Venue: The Stanhope Hotel, Brussels, Belgium
Background
This Annual Conference, organised by The British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium, now in its third year, is established as the leading forum of its kind in Brussels.
It aims to gather the border control and customs communities alongside EU and international policy makers and stakeholders, to discuss opportunities for collaboration across customs and border management agencies, particularly in the area of information sharing and how this process can support smarter and more secure borders and agencies, which ultimately facilitate trade and travel.
Collaborative Border Management, as a concept, is about engagement between regulatory authorities, border management and customs agencies, the trading community and transport and supply chain partners. By simplifying the sharing of information between partners, supported by technology, trusted traders and travellers can avail of facilitated and more streamlined border clearance facilities, allowing customs and border agencies to focus scarce resources on higher risk individuals and cargo.
The event aims to both showcase innovative technologies and processes that can address some of the border management challenges, while also addressing the key political and policy dimensions which underpin them.
The conference will therefore set out the future policy objectives in the area of customs and border management in Europe and examine how collaborative border management, in terms of both information sharing and practical cooperation, can support the achievement of those objectives.
Over the course of the event we will look at models for information sharing and risk management being adopted in Europe and lessons learned from the implementation of customs and border management programmes globally, both in terms of inter-agency collaboration but also cooperation between agencies and trading, transport and supply-chain partners. The conference will conclude with a look at the practical considerations of implementing collaborative border management within and between agencies and the technology and processes to support this.
Agenda
08:30-09:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:00-09:15 Opening Remarks
09:15-10:45 Session 1: Setting the Scene: The future of customs and border management in Europe - A role for Collaborative Border Management?
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Session 2: Supporting Smart and Secure Borders: The role of intelligence led risk management and customer segmentation
12:45-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:45 Session 3: What are the lessons learned from existing programmes?
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:45 Session 4: Delivering smart secure borders through collaborative border management: What are the implementation considerations?
17:45-18:00 Conference Conclusion
Booking
The delegate rates for this conference are:
Please register on line at: http://www.eu-ems.com/register.asp?event_id=99
For further information on this event, please go to: www.bordermanagement.eu
or contact Charlene Selmer on +44 (0) 2920 783 024 or charlene@britcham.be.