The Nineteenth Meeting of the Committee of Experts of the Conference of General Customs Directors of the WCO Region of West and Central Africa, was held at Coco Ocean Resort hotel, Banjul, The Gambia, from 20-22 November 2017.

The opening ceremony was chaired by Madame TAMBAJANG Fatoumatta JallowVice-President of the Republic of Gambia.

This important meeting, on the agenda of the activities of the WCO/WCO Region, recorded the participation of twelve (12) member administrations of the Region, out of a total of twenty-three (23), the Vice-President, the WCO Secretariat, the Regional Capacity Building Office, the Regional Training Centres in Ouagadougou, Brazzaville and Abuja, the Regional Liaison Offices responsible for Western Africa and Central Africa.

Four countries were designated as rapporteurs. These are Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, the Gambia host country and Sierra Leone.

At the end of the work, recommendations were made by the experts both to the WCO secretariat, to the various Customs administrations and to the Regional Working Group on the Development of Informatics.

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