5th Technical Working Group Meeting on CAREC Advanced Transit System and Information Common Exchange (CATS/ICE) Pilot Phase Implementation

The 5th Technical Working Group Meeting on the CAREC Advanced Transit System and Information Common Exchange (CATS/ICE) Pilot Phase Implementation was held on 12-13 March 2025 at the WCO Regional Office for Capacity Building in Baku, Azerbaijan. Officials from Customs authorities, ministry of Economy, and representatives from the freight forwarding and insurance companies actively participated in the meeting and the working groups on customs control facilitation, and information and communications technology.

The meeting discussed the outcomes of the CATS/ICE prototype system testing undertaken in September 2024 and the testing of the version 2 in February 2025, and further reviewed the proposed changes on the information and other fields in the system to be implemented by the developers. The meetings had productive discussions on the CATS/ICE Activity Plan for 2025 and the way forward of the initiative.

Event Documents

Agenda | RU

Session 01 – Agenda and Status of CATS and ICE Implementation | RUS

Session 02 – CATS ICE Phase 1 Progress Report 2024 | RUS

Session 03 – Parallel Test and Key System ChangesRUS

Session 04 – Conformity Test and Result | RUS

Session 05 – CATS ICE v2 Amendable Fields | RUS

Session 05 – Customs Control Facilitation Working Group AgendaRUS

Session 06 – Proposed CATS-ICE Activity Plan – January 2025 to December 2025 | RUS

Session 06 – Proposed CATS-ICE Activity Plan – January 2025 to December 2025 V2 | RUS

Session 08 – MOU on CATS ICE | RUS

This event is supported under KSTA 9824: Better Customs for Better Client Services in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Countries, funded by the Republic of Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund.