INTRODUCTION

Within the context of modernization of customs administration among ASEAN member countries, the General Department of Customs and Excise of Cambodia (GDCE) needs to establish a clear sense of its strategic direction and its priorities for fulfiling its tasks in the future. In light of this, it needs a feasible road map to ensure its efforts are contributing to the achievement in line with the government’s policies and to meet expectation of its many stakeholders.

The document of the Strategic, reform and modernization worm program for customs administration 2009-2013 is the third publication issued by the GDCE. It provides a clear picture of the organization’s objectives, priorities, and action plans to continue and to deepen its ongoing reform and modernization program. In general, the strategic objective reflects the GDCE’s commitment towards its ambition to modernize itself to reach the standard of international best practice and to become an effective service provider as part of the RGC’s reform program and to meet the needs of private sector.

This document covers 8 strategic objectives which provide detailed targets and action plan in order to achieve the goals of each of those objectives namely: 1- Collection of duty and taxes, 2- Legal Framework, 3- Customs Technique and procedures, 4- Trade Facilitation, 5- Human Resource Development and Infrastructure, 6- Cooperation and Partnership, 7- Organizational Structure and Management, and 8- Management of the GDCE’s Reform Program. These 8 Strategice Objectives are broken down, with precise timeframe, into 12 working targets, 44 action plans, and 107 activity indicators. Among all the action plans, some of them are the remaining tasks which have not yet been completed over the previous Strategy and Reform and Modernization Program of Customs Administration 2003-2008. The document also includes some annexes which will help provide an overview of the overall picture of the Strategy and Modernization and Reform Program at the GDCE.

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