A new staff member to the ROCB Europe has been assigned by the Ministry of Customs and Trade of the Republic of Turkey. Mr. Eser Çengel, a senior external relations expert on customs and trade joined the Office on 6 September 2017.

World Customs Organization Advance Passenger Information/Passenger Name Record (API/PNR) Programme Workshop for the representatives of the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan started in the premises of the Regional Office for capacity building for the WCO Europe region (ROCB Europe) in Baku on 5 June 2017.

A delegation of UNODC led by Mr. Tofik-Murshudlu, Chief, Implementation Support Section of the United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime, pay a visit on 29 May 2017 to the Regional Office for Capacity Building for the WCO Europe Region in Baku while their official attendance to the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The delegation was accompanied during the visit by Mister Norber

The Journal “Customs Scientific Journal CUSTOMS” has been indexed in the international database INDEX COPERNICUS!

The World Customs Organization with the support of the Azerbaijan State Customs Committee, Korean Customs Cooperation Fund and Regional Office for Capacity Building for WCO Europe region organized a Regional Workshop on E-Commerce and Digital Customs for the Europe Region from 28 November to 1 December 2016 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

On 22 November 2016 WCO Secretary General Mr. Kunio Mikuriya spoke at the ceremony to rename the WCO Regional Training Centre (RTC) after the late Lieutenant General Arnold Mihály (1945-2013) who, in 2001 in his then capacity as Commissioner of the Hungarian Customs and Financial Guard, conceived and set up the Hungarian Customs Training Centre as the first WCO RTC. Attendees at the ceremony inclu

World Customs Organization Mercator Programme Advisors Refresher Workshop for the representatives of the Customs administrations of Azerbaijan, Netherlands, Norway and Russian Federation was held in the premises of ROCB Europe in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 22-25 November 2016.

On 18 October 2016 5th Anniversary of ROCB Europe was celebrated and the Container and Cargo Training Center was inaugurated.

Regional Intellectual Property Rights Seminar for Central Asia and Azerbaijan under the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime-World Customs Organization Global Container Control Programme was held in the premises of ROCB Europe in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 3-7 October 2016.

The World Customs Organization, in cooperation with HMRC and UNCTAD, organized the Working Meeting to Support Afghanistan's implementation of World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) in the premises of ROCB Europe in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 19-30 September 2016.

Regional Intelligence Liaison Office for Western Europe (RILO WE), in cooperation with the Swedish Customs Service, organized the 19th National Contact Points Meeting in Visby, Sweden, on 13-14 September 2016.

On 15-18 August 2016 Customs Procedures and Customs Warehousing Workshop was organised in Tbilisi/Georgia by the Regional Office for Capacity Building for WCO Europe Region in cooperation with the Georgia Revenue Service.