PICARD 2011
Preliminary agenda for the conference

PICARD Conference 2011

“Promote Research-based Knowledge to Support Customs Decision-making”

Geneva, 14-16 September 2011

Draft Agenda (as of 20.8.2011)

 

 Wednesday, September 14, afternoon (2.30pm – 5.30pm)

 

 Welcome 

  • CBRA: Dr. Juha Hintsa
  • INCU: Prof. David Widdowson
  • UNECE: Mr. Andrey Vasilyev, Deputy Executive Secretary
  • WCO: Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General

 

 Overview and current status of PICARD program and INCU 
  • Update on WCO Capacity Building initiatives, Mr. Erich Kieck, WCO Director Capacity Building;
  • PICARD Programme – an overview, Ms. Heike Barczyk, WCO Deputy Director Capacity Building
  • Regional academic initiatives in the Customs area, presented by PICARD Advisory Group Members 

Where do we stand today with PICARD professional standards, and where are we heading to?

  • PICARD Professional standards: Dr. Juha Hintsa, CBRA
  • WCO Framework of Principles and Practices for Customs Career Path and Development, Ms. Bénédicte Meille, WCO HR Development Coordinator
  • Discussion
 

 Additional announcements:

  • INCU updates by Mr. Mikhail Kashubsky, INCU

 The role of the UNECE legal instruments for border crossing facilitiation

  • Presentation by Mrs. Eva Molnar, Director of UNECE Transport Division
 

 Empirical research informing Customs decision making

  • Presentation by Prof. David Widdowson, INCU

 

Brief introduction to the CBRA research team
(team members who are on-site for the conference organization)

  • Dr. Luca Urciuoli , Dr. Sangeeta Mohanty , PhD student Juha Ahokas , Mr. Toni Männistö ,  Ms. Susan Wilander
 
 
 6.00 – 8.30 pm: Cocktail Reception at the United Nations Terrace
 
 
 

 Thursday, September 15, morning (9.30am – 12.30pm)

 

Customs-academic research papers – Session A

THEME1: ”Coordinated Border Management” 

  • Coordinated Border Management- Experience of the Asia and Pacific Regions, Mr. Sandeep Raj Jain, UN ESCAP, Thailand
  • Coordinated Border Management: from Theory to Practice, Ms. Mariya Polner, WCO Research Unit
  • Cross Border Regulatory Controls without Boundaries, Mr. Anders Hellberg, Swedish Customs

THEME2: ”Performance Measurement of Customs” 

  •       Extended logistical factors for success in international trade, Prof. Dr. Franz Vallée, Mr. Michael Dircksen, University of Applied Science Münster, Germany

  • Developing of Performance Measurement for Russian Customs Service, Prof. Alexey Gubin, Russian Customs Academy
  • Performance measurement : the experience of French Customs, Mr. Xavier Pascual, Management Control Unit, General Directorate of Customs and Excise, France
 

Thursday, September 15, afternoon (2.30 – 5.30pm)

 

2.30pm: Keynote speeches (speech topics to be confirmed) 

  • Collaborative Border Management, M. Christian Etter, Ambassador; Federal Council Delegate for Trade Agreements; Head of the Special Foreign Economic Service Division of SECO
  • Serving Trade and Security, Mr. Robert Lüssi, Vice-Director and Head of Main Division, Swiss Federal Customs Administration
  • Risk Management and Trade Facilitation. Mr. John Broadhurst, Vice President, Cotecna Inspection

 

Customs-academic research papers – Session B

THEME 3: ”Economic security and poverty reduction”

 

  •       Developing the case for trade facilitation in practice, Dr. Andrew Grainger, Nottingham University Business School, UK

  • Reversing the trend:  Low cost and low risk methods for assuring proper duty payments, Mr. Holm Kappler, Meeks, Sheppard, Leo & Pillsbury, USA 

THEME 4: ”Integrity”

  •       Integrity signals end to roller coaster ride – a Customs+Trade partnership approach to corruption, Mr. Ashok Sadhwani, Asmara U.S.A. Inc., Los Angeles, US, and Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

  • Academe-industry partnership: an impetus in strengthening teaching and research of customs administration in the Philippine higher educational institutions, Mr. Samuel C. Bautista, AIR 21 Academy of Developmental Logistics, Philippines

Short comments by WCO and PICARD Advisory Group Members on all the research paper presentations.
6.30pm – 9pm Gala dinner, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
 
 
 

 Friday, September 16, morning (9.30am – 12.30pm)

 
 Short presentations on on-going efforts and expectations in customs related research and education 

  • Speakers to be confirmed

 

 

Panel discussion on on-going and future customs education, research and capacity building

  • Mr. Jean-Pierre Lattion (SECO, Switzerland), Mr. Didier Reymond, (Executive Vice President, Cotecna Inspection), Ms. Simone N’Diaye-van den Berg (Dutch Customs), Dr. Biljan (University of St. Kliment Ohridski-Bitola, Macedonia), Mr. Erich Kieck (WCO Capacity Building), Mr. Tadashi Yasui (WCO Research Unit), Mr. Rainer Mueller (ISL, Germany), Mr. Toni Männistö (CBRA), Mr. Juha Ahokas (CBRA) - plus couple of more participants will be added by 9.9.2011.
 Closing words
 

12.30pm - END of the Conference