BUREAUCRAT OF THE YEAR AWARD

Director General of Customs Enforcement, Neşet AKKOÇ has been selected as bureaucrat of the year for his successful contribution to good public services by Meclis Haber Dergisi and ''mebushaber.com''

eTR AWARD “ESTEEMED AS ACADEMY AWARD OF IT WORLD” TO GÜMKART PROJECT

	GÜMKART Project developed jointly by Undersecretariat of Customs and Ministry of Finance-General Directorate of Public Accounts and Vakıfbank DG has won eTR award in the category of Public to Business. eTR awards are esteemed as Academy Award of IT world.

TURKISH CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION REWARDED BY WORLD CUSTOMS ORGANIZATION (WCO)

Considering high amount of seizures under activities for anti-smuggling in 2007, the following customs offices were awarded prize by World Customs Organization (WCO):

·         Kapıkule Customs Enforcement Directorate for Intelligence of Smuggling and Narcotics

·         İpsala Customs Enforcement Directorate

·         Kapıkule Customs Enforcement Directorate

·         Uzunköprü Customs Enforcement Section

·         Gürbulak Customs Enforcement Directorate for Intelligence of Smuggling and Narcotics

·         Gürbulak Customs Enforcement Directorate

·         İstanbul Customs Enforcement Directorate for Intelligence of Smuggling and Narcotics

·         Haydarpaşa Customs Enforcement Directorate

·         Esenboğa Customs Enforcement Directorate

·         AHL (Atatürk Airport) Customs Enforcement Directorate

·        Çeşme Customs Enforcement Directorate

•  Cilvegözü Customs Enforcement Directorate

ANOTHER ACHIEVEMENT IN EUROPE

Customs Modernization Project has become finalist among 357 projects applied for eEurope awards for eGovernment 2003 organized by the European Commission.

The eGovernment Awards for the solutions regarding "Good Practices in Improving Public eServices and Transforming Government" were presented at the High-Level European eGovernment Conference jointly organized by Italian Presidency and the European Commission at the Villa Erba, Como (I) on 7-8 July 2003. eCustoms Project was selected as one of 65 "best practices of public administrations in Europe" exhibited at stands at this event .

The Conference at which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi made an inauguration speech was attended by a Turkish Delegation headed by State Minister Abdüllatif Şener, comprised of representatives of public administrations and NGOs and professionals from private sector.

Customs Modernization Project was among totally 22 projects for eGovernment model pre-selected to hold demonstration at the eGovernment Exhibition. Germany, with Bremen On-line Services was announced as award winner of Theme 1 ("the role of eGovernment in European competitiveness") at which Customs Modernization Project also competed for the award. Germany was selected as the best of the e-Government models with Bremen Municipality Portal.