World Customs Organization (WCO)
Organisation mondiale des douanes (OMD)
Organización Mundial de Aduanas (OMA)
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Founded
1950-12-15 Brussels Belgium
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Enhance effectiveness and efficiency of customs administrations in areas of compliance with trade regulations, protection of society and revenue collection, thereby contributing to economic and social well-being of nations; establish, maintain, support and promote international instruments for harmonization and uniform application of simplified and effective customs systems and procedures governing the movement of commodities, people and conveyances across customs frontiers; reinforce members' efforts to secure compliance with their legislation; maximize the level and effectiveness of members' cooperation with each other and with international organizations in order to combat customs and other transnational offences; assist members in their efforts to meet the challenges of the modern business environment and adapt to changing circumstances, by promoting communication and cooperation among members and with other international organizations, and by fostering integrity, human resource development, transparency, improvements in the management and working methods of customs administrations and the sharing of best practice.
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Cooperates with: F-XD0695 - International Transport Forum (ITF); E-XE0791 - Union of African Shippers' Councils (UASC). Observer to: E-XE8700 - Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC); F-XM4852 - Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes. Memorandum of Understanding with:
- D-XD4730 - Caribbean Customs Law Enforcement Council (CCLEC);
- F-XF3714 - Communauté économique et monétaire d'Afrique centrale (CEMAC);
- D-XD3153 - Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO);
- E-XM4174 - Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) - Eurasian Economic Commission;
- E-XE1915 - European Police Office (Europol);
- F-XF1069 - Inter-American Development Bank (IDB);
- E-XE0985 - Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission;
- B-XB1383 - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA);
- E-XE3768 - International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD);
- B-XB1505 - International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO);
- B-XB1775 - International Criminal Police Organization - INTERPOL (ICPO-INTERPOL);
- B-XB1117 - International Maritime Organization (IMO);
- E-XE2279 - International Narcotics Control Board (INCB);
- F-XF4542 - Islamic Development Bank (IsDB);
- C-XC3023 - OECD;
- B-XE2295 - World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH);
- B-XB0057 - Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW);
- E-XE2653 - Secretariat of the Basel Convention (SBC);
- E-XE8554 - Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES Secretariat);
- E-XE4515 - Southeast European Law Enforcement Center (SELEC);
- E-XE4161 - UNEP;
- E-XE3381 - UNCTAD;
- B-XB3383 - UNESCO;
- E-XE3242 - United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA);
- United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA);
- E-XE3574 - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC);
- B-XB3408 - Universal Postal Union (UPU);
- B-XB3548 - WHO.
Relations with the United Nations, including specialized agencies and bodies having special status, such as:
- E-XE3377 - ECOSOC;
- B-XB0971 - FAO;
- F-XF3051 - Financial Action Task Force (FATF);
- F-XF2266 - International Monetary Fund (IMF);
- E-XE3382 - UNDP;
- B-XE3386 - UNIDO;
- E-XE5951 - United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND);
- E-XE4174 - United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA);
- E-XE4176 - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), especially 'Working Party on Facilitation of International Trade Procedures';
- E-XE4175 - United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC);
- E-XE4177 - United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP);
- E-XE4178 - United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA);
- WIPO;
- B-XF2527 - World Trade Organization (WTO).
Member of: E-XK1497 - Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG); E-XE4156 - Eastern and Southern African Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG); Southeast European Law Enforcement Center (SELEC).
Relations with:
- F-XF0671 - Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS);
- D-XD8572 - African Union (AU);
- F-XD0055 - Andean Community;
- D-XD0165 - ASEAN;
- D-XD4579 - Caribbean Community (CARICOM);
- F-XF3162 - Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA);
- F-XF5516 - Communauté économique des pays des Grands Lacs (CEPGL);
- E-XE2000 - Co-operation Group to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Drugs (Pompidou Group);
- D-XD0433 - Council of Arab Economic Unity (CAEU);
- F-XD3462 - Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS);
- D-XD0766 - EFTA;
- E-XK0128 - EU Customs Union;
- E-XF2543 - European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA);
- E-XE5009 - Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in case of Illicit Appropriation;
- B-XB2674 - International Customs Tariffs Bureau;
- C-XC2302 - International Olive Council (IOC);
- D-XD2903 - League of Arab States (LAS);
- H-XD3093 - Nordiska Tulladministrativa Rådet (NTR);
- D-XD3030 - OAS;
- K-XK1229 - Postal Operations Council (POC);
- E-XF0358 - Secretaria Permanente del Convenio Multilateral sobre Cooperación y Asistencia Mutua entre las Direcciones Nacionales de Aduanas de América Latina, España y Portugal (COMALEP);
- E-XD0996 - Secretaria Permanente del Tratado General de Integración Económica Centroamericana (SIECA);
- F-XF4396 - Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI);
- D-XD4612 - Southern African Customs Union (SACU);
- E-XE3245 - Steering Committee on Trade Capacity and Standards (CTCS);
- F-XF3713 - Union économique et monétaire Ouest africaine (UEMOA);
- E-XK1552 - United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT);
- B-XB3635 - World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO);
- World Trade Organization (WTO).
