COMPUTERIZATION. Bilateral Screening Chapter 29 Customs Union Presentation by the Republic of Serbia Brussels, 3-4 June 2014

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1 COMPUTERIZATION Bilateral Screening Chapter 29 Customs Union Presentation by the Republic of Serbia Brussels, 3-4 June 2014

2 CONTENT 1) Legal Framework 2) Strategic documents 3) Short historical overview 4) IT human resources 5) Current state 6) Recently Completed Projects 7) Ongoing projects 8) International Cooperation & Funding 9) Vision 10) The Way Forward 11) Challenges 2

3 LEGAL FRAMEWORK the Customs Law the Regulation on the Customs-Approved treatment of Goods the Law on Electronic Signature the Law on Electronic Document 3

4 STRATEGIC DOCUMENTS CAS Business Strategy CAS Business Plan CAS IT Strategy IIS Strategy Strategy for development of information society till 2020 (Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunication) National Interoperability Framework 2014 (Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunication) IBM Strategy 4

5 3. SHORT HISTORICAL OVERVIEW of CAS COMPUTERIZATION

6 4. IT HUMAN RESOURCES DESIGN, PROGRAMMING AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT DESIGN AND PROGRAMING UNIT SOFTWARE SUPPORT UNIT STATISTICS AND REPORTING UNIT IT DIVISION ASSISTANT DIRECTOR GENERAL SYSTEM SUPPORT & DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT SYSTEM SUPPORT ON CENTRAL PLATFORM UNIT SYSTEM SUPPORT ON LOCAL SERVERS UNIT SYSTEM SUPPORT ON PC PLATFORM UNIT COMMUNICATI ON DEVELOPMENT UNIT ADMINISTRAT IVE CLERK TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND COORDINATION DEPARTMENT TECHNICAL SUPPORT UNIT USERS SERVICE UNIT IT INVENTORY CONTROL UNIT IT COORDINATION UNIT-NORTH IT COORDINATION UNIT-SOUTH IT COORDINATION UNIT-CENTER IT SECURITY UNIT 1.Total number of job positions: Staff fluctuation : - 13 left - 10 employed 3. Staff Educational Structure: - University degree: ~63% - Higher education : ~10% - Secondary education: ~27% IT COORDINATION UNIT-WEST 6

7 5. CURRENT STATE -FUNCTIONAL : 7/24/365 -USERS: - Internal Users: ~ 2600 Customs officers, located at: the Headquarters in Belgrade, 15 customs houses, 73 customs posts and 62 customs units - External Users: 1591 legal entities registered for ESD, legal entities have an agr. on e -business, digital certificates currently used CAS APPLICATION PLATFORM Subsystems : 1. General subsystem 2. Regulations 3. Transit ISCS 4. Clearance 5. Administrative and offence procedures 6. Human resource management 7. Revenue collection 8. Statistics 9. Customs Passenger /Postal Declaration 10. Risk Analysis 11. Electronic submission of declarations 1. Sirius Web portal applications 3. BI 4. SEED 5. Application for post-clearance audit 6. eipr 7. TIR services 8. elearning Other Applications & Services 9. Simplified Procedures (Local Customs Clearance) 10. Centralized management of bank guarantees 11. Bank Guarantees Check Service 12. Bank Guarantees Analytics Service 7

8 MAIN APPL. FUNCTIONALITIES 8

9 Cooperation with Government & Business Community IRU Anti Money Laundering Administration SEED Tax Administration Ministries of Serbia Tresury Administration ISCS Public Enterprises Foreign Exchange Inspectorate Serbian Chamber of Commerce Statistical Office of The Republic of Serbia National Bank of Serbia e - Data Exchange Data Exchange 9

10 HW INFRASTRUCTURE 10

11 COMMUNICATION NETWORK 11

12 6. RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS PROJECT Implemented 1 Business Intelligence Feb Message Queue Introduction June Centralized Management of Bank Guarantees March Bank Guarantees Analytics Service March

13 7. ONGOING PROJECTS NCTS - 1 st EU SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION Expected results of the Project: 1. NCTS + GMS 2. RMS (ERIAN) 3. AEO 4. Feasibility study for the procedures in Transport by rail, river and air. IT activities in Project: 1. Defining & adoption of: - Functional specifications - Integration & Design specifications 2. Introducing Business Community & SW Vendors with the Project 3. Definition of prerequisites for NCTS Implementation & Integration 13

14 NCTS -IT activities on Project, in accordance with Serbian NPP: Test environment for AEO Preparation the infrastructure for the TEST env Migration to the new mainframe Forming DWH group, working on ETL processes ISCS & NCTS Integration Preparation the infrastructure for the PROD. env. 7 Server structure consolidation 8 Back-up lines Troubleshooting in PILOT & NA ph 9 RD - Introduction 10 ISCS changes i order to integrate ERIAN CCN Brussels, 3-4 June

