Tbilisi - Green Customs Initiative

11.00-11.30 TEA/COFFEE BREAK11.30 – 12.30 BASEL CONVENTION AND CUSTOMS OFFICERS Presentation and Facilitated Discussion (by Ms. Irina Hakobyan,Department of Hazardous Substances and Wastes Management,Armenia)12.30 – 13.00 COMBATING ILLEGAL TRADE IN PRACTICE:IDENTIFICATION OF SEIZED CYLINDERS OF OZONE-DEPLETING SUBSTANCES13.00-14.30 LUNCH BREAKDemonstration by NOU of Georgia (Mr. Mikheil Tushishvili) andMr. Sulkhan Suladze, Georgian Refrigeration Association14.30-16.00 THE ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY FACED TO ILLEGALTRADE16.00-16.30 TEA/COFFEE BREAKCase studies presented by Mr. Ezra Clark, the EnvironmentalInvestigation Agency16.30- 17.30 STOCKHOLM CONVENTION AND CUSTOMS OFFICERSPresentation and Facilitated Discussion by Mr. Marin Kocov, Vice-President of the COP of the Stockholm Convention.THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER 20059.00 – 10.30 WORKING GROUP DISCUSSIONS (PROPOSED) Development of Implementing Legislation, Regulations, andStandards, and Enforcement, facilitated by Charlotte Salpin Issues of transit, transshipment, Free Trade Zones. A link between environmental crime and organized crime?15