OLAF – WCO DATA
September 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLOLAF, the European Union's anti-fraud office, has agreed to electronically transmit intelligence and statistical data on cigarette smuggling to the World Customs Organisation (WCO). A technical option is to be created within OLAF's Anti-Fraud Information System and Ciginfo databanks allowing their data to be sent to the WCO Customs Enforcement Network system (CEN). Said a note from the EU agency: "This will improve the timeliness of global trend analysis and assist enforcement targeting activity in the WCO's 162 member countries," allowing them to ...
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