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___________________________________________________________________________ 2020/SOM1/CTI/A2C2/006 Coordinated Border Management in Finland and Global Trends Submitted by: WCO Tenth APEC Alliance for Supply Chain Connectivity Meeting Putrajaya, Malaysia 10 February 2020 V CBM Finland Case & Global Trends Tenth Meeting of the APEC Alliance for Supply Armen Manukyan Chain Connectivity (A2C2) Technical Attaché February 10, 2019 Compliance and Facilitation Directorate www.wcoomd.org © 2019 World Customs Organization (WCO) 1 Coordinated Border Management in Finland Inter-departmental cooperation Police, Customs and Border Guard (PCB) cooperation www.wcoomd.org CBM Case Finland (presented by Mika Poutiainen) 2 Finnish Customs Background • Legal background already since 1927; • Incremental development (Decrees in 1949,1978 & 2001); • Current legal base: Act and Government Decree on Cooperation between PCB- authorities (2009) • Agreements – Trilateral agreement and bilateral agreements signed by heads of agencies; • PCB strategy 2015 – 2018 Finnish Customs SHARED COMPETENCE POLICE Public Traffic order and control CUSTOMS safety Customs Crime prevention security Control of aliens Customs and patrolling control and related to public border checks order and safety Exclusive powers BORDER GUARD Primary/secondary Border security powers Overlapping powers Finnish Customs PCB cooperation in general matters • Common ICT-solutions – Domestic investigation database – Access to each others criminal intelligence databases – Common criminal analyses tools • Purchasing of material together • Education & training – Common education – Providing right to study in each others courses Finnish Customs Different forms of cooperation • Passport control at airports and harbors • Customs duties at temporary border posts • Police duties at BCPs • Pilot project in northern and eastern Finland – Harva Finnish Customs Role of Customs in enforcement cooperation Ministry Finance Tax Administration Export controls, corporate audits, grey economy Interior Police Crime prevention, LIPRE Border Guard Passport controls, weapons, cash Transport and Finnish Transport Safety Agency (Trafi) Controls of heavy traffic Communications Safety measures at ports Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (Evira) FEOGA, food products Forestry Agency for Rural Affairs (Mavi) Plant and animal diseases Foreign Affairs Department for External Economic Dual use products including weapons of mass destruction Relations, Political Department International trade regulations, e.g. customs value and provenance Social Affairs Medicines Agency (Fimea) Medicines and Health Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health (Valvira) Alcohol, tobacco Radiation Safety Authority (STUK) Radioactive materials Education Copyright organisations Copyrights Board of Antiquities Objects of cultural value Environment Environmental Administration (SYKE) Waste, chemicals, CITES Oil Pollution Compensation Fund Oil damage duty Employment and Safety Technology Authority (Tukes) Chemicals, consumer goods, explosives the Economy Board of Patents and Registration Intellectual property rights Defence Ministry of Defence Defence materiel Finnish Customs The Nuija Model at Nuijamaa BCP Finnish Customs 8 2 1 4 3 5 6 7 Nuijamaa border crossing point 1. Cargo traffic centre 2. Passenger traffic centre 3. X-ray 4. Weight control 5. Inspection hall 6. Seizured vehicles 7. Parking area for trucks 8. Border to Russia Finnish Customs Finland – Norway – Sweden Border cooperation between Norway, Sweden and Finland the domestic border authorities of each economy are allowed to provide services and exercise legal powers not only on behalf of their home state, but that of their neighbouring states as well. Swedish–Norwegian Border • Already in 1959, Norway and Sweden signed a customs co- operation agreement aimed at facilitating border crossing, simplifying customs controls and clearance procedures. • Both economies have been members of the Schengen Area • Only Sweden is EU Member • Export from Sweden and Import to Norway are done by Norwegian Customs • Import to Sweden and export from Norway are done by Swedish Customs Finnish Customs 11 Automated number plates recognition system was integrated in Baltics 2013 12 Average & Median Relevant Stakeholders Number involved (CBRAs/PGAs) in a Single Window Environment WCO AP region, which includes most of APEC Member economies, and EUR regions have the highest and the lowest average numbers of regulatory agencies respectively (denoted by the red rhombuses inside the boxplots). AP region has as well, both the highest interquartile range and the largest amplitude (determined by the length of the horizontal black line passing through the box). www.wcoomd.org Regulatory Areas Covered by SWE/ACE Most common stakeholders and regulatory areas involved in a Single Window environment The number of the stakeholders and formalities covered by an SW environment can be an appropriate indicator of coordination level on cross border checkpoints. Efficiencies of frontend procedures, services are directly related to the backend coordination with all the relevant stakeholders as well. The diagram lists only the most common ones, while the responses provided a vast diversity of Agencies involved in the SW environment. www.wcoomd.org V Armen Manukyan Technical Attaché Compliance and Facilitation Directorate E-mail [email protected] www.wcoomd.org 15.