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in the European Union: the competent services of the European Commission and the customs authorities of the Member States of the European Union;

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in Canada: the governmental administration designated by Canada as responsible for administering its customs laws.

(a)

reinforcing the customs-related aspects of securing the logistics chain of international trade while at the same time facilitating legitimate trade;

(b)

establishing minimum standards, to the extent practicable, for risk management techniques and related requirements and programmes;

(c)

working towards and, where appropriate, establishing mutual recognition of risk management techniques, risk standards, security controls, supply-chain security and trade partnership programmes including equivalent trade facilitation measures;

(d)

exchanging information for supply-chain security and risk management; any exchange of information under this Agreement shall be subject to the confidentiality of information and personal data protection requirements set out in Article 16 of the CMAA as well as any confidentiality and privacy requirements set out in the legislation of the Contracting Parties;

(e)

establishing contact points for exchanging information for supply-chain security;

(f)

introducing, where appropriate, an interface for data exchange, including for pre-arrival or pre-departure data;

(g)

developing a strategy that allows the customs authorities to cooperate in the area of cargo inspection;

(h)

collaborating, to the extent practicable, in any multilateral fora where issues related to supply-chain security may be appropriately raised and discussed.

(a)

identifying any regulatory or legislative changes required to implement this Agreement;

(b)

identifying and establishing measures to enhance information exchange mechanisms;

(c)

identifying and establishing best practices, including best practices for the harmonization of advance electronic cargo information requirements with international standards on inbound, outbound and transit shipments;

(d)

defining and establishing risk analysis standards for the information required to identify high-risk shipments imported into, transhipped through, or transiting Canada and the European Union;

(e)

defining and establishing measures to harmonize risk assessment standards;

(f)

defining minimum control standards and methods by which those standards may be met;

(g)

improving and establishing standards for trade partnership programmes designed to improve supply-chain security and facilitate the movement of legitimate trade;

(h)

defining and carrying out concrete steps to establish mutual recognition of risk management techniques, risk standards, security controls and trade partnership programmes including equivalent trade facilitation measures.