BIMP-EAGA(Brunei Darussalam Indonesia Malaysia and the Philippines

East ASEAN Growth Area)

The First

Customs –Immigration –

Quarantine – Security (CIQS)

Task Force Meeting

Manila, 21-22 August 2006

Wahono Diphayana

History

BIMP-EAGA was formally launch on 14

March 1994 during the occasion of the

Inaugural Senior Officials and Ministers

Meetings (SOM/MM) in Davao City,

Philippines.

This sub-regional economic cooperation is a

key strategy of the participating governments

to promote socio-economic development in

their less developed and more remote

territories

Composition

It comprises the entire sultanate of Brunei

Darussalam; the provinces of Kalimantan,

Sulawesi, Maluku and Irian Jaya in Indonesia;

the states of Sabah and Sarawak and the

federal territory of Labuan in Malaysia and

the island of Mindanao and the province of

Palawan in the Philippines

Composition

BIMP-EAGA Roadmap to

Development (2006-2010)

Increase intra- and extra-trade among EAGA focus areas by 10% by 2010;

Increase investments in the EAGA subregion by 10% by 2010; and

Increase tourism movement in the EAGA subregion by 20% by 2010.

Ultimate Goal: Narrow the development gap across and within the EAGA member countries as well as across the ASEAN-6 countries

Targets:

Immediate Goal: Increase trade, investments and tourism within EAGA

uarantine (Animal, Plant, Fisheries)

Harmonize quarantine rules, regulations andprocedures based on WTO and ASEANagreements

Health Quarantine

Create a task force composed of BIMP healthquarantine offices

Come-up with directory of BIMP healthquarantine offices

Conduct meetings and exchange visits to ports

Set-up a yellow fever vaccination center inDavao City

Highlights of the 1st BIMP-EAGA CIQS

Conference, 9-11 July 2002, Davao City

Institutional Arrangement

A sub-regional institution was devised to

operationalize the BIMP-EAGA sub-regional

economic cooperation:-

Senior Officials and Ministerial Meeting

(SOM/MM)

Working Group Clusters

BIMP-EAGA Facilitation Centre

National Secretariats

BIMP-EAGA Business Council (BEBC)

Development Partners and Multilateral Partner

Organizations

Institutional Arrangement

IN COUNTRY EAGA - WIDE PRIVATE SECTOR

National Secretariat

In-Country

Stakeholders

ASEAN Secretariat

BIMP-FC

Working Group

Clusters

ADB

BEBC Secretariat

Focal Organizations

Other Development

Partners

Signing Minister

Senior Official

Ministerial Meeting

Senior Officials

MeetingBEBC

SOM / MM

SOM / MM is the highest decision-making body

It is the venue for formally reporting progress of implementation of sub-regional cooperation measures / programmes and discussion of high-level implementation issues as well as matters to be brought to the attention of EAGA Leaders

Informal SOM (ISOM) is the venue for more informal problem-solving and decision-making especially for EAGA issues that need urgent attention in between SOM/MMs

Clusters

The Clusters serves as the coordinator and

facilitator of implementation of sub-regional

cooperation measures / programmes in their

respective priority sectors

The Clusters comprise of public agencies and

private sector organizations of member

countries involved in the implementation of

priority projects and activities under the

cooperation measures / programmes

Clusters

There are four Clusters:-

Transport, Infrastructure and ICT

Development (TIICTD) Cluster (Chaired by

Brunei Darussalam)

Natural Resources Development (NRD)

Cluster (Chaired by Indonesia)

Joint Tourism Development (JTD) Cluster

(Chaired by Malaysia)

Small & Medium Enterprises Development

(SMED) Cluster (Chaired by the Philippines)

Customs, Immigration, Quarantine and Security

(CIQS) Task Force (Chaired by the Philippines)

BIMP-EAGA Facilitation Centre

The BIMP-EAGA Facilitation Centre serves

as the secretariat to SOM / MM as well as

coordinator and facilitator of sub-regional

public sector activities in BIMP-EAGA

National Secretariats

The National Secretariat of each member

country serves as the secretariat and

coordinator for all in-country public sector

EAGA-related activities

BIMP-EAGA Business Council (BEBC)

BEBC is the representative of the BIMP-

EAGA private sector and is accorded 5th

country status at the SOM

The BEBC Secretariat is the private sector

counterpart of BIMP-FC

The BEBC In-Country Focal Organizations

are counterpart of the National Secretariats in

the member countries

Development Partners

Development Partners help to mobilize its

resources to implement cooperation

measures / programmes to expand trade,

investment and tourism with BIMP-EAGA

BIMP-EAGA currently has two Development

Partners:-

People’s Republic of China

Northern Territory of Australia

Multilateral Partner Organizations

Multilateral partner organizations provide advisory services and technical guidance as well as help to mobilize its resources to support EAGA development activities

BIMP-EAGA currently has three important multilateral partner organizations :-

Asian Development Bank (ADB) (is also BIMP-EAGA’s Regional Cooperation Advisor)

ASEAN Secretariat

German Technical Cooperation Agency (GTZ)

1. The Lead Country of the CIQS Task Force is the

Philippines.

2. The champion of Quarantine Sector is Indonesia.

3. With the assistance of Development Partners and/or

Multilateral Partner Organizations :

(a) Conduct of training among quarantine officers

and professionals in the sub-region;

(b) Conduct of Public Awareness Programs for

key stakeholders in each Member Countries;

(c) Construction and/or upgrading of quarantine

facilities in ports with no quarantine facilities;

Agreement on Quarantine in the 1st BIMP-

EAGA CIQS Task Force Meeting, 21-22

August 2006, Manila, Philippines

(d) Compilation, consolidation and dissemination of

quarantine information of Member Countries to

BIMP-EAGA stakeholders using the BIMP-EAGA

official website (by December 2006); and

(e) Completion of the BIMP-EAGA CIQS Primer to

disseminate CIQS Information to BIMP-EAGA

Stakeholders (to also include Customs,

Immigration and Security) (by December 2006).

4. Indonesia and Malaysia will hyper-link their CIQS

agencies websites to the BIMP-EAGA website by

September 2006.

Agreement on Quarantine in the 1st BIMP-

EAGA CIQS Task Force Meeting, 21-22

August 2006, Manila, Philippines