As customs officers are required agents to be in front of borders and are the first people who are authorized to get in contact with people who come into the country either by air or by sea, they are potential victims and vectors of the virus ....Read more...
On the sidelines of the 18th meeting of the WCO Audit Committee, of which Comoros and South Africa represent the 24 member countries of Eastern and Southern Africa, the DG of Comoros Customs met the student inspectors trainees at the Belgian Customs School (BCS)....Read more...
The Central Revenue Department has published the results for the first half of 2019. The financial statements of the first half of 2019 show nine billion seven hundred and ten million francs (9 billion, 710 million KMF) with a realization of 83.12% compared to the objectives fixed by the ministry of Finance , Budget et Banking sector excluding taxes on petroleum products and ordinary rice....Read more...
A delegation from the geographical department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) came in Comoros since Monday, June 10 for a mission to assess the consequences of hurricane Kenneth on the country. An emergency assistance plan for the Union of Comoros will then be developed under a so-called Credit Facility program. "We are here to witness, listen to everyone, support the government's efforts after Kenneth's passage," said the chief of mission, David Owen, Deputy Director of the Africa Department yesterday....Read more...
The General Directorate of Customs met a mission of the Union of Universal Posts on Tuesday, May 14, 2019 in the presence of the heads of the postal company of Comoros. The discussions focused on the electronic exchange of information between Comoros Customs and Comoros National Society ....Read more...
Sessions of explanation to the agents of the customs began since Monday, April 16th in the various customs centers of the country. The Revised Kyoto Convention (RKC), adopted in 1999 and brought into force in 2006, contains provisions and dozens of harmonized standards, which aims to simplify customs procedures in Africa and around the world. Comoros is in the process of adapting the provisions of the CKR to the relevant national legislation and will deposit the instrument of accession next June at the headquarters of the World Customs Organization (WCO) ....Read more...
On 28 June 2022, at the invitation of the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in charge of the Coordination of the Fight against Fraud, Mr. Van Peteghem, the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, took part in the graduation ceremony of the 50th session of the Belgian Customs School. The ceremony marked the end of 10 months of theoretical and practical training in core Customs matters provided by the Belgian Customs School and complemented by the WCO.
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On 9 March 2022, during the ongoing 28th Revised Kyoto Convention Management Committee’s Meeting, Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), in his capacity as the depositary of the Convention, received the Instrument of Accession of the Union of Comoros to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention - RKC) from H.E Mr. Mohamed Chatur BADAOUI, Ambassador of the Union of the Comoros to the Kingdom of Belgium, at WCO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium....Read more...
The World Customs Organization (WCO) and its Members have successfully run a global emergency operation called “STOP” against illegal trafficking linked to COVID-19, the report on which was presented at an online conference today, 6 October 2020. Operation STOP is the WCO’s immediate and urgent response, working with 99 Member administrations and its network of Regional Intelligence Liaison Offices (RILOs), to the resurgence in illegal trafficking of medicines and medical supplies, including those linked to the COVID-19 pandemic....Read more...
WCO celebrates International Customs Day 2020 and invites Members to foster Sustainability for People, Prosperity and the Planet...Read more...
At the invitation of the African Union (AU) and Mr. Dicksons Kateshumbwa, Commissioner of Customs in the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) and WCO Council Chair, WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya attended the 11th Ordinary Meeting of the AU Sub-Committee of Directors General of Customs (AUSCDGC), held in Kampala, Uganda on 19 and 20 September 2019....Read more...
Yours Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,
Comorian Customs has made great strides in what we have agreed. It dematerializes the procedures, deepens transparency to raise the level of moral and professional ethics and thus neutralizes corruption, strengthens the capacities of customs officers and customs auxiliaries, sanctions whenever necessary to always raise the level of requirement. Applications for authorization to ratify international agreements are pending in the National Assembly and will soon allow them to be incorporated into national legislation....Read more...
The head of the office of origin participated in almost all the technical meetings of the experts organized during the last ten years. He returns to the major reforms undertaken by Comoros without neglecting the challenges that the country must meet to be in phase with the policy of economic integration....Read more...
"Combatting Corruption in Customs to effectively implement the African Continental Free Trade Area" was the theme of the 10th meeting of the Sub-Committee of Directors General of Customs of the African Union, opened yesterday in Comoros, Moroni by the Minister of Economy, Investments, in charge of Economic Integration, Bianrifi Tharmidhi. For three days now, a panel of experts from the continent has been examining all the issues relating to the integration of African countries into an economic space by examining the obstacles which must be overcome, the legal framework to be created and the will to seek to accelerate the process of implementing a Continental Free Trade Area in Africa....Read more...
Albert M. Muchanga and Kunio Mikuriya, respectively the Commissioner for Trade and Industry of the African Union and the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization have been in Moroni since yesterday afternoon. They are accompanied by the Directors General of Customs of Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Botswana, Nigeria and Uganda to attend the 10th Ordinary Meeting of the Sub-Committee of Directors General of Customs of the Union African....Read more...
