Impact of the RACWeB projectCustoms Administration of Serbia

Gordana Dzamic

IT Division

Customs Administration of Serbia

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Risk Assessment for Customs in Western Balkan

The RACWeB project (Contract No. 045101)

Co-funded by the European Commission under the “Information Society Technologies” Sixth Framework Programme (2002 – 2006)

www.racweb.org

Started on 1st January 2007, duration 30 months

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4 EU technology/scientific partners

Who is involved?

Planet S.A. Project Coordinator, Consulting, User Requirements analysis, Current customs situation analysis, Pilot running and evaluation, Dissemination and exploitation planning.

Intrasoft S.A. Technology provider, Deep knowledge of customs procedures, Business Process Model, Development of tools for risk assessment, Integration set-up and testing of risk assessment platform.

Agilis S.A. Technology provider, Development of knowledge discovery algorithms for risk assessment, Development of tools for risk assessment.

Frauenhofer Technology and Scientific provider, Research institute competent in knowledge discovery/data mining, Development of knowledge discovery algorithms for risk assessment, Development of tools for risk assessment, Design and development of self-learning module .

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4 central Customs Administrations & 3 IT consulting companies

Who is involved?

Customs Administration of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Faculty of Economics - University of Ss Cyril and Methodius

General Directorate of Albanian Customs

CCENTER Engineering and Consulting

Customs Administration of the Republic of Montenegro

EXIT IT Business Support Centre

Customs Administration of the Republic of Serbia

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Risk Assessment in MF - CAS

2003. – cooperation with CAFAO (Customs and Fiscal Assistance Office) resulted with implementing RA

2004. – Random criterion was implemented, followed by rest of criteria: Consignee, Declarant…

2007. – RACWeB

Today: Still using same RA IT system Organizational problems are partly solved “Strategy of Managing Risks in Customs Administration of Serbia” is being

created – through it, it is expected that RA would have defined development plan with specified aims

Importance of RA is brought on the highest level

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Introducing RACWeB and it’s purpose and significance to the IT Department and rest of Serbian Customs Administration Why new techniques? Why data mining? Why giving data? What is the improvement RACWeB would bring to

current RA system? Safeness?

The start

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National level Comprehending the difference between current techniques used

in RA and new techniques which open new world for detecting frauds

Improvement of risk management Improvement of national RA IT system Paying attention to the Inward processing which is not ‘explored’

comparing to some other customs procedures Strong support of top management

Regional level Besides improving national system, western countries

cooperation and trust are must for development of overall region

RACWeB till now

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Results: detecting frauds in unexplored field of inward processing that will have multiple effects (companies, offences, patterns..), which would trigger other Customs departments and other agencies i.e. Audit Control, Customs Investigations, Tax Administration…

Change of approach to RA itself through proofing the development brought by using new, “smart” techniques

Strong regional cooperation Compatible system used in all countries – easier and

prompt communication has direct impact on better results

Faster but safer trade

Vision

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Architecture of RACWeB platform

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THANK YOU

Gordana Dzamic

dzamicg@fcs.yu

Customs Administration

Republic of Serbia

Impact on the RACWeB Project in theWestern Balkan Customs Administrations