As part of the renewal of the regional programme supported by funding from the Government of Japan for the period 2020-2022, a technical assistance mission in customs administration of the Department of Public Finance (FAD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) began with a video conference on Wednesday, 3 June 2020. The mission is led by Johanne Russell (from Canada) and Christopher Grigoriou (from Switzerland), FAD experts. The objectives of the mission are (i) to provide guidance to the authorities to develop and operationalize the customs data analysis function, (ii) to review the situation and to provide assistance and advice on the monitoring and management of special regimes (iii) to evaluate the measures taken to combat the spread of Covid-19.

Since Wednesday, all the technical directorates have contributed to the success of this mission through their effective participation in the various video conferences planned.

The opening ceremony was chaired by video conference by the Inspector General of Services, Colonel AMOUSSU MENAGON, representing the Director General prevented.

It should be recalled that the mission will last two (02) weeks and will end on Wednesday 17 June 2020 with a restitution session to be chaired by the Director General of Customs and Indirect Rights.

Benin Customs are moving forward, let's move on with it!