The specific objectives • To support more effective national and international responses to illicit trafficking by PROJECT DURATION: means of implementing the following goals: January 2020 - December 2023 Strengthening the three current PCUs under the CCP: Bijača land border crossing (Bosnia EU CONTRIBUTION: and Herzegovina); port of Bar (Montenegro) and Vermice land border crossing (Kosovo €4,450,000 under UNSCR 1244) by building capacity and strengthening joint work; TOTAL PROJECT BUDGET: Establishing new units under the CCP: one €4,672,500 new PCU at Gradiška land border crossing (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and three new ACCUs at the international airports of Skopje, LOCATION: Belgrade and Sarajevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, • To strengthen the capacities of law enforcement North Macedonia, agencies active at international airports in the Serbia and Kosovo Western Balkans to detect and intercept high risk under UNSCR 1244 passengers, in an effort to counter international organized crime and illicit drug trafficking, and prevent terrorism by: Supporting the establishment and operationalization of an AIRCOP JAITF at the International Airports of Belgrade (Serbia), Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Skopje (North Macedonia) via the AIRCOP project. IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS: UNODC, WCO and INTERPOL DONOR: EUROPEAN UNION THE GOAL This action is aimed at enhancing the capacities Through this action, UNODC will further Furthermore, under the AIRCOP part of the of authorities in the Western Balkans to ght implement CCP, which has been present in the action, UNODC will establish and organized crime, by supporting more eective region since 2013 with Port Control Units (PCUs) operationalize inter-agency Joint Airport and coordinated responses to illicit tracking already established in Albania, Bosnia and Interdiction Task Forces (JAITFs) focusing on by border law enforcement at seaports, land Herzegovina, Montenegro and Kosovo under passengers at the three mentioned airports. border crossings and international airports in UNSCR 1244, and another one to be established AIRCOP is new to the region, while being a the region. in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the future. large-scale global programme of UNODC. Three new Air Cargo Control Units (ACCU) will be established through the CCP-Air programme, in The action involves the Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, The action will support the implementation of UNODC-WCO Container Control Programme Skopje, North Macedonia and the UN Conventions on drugs and crime and (CCP) and the UNODC-WCO-INTERPOL Airport Belgrade, Serbia. the EU Acquis, notably Chapters 23 and 24 Communication Project (AIRCOP) under the addressing serious organized crime, rule of umbrella of the UNODC Regional Programme for law, good governance and security. The action South Eastern Europe. will improve eectiveness and develop synergies between law enforcement actors at the national, regional and international levels and build bridges between various thematic Additional information and newsletters: Container Control Programme areas as well as between the Western Balkans https://www.unodc.org/southeasterneurope/en/ https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/ccp/index.html and other regions, improving the security border-control-action-resources.html [email protected] situation in the Western Balkans and Europe as a whole, in line with the UNODC promoted Regional Programme for South Eastern Europe Airport Communication Project https://www.unodc.org/southeasterneurope/ https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/organized-crime/ Inter-Regional Drug Control Approach and its [email protected] AIRCOP/1-aircop-home.html “Networking the Networks” initiative. [email protected].