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UNECE – centre for Transport Agreements

UNECE promotes safe, high-quality, affordable, and environmentally sound inland transport. Our approach to border crossing facilitation reduces waiting times, promotes international trade, and supports sustainable development.

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UNECE – centre for Transport Agreements

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  1. UNECE – centre for Transport Agreements

  2. UNECE Division on Sustainable Transport • Inland transport that is: • safe, • high quality, affordable and accessible to all, • ecologically sound, • environmentally viable and • a positive contribution to national and international sustainable development

  3. UNECE’s 3600 approach to Border crossing facilitation :

  4. Border crossing facilitation : On some major routes, 57 % of transport time islost at border crossings. • Long waiting times at borders result in major human suffering for drivers blocked in queues for hours/days • harmful impact on the environment • Border waiting times also cost billions annually => increasing the cost of goods for the end consumer, not to mention lost business opportunities. Border crossing facilitation is: • Key to international trade, exports and imports • Essential for growth and competiveness • A driver of regional integration

  5. Crossing borders requires: • Appropriate and resilient infrastructure • Reliable and harmonized international legal framework • Harmonized or at least aligned procedures (e.g. customs) • International cooperation and exchange of best practices

  6. Albania is a Contracting Party to 30 UN transport Conventions:

  7. The TIR Convention, 1975 • Global United Nations Convention; • Establishes and regulates the onlyexisting and operational global customs transit system; • Administered by the establishedTreaty bodies in Geneva under UNECE auspices. Geneva, 26 May 2016

  8. The Harmonization Convention, 1982 - International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods - 56 Contracting Parties - Objective: To facilitate cross border transport of goods through nationally coordinated, internationally harmonized, shorter, reduced formalities and controls of goods at borders

  9. OSCE-UNECE Handbook of Best Practices at Border Crossings – A Trade and Transport Facilitation Perspective • Reference material and more than 120 best practice examples at border crossings. • It covers available legal instruments, inter-agency and international co-operation, balancing security and facilitation measures, processing of freight, risk management, design of border crossing points, use of ICT technologies, human resource management and benchmarking. • Available at:http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/bcf/publications/OSCE-UNECE_Handbook.pdf • Available in the Albanian language

  10. Road Safety • Just past the mid-point of the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-2020) • Launched, in 2015, the Road Safety Performance reviews (UNDA-funded, UNECE in collaboration with UNECLAC and UNESCAP) • First RS Performance Review of Albania underway • Will result in recommendations on critical issues of improving road safety in Albania • 2 year project

  11. Recommendations • Intergovernmental and Inter-institutional cooperation in order to: • Support sustainable transport through policy dialogue, analysis, capacity building and legal framework; • Encourage the development of internationally harmonized and integrated transport policies; • Assist in developing national and urban sustainable mobility strategies; • Implement the UN Transport Conventions and other legal instruments - in particular those related to facilitation of international transport, road safety, transport of dangerous goods, vehicle safety and environmental performance; • Support connectivity through harmonized infrastructure development.

  12. UNECE/TIR SECRETARIAT 8-14, Avenue de PaixCH-1211 Geneva 10Switzerland Phone: +41 22 917 23 92 Email address: Ariadne.Abel@unece.org

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