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BOMMOLUK
01.11.2007
At its third meeting in September, the EUBAM Advisory Board endorsed the first part of the EC-financed project called BOMMOLUK (Improving Management on the Moldovan-Ukrainian State Border). The overall BOMMOLUK budget is worth 9m EUR. The funding for the first phase was 3.3m EUR.
BOMMOLUK 1 run until the end of December 2007 and consisted of three components e:
- Development of risk analysis capacity in the Border Guard and Customs Services of Moldova and Ukraine;
- Development of a joint training course for staff from the four counterpart agencies deployed at the jointly operated border crossing points of Moldova & Ukraine;
- Procurement of equipment and communications network for the Border Guards and Customs of Moldova and Ukraine.
BOMMOLUK 2 will run until 2009 and will have a budget of 6.6m EUR, which will be spent for equipment procurement to the partner services.
Achieved results:
- Study Tours
In total fourteen study tours were organized for representatives of Moldovan and Ukrainian officials in 2006-2007 in the framework of the BOMMOLUK project. There were visits to Belgium, Greece, Austria, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Turkey, Finland and the United Kingdom.
- Short term experts
The project contracted short term experts in the following areas: Human Resources and Legal Questions concerning Risk Analysis, Border Management, Anti-corruption, IT in Customs Information Exchanges. They have worked within the Mission providing assistance in relevant areas to the counterparts.
- Equipment
2,2m EUR of the BOMMOLUK 1 budget have been spent for procurement on equipment for the border guard and customs services of Moldova and Ukraine. The needs for equipment were identified together with the partner services.
This project is funded by the European Union
This project is implemented by the United Nations Development Programme
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