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Link WCO SAFE Package
In June 2005 the
WCO Council adopted the SAFE Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate
Global Trade (SAFE Framework) that would act as a deterrent to international
terrorism, to secure revenue collections and to promote trade facilitation
worldwide. In 2007, the WCO’s flagship Customs-Business partnership programme -
the Authorized Economic Operators (AEO) Programme - was introduced.
The SAFE Framework has emerged as the global Customs community’s concerted
response to threats to supply chain security, equally supporting facilitation
of legitimate and secure businesses. It prescribes baseline standards that have
been tested and are working well around the globe. This unique international
instrument endeavors to usher in a safer world trade regime and also heralds a
new approach to working methods and partnership for both Customs and business
towards a common goal based on trust.
The Framework
has been regularly updated to effectively address new and emerging developments
in international supply chains. Notable additions were provisions on AEO
Programme, Coordinated Border Management and Trade Continuity and Resumption,
Pillar 3 (Customs-to-Other Government and Inter-Government Agencies), and
Pre-loading Advance Cargo Information (ACI) for air cargo.
The 2021 version
of the SAFE Framework: strengthens co-operation between Customs and Other Government
Agencies; promotes smart security devices to optimize Customs control and
effectively monitor the movement of goods in a real-time basis; and, includes
baseline provisions on the development of regional Customs union AEO programmes
and the implementation of mutual recognition.
The updated SAFE
Framework further enhances data elements by aligning the dataset on air cargo
security with the data elements specified in the WCO’s Data Model and
consolidates the reporting mechanisms on the implementation of the SAFE
Framework.
Against the
backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, to bolster the resilience and recovery of
global supply chains, the “AEO Implementation and Validation Guidance” was
developed by upgrading the three current documents “AEO Implementation
Guidance”, “AEO Template” and “Customs AEO Validator Guide”. The new Guidance
brings together the best practices, knowledge and lessons learned from Members
in order to simplify the AEO implementation process and align the AEO
requirements with Customs validation processes. It also introduces a suggested
approach to virtual re-validations and the use of modern technologies to
support business continuity and to ensure the resilience of the AEO programmes
during a pandemic.
In addition, the
SAFE Package 2021 includes, among other things, a number of new and updated
tools such as the “Regional Customs union AEO programmes and plurilateral MRAs”
(annex V of the existing AEO MRA Strategy Guide), the AEO Compendium 2020
edition, the Secretariat Note on expanding the concept of AEO to cross-border
e-commerce, the Unified File Format (UFF) 2.0 Technical Specification, two
updates of the WCO Guidelines for the Procurement and Deployment of
Scanning/NII Equipment (NII Guidelines), joint WCO-ICAO Guidelines on Alignment
of the Customs AEO and Aviation Security Regulated Agent ((RA)/Known Consignor
(KC) programmes and last but not least the joint WCO-ICAO Guiding principles on
Pre-loading Advance Cargo Information (PLACI).
As capacity
building assistance remains a vital part of the SAFE implementation strategy,
the WCO will reinforce its capacity building efforts in meeting the needs of
Customs and stakeholders in a structured and ongoing manner that will ensure
harmonization and sustainable implementation of the Framework.
The WCO
Secretariat hopes that Members of the Organization and its partners from the
business community and other international organizations will find the SAFE
Package and its contents a valuable aid both in understanding the dynamics of
this major WCO instrument and in its global application and implementation.
Table of
Contents
I. SAFE Framework of Standards to
Secure and Facilitate Global Trade - 2021 edition [*ar] [*es] [*ru]
II. Instruments and guidelines relating to the
first pillar (Customs-to-Customs)
Customs Guidelines on
Integrated Supply Chain Management [es] [ru]
Guidelines for the Procurement
and Deployment of Scanning/NII Equipment
SAFE Data Element Maintenance
Mechanism [es] [ru]
Advance Cargo Information (ACI)
Implementation Guidance
Handbook of the Customs
Convention on Containers, 1972
III. Instruments and guidelines relating to the
second pillar (Customs-to-Business and Authorized Economic Operator)
AEO Implementation and
Validation Guidance [ar] [es] [ru]
Model AEO Appeal Procedures [es] [ru]
The Authorized Economic
Operator and the Small and Medium Enterprise (FAQ) [ar][es][pt][ru]
Strategy Guide for AEO Mutual
Recognition [ru]
FAQ on linkages between the
SAFE Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) programme and article 7.7 of the WTO
Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) [ru]
WCO guidelines on trader
identification number (TIN)
Secretariat Note on Expanding
the concept of AEO to Free Zone Stakeholders (2nd edition)
IV. Instruments and guidelines relating to the
third pillar (Cooperation between Customs and other Government and Inter-Government
agencies)
Coordinated Border Management
Compendium
Single Window Compendium - Volume 1 Volume 2
Joint WCO/ICAO Brochure [ar] [ch] [es] [ru]
Joint WCO-ICAO Guiding
Principles for Pre-Loading Advance Cargo Information (PLACI) [ar] [ch] [es] [ru]
Moving Air Cargo Globally - Air Cargo and Mail Secure Supply Chain and Facilitation [ar] [ch] [ru] [sp]
NEW - Guidelines on Cooperation between Customs and Port
Authorities
V. Trade Recovery Guidelines [es] [ru]
VI. Others tools of interest for the implementation of the SAFE FoS
Customs-Business Partnership
Guidance [es]
Recommendation on CSDs
(Container Security Devices) (June 2013)
Data Analysis Practitioner's
Handbook (June 2018)
Cover:
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* This translation
has been provided by the Regional Office for Capacity Building for the North of
Africa, Near and Middle East Region
* Text translated
into Spanish from the original English and French versions of the SAFE
Framework of Standards- 2012, with the kind collaboration of Argentina’s
Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos (AFIP).