Links with:
- E-XK1975 - Asian Development Bank Institute (ADB Institute);
- E-XJ2145 - Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre for Combating Illicit Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Their Precursors (CARICC);
- E-XE2969 - Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC);
- D-XD5661 - Comunidade dos Paises de Lingua Portuguesa (CPLP);
- E-XE3939 - Coordinating Council on Trans-Siberian Transportation (CCTT);
- E-XK0420 - Ecole Inter-Etats des Douanes de la CEMAC (EIED);
- H-XD8686 - Eurasian Economic Community (EurAseC);
- F-XF5674 - European Anti-Fraud Office;
- E-XE3917 - Inter-American Committee on Ports;
- F-XM1037 - Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENAFATF);
- E-XK1276 - Secretariat for the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Ozone Secretariat);
- E-XE3748 - United Nations Global Programme Against Money Laundering, Proceeds of Crime and the Financing of Terrorism (GPML);
- E-XE4069 - United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI).
Relations with Non-Governmental Organizations
Memorandum of Understanding with:
- B-XB0031 - Airports Council International (ACI);
- Asociación Nacional para la Defensa de la Marcas (ANDEMA);
- C-XD0183 - BIMCO;
- G-XF3369 - Business Software Alliance (BSA);
- E-XE6001 - Federation of European Movers Associations (FEDEMAC);
- D-XD7292 - Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI);
- B-XC1916 - Fédération internationale des associations de transitaires et assimilés (FIATA);
- C-XD4092 - Federation of National Associations of Shipbrokers and Agents (FONASBA);
- F-XF1406 - Global Express Association (GEA);
- K-XK0886 - ICC Commercial Crime Services (CCS);
- C-XD5384 - The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA);
- B-XB1149 - International Air Transport Association (IATA);
- B-XB1329 - International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH);
- D-XD5681 - International Banking Security Association (IBSA);
- E-XD1438 - International Bureau of the Societies Administering the Rights of Mechanical Recording and Reproduction;
- B-XB1490 - International Chamber of Commerce (ICC);
- C-XC1492 - International Chamber of Shipping (ICS);
- C-XD3129 - International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA);
- B-XB1749 - International Council of Museums (ICOM) and its E-XK2285 - ICOM International Committee for University Museums and Collections (UMAC);
- D-XD5679 - International Federation of Customs Brokers Associations (IFCBA);
- B-XB2420 - International Road Transport Union (IRU);
- G-XG0823 - Motion Picture Association (MPA);
- E-XE0582 - Piracy Reporting Centre, Kuala Lumpur;
- D-XJ3016 - TradeMark East Africa (TMEA);
- F-XF5436 - TRAFFIC International (TRAFFIC).
In liaison with technical committees of: B-XB2314 - International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Technical collaboration and exchange of observers with all international nongovernmental organizations having an interest in customs matters, including:
- U-XF1079 - Aviation Research and Development Institute (ARDI);
- E-XE1703 - Bureau international des containers et du transport intermodal (BIC);
- C-XC2403 - Bureau of International Recycling (BIR);
- D-XD7776 - DIGITALEUROPE;
- D-XD3964 - EDANA, the voice of nonwovens (EDANA);
- D-XD8583 - European Express Association (EEA);
- D-XD1418 - Fédération européenne du commerce chimique (Fecc);
- E-XE3580 - ICC Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau (CIB);
- F-XF6005 - Imaging Consumables Coalition of Europe, Middle-East and Africa (ICCE);
- F-XF1042 - International Anticounterfeiting Coalition (IACC);
- C-XC1800 - International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC);
- F-XF0742 - International Exhibition Logistics Association (IELA);
- E-XE0237 - International Maritime Bureau (IMB);
- B-XB2772 - International Union of Railways (UIC);
- E-XE5098 - World Chambers Federation (WCF);
- E-XM3397 - World Shipping Council (WSC).
Member of: F-XF6598 - International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE). Links with: B-XB2636 - Alliance internationale de tourisme (AIT); C-XJ8886 - BORDERPOL; F-XF4766 - European Services Forum (ESF); F-XF5832 - Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group (GACG); C-XC8492 - GS1; C-XC1913 - International Federation of Film Producers' Associations; D-XD8799 - Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO); B-XD2160 - World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises (WASME). Links indicated by: C-XC2792 - FIVS; D-XD9037 - Professional Customs Brokers Association of the Americas; G-XG9056 - World Renderers Association (WRO)
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