15 NCTS-CCN/CSI 1. Provided: The team for establishing the CCN/CSI The space for housing equipment Technical requirement in accordance with TAXUD request 2. Planned, according NPP: CCN/CSI equipment delivery in Nov th January The beginning of NA NCTS CCN/CSI installation till Feb 2015 Pre-conformance & conformance tests: Feb-May 2015 Convention on a common transit procedure 1 st June

16 TARIS 1. TARIS based upon EU TARIC 2. In line with TARIC principles and rules 3. Additions for NA Legislation 4. TARIS consists of : TARIS Database (TARIC2 DB structure) TARIS Application 5. TARIS is planned to be integrated with the ISCS 6. TARIS is planned to be put on the CAS website for public use, free of charge. 7. Assessment of remodeling TARIS into TARIC 16

17 OTHER ONGOING PROJECTS ISCS Improvement & prerequisites for NCTS implementation 1. MIGRATION TO NEW MAINFRAME (from z/800 to z/bc12) HW installed System SW Installation is ongoing Test environment planned to be ready by June 2014 Production environment planned to be ready by Sept DOMAIN CONSOLIDATION Expected result: SINGLE DOMAIN, instead of 3 actual 3. SERVER STRUCTURE CONSOLIDATION 1 st step in phase transition from distributed to centralized processing Expected result: 1 powerful server, instead of 50 servers in the field. 4. ISCS APPLICATION ADJUSTMENT Expected result: prerequisite for NCTS&ISCS Integration fulfilled 17

18 8. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND FUNDING 1. IPA Administrative capacity building of the Customs Administration for the full implementation of the common EU transit procedure Budget 1,5million (technical assistance 1million, equipment supply 0,5million) 2. IPA Modernization of the Customs System: Budget 4,1 million - technical assistance 3. Multi-beneficiary IPA 2010: Systematic Electronic Exchange of Data (SEED) Maintenance Budget 1,3 million 4. Norwegian Bilateral Assistance- TARIS Budget 200 thousand 5. Norwegian Bilateral Assistance- BI Budget

19 9. VISION OBJECTIVES: 1. To provide IT Support for: Facilitation of import & export procedures Reduction of customs procedures costs Coordination a common approach to control of goods Defence the NA financial interests Facilitation of the NA & international supply-chain logistics 2. To be in line with: Decision n 70/2008/EC 19

20 3. TO BECOME A PART OF: COMMON DOMAIN TRANS-EUROPEAN SYSTEMS - FAMILY 3rd country Traders Traders Traders Traders SPEED NA NA NA NA IE IE NA Common Domain NA IE Traders Traders National Domain Traders Traders NA IE NA External Domain 20

21 4. To provide CAS with existing EU IT Systems : Integrated Tariff Environment NCTS ECS ICS EOS AIS AES 5. To align future IT development with MASP 21

22 10. THE WAY FORWARD 1. TO COMPLETE ONGOING PROJECTS: MIGRATION TO NEW MAINFRAME DOMAIN CONSOLIDATION SERVER STRUCTURE CONSOLIDATION ISCS APPLICATION ADJUSTMENT TARIS NCTS 22

23 2. TO SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENT IPA 2013 PROJECT: SUPPORT TO FURTHER MODERNISATION OF THE CAS AND IMPROVED BORDER MANAGEMENT IN THE RS. 2 nd Project result: Capacity building of the IT Sector and preparation of the necessary conditions for the Implementation of AIS(ICS) and AES(ECS) 23

24 3. TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD : CAS IT Strategy & Tactical Plan should be reviewed and updated Update will be done through IPA 2013 Project New IT Strategy & Tactical Plan should define a clear path for CAS IT gradual renewal and introduction of EU IT systems CAS should use international cooperation and assistance in the process of introduction of EU IT systems 24

25 11. CHALLENGES THE MAIN RISKS IN THE WAY FORWARD THE MAIN CHALLENGES HOW TO MINIMIZE LACK OF SUFFICIENT FINANCIAL RESOURCES LACK OF ADEQUATE IT STAFF LACK OF A MECHANISM FOR PREVENTING THE OUTFLOW OF TRAINED IT STAFF PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF SEVERAL PROJECTS MOVING TARGET UNSUCCESSFULLY CARRIED OUT PROCUREMENT PROCEDURES INEXPERIENCED CONTRACTORS GENERAL LEVEL PROBLEM; SUFFICIENT CAS IT BUDGET IT STAFF CONTINUOUSLY TRAINED GENERAL LEVEL PROBLEM; MOTIVATION of IT STAFF by PROJECT COMMITMENT, HIGHER SALLARIES, etc. EFFECTIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION AND COORDINATION WITH DG TAXUD EFFECTIVE PROCUREMENT PLANNING AND PROCEDURES IN PLACE EFFECTIVE PROCUREMENT 25

26 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!!! 26