the Central-Asian region.

In 2009, the feasibility study for the purpose of establishing the Single Window was approved

by the Government and the Centre for the Single Window, TULPAR, was set up in August 2009

by a Government decree. From thereon, TULPAR drove the preparatory work with support

from donors such as GIZ and USAID. This included the feasibility study, a matrix of

requirements, and legal documents for the creation of the Single Window enterprise.

To increase the understanding of Single Windows, three study visits were undertaken; in 2009

and in 2012 to Senegal and in 2016 to Malaysia. GIZ financed a IT pilot system covering 6

agencies to overcome doubts of stakeholders.

On-going Evolutions Planned and Executed

The IT system became operational in 2014 and has not been changed since then. TULPAR

focused on scaling the system by bringing more specialized state agencies and their

procedures within its scope. The majority of resources, including Human Resources (HR),

Cameroon Civil Code; Uniform Act on General Commercial Law and Loi N°2010/012 Decembre 2010

President Kyrgyz Republic Decree "On state policy development in the field of foreign trade and measures to improve

export-import procedures" of 18 December 2008 № 452