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Greater co-operation between Border Control Agencies domestically
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Greater international co-operation between Customs administrations and with other Border Control Agencies
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Greater co-operation between Border Control Agencies and carriers363
In order to ful.l the roles of the CCC, the system of API can facilitate such an information system by:
4.1.4[...] (a) Providing its Members with information on the technique of API bene.ts it can bring;
(b) Providing a forum in which the constraints on API can be discussed and hopefully resolved; and
361Refer to the Kyoto Convention, at Annex J at Article 5.5: “Recommended Practice 8: The Customs, in co-operation with other agencies and the trade, should seek to use internationally standardized advance passenger information, where available, in order to facilitate the Customs control of travellers and the clearance of goods carried by them”.
362Kyoto Convention, at Annex J at Article 5.5.
363Facilitation Division, “Eleventh Session Information Paper on Advance Passenger Information
(API) Guidelines adopted by the WCO” (Montreal, April 1995) ICAO Doc FAL/11-IP/2 at point 3.
D. The Passenger Name Record
(c) Seeking to jointly agreed standards with the airline industry so that API does not develop and proliferate in an inconsistent or unstructured way.364
InAprilof2002,duringaFacilitationPanelinMontreal onAPI,it recommended:
The usage of API for immigration, quarantine and aviation security (AVSEC)
applications to customs.
The internet or other PC-based systems and wireless technologies should be
considered for the exchange of data rather than specify UN/EDIFACT syntax for
data interchange.
API should be part of a border system management, machine readable pass-
ports with electronic visas, automated entry/exit records instead of embarkation
or disembarkation cards and as well as interoperability of API systems with other
States.
Applicable Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) should leave the
possibility of including biometrics into article3.34 of Annex9 (11th Edition).
ICAO should measure the programme’s success in operational ef.ciencyand
reduction of airport congestion.365
The API topic became more and more a priority during the 1993/1994/1995 triennium and IATA comprehended in a greater capacity the necessity for API implementation.366 IATA and the WCO formally introduced the formal WCO/ IATA guidelines in 1993 following the Working Paper presented by the ICAO Secretariat during the 11th Session.367 In the preamble of the guideline,368 it
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