Project Steering Committee Meeting No. 5 18 th September 2013

1. Support to the Establishment of Single Window for Export, Import and Transit Procedures in the Republic of Tajikistan Project Steering CommitteeMeeting No. 518th September 2013 Intrasoft International Presentation Project Steering Committee Meeting No. 5 (18 September 2013)

2. Activities since Meeting #4 • Six month “Interim Report No. 2” submitted to EU • Interim Report No. 1 + Annexes circulated to SC • SLA Resolution completed (English, Russian + Tajik) and submitted to MEDT (Russian + Tajik versions) • ICT equipment contract signed and equipment en route • Athens mission for Mr. Roziev and 2 SUE SW staff members (July) • Development for Pilot Release completed • Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) completed • Pilot training completed in Dushanbe Project Steering Committee Meeting No. 5 (18 September 2013)

3. Activities since Meeting #4 (cont.) • Pilot Tests (UAT) commenced on 16th September • Advanced discussions in formalizing interfaces with the Treasury and Commercial bank • Further refinement of the SW-Treasury Memorandum • Press release ready for after this meeting • Training Material delivered • User Manual delivered Project Steering Committee Meeting No. 5 (18 September 2013)

4. Pilot Training • Detailed preparation and testing for Pilot Training environment in the Customs Service Training Centre. • Pilot agencies training in Dushanbe completed (Russian speaking trainers from Athens) • SUE SW staff trained and operated as “Trainers” • Excellent evaluations for the training were achieved • The helpful feedback from trainees and training activities has identified software improvements • Khujand and Kurgan Tube starts 23rd September Project Steering Committee Meeting No. 5 (18 September 2013)

5. The Pilot Activities • Internet Communications arrangements in place • Installation and maintenance of Pilot Environment Infrastructure • UAT Commenced 16th September 2013 • Testing at Pilot sites • SLA with Pilot agencies will be finalized • SWIS will run in parallel with existing manual procedures Project Steering Committee Meeting No. 5 (18 September 2013)

6. Development Update • Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) completed • Release focus is on Pilot • Full integration is not included: • Payment integration functionality is ready from the SWIS perspective • No working interfaces (BRIS, UAIS, Treasury, Bank) included in the Pilot software version • Digital signature is not included Project Steering Committee Meeting No. 5 (18 September 2013)

7. Interfaces Update • Integration with Bank/Treasury • Some minor details still under discussion • Formalisation of agreement in progress (memo, contract) • Integration with SimBASE system • Awaiting Extensions Proposal approval before proceeding • BRIS interface • No technical issue • Awaiting meeting to resolve political deadlock • UAIS interface • No progress. • Considered as almost not possible in current project state. Project Steering Committee Meeting No. 5 (18 September 2013)

8. Problems Regarding Definition of Agency’s TNVED Codes • No Definition yet of TNVED subset for each Agency based on existing regulation R-310; • Each Agency has to validate this set and prepare when required their own TNVED based lists of goods not covered by R-310 for future discussion; • System – even pilot cannot operate properly without these subset definitions • The issue is pending for some time now. Assistance is needed here Project Steering Committee Meeting No. 5 (18 September 2013)

9. Supervision of ICT Equipment Supervision activities will commence once the ICT equipment has been delivered and made available in Dushanbe • Supervised supply and installation of Central Servers • Supervised supply and installation of workstations and network equipment • Acceptance and commissioning • Infrastructure Installation Report Project Steering Committee Meeting No. 5 (18 September 2013)

10. Extensions Proposal • Integration with SimBASE software • Additional SW certification member (Cotton) • Potentially, some new requirements for the SWIS identified during Pilot training and feedback from SUE SW, agencies and Customs Brokers • In addition: Extension of warranty period (to one year) Project Steering Committee Meeting No. 5 (18 September 2013)

11. Remaining Open Issues • BRIS Integration • Bank/Treasury integration • TNVED Subsets definition • Single/multiple payment(s) • Integration with SimBASE software • UAIS Integration Project Steering Committee Meeting No. 5( (18 September 2013)

12. Upcoming Deliverables • Administration Manual will be delivered end of September • I.P.R will be delivered early October. • New release resolving most of the SUE SW and training findings was deployed on 17 September • Further software release is planned for early October to solve the remaining issues Project Steering Committee Meeting No. 5( (18 September 2013)

13. Project Phases • Inception 12 Jun 12 11 July 12 • Elaboration 16 July 12 9 Jan 13 • Construction 2 Jan 13 1 Aug 13 • Transition 15Aug 13 11 Apr 14 • Pilot 15 Aug 13 15 Oct 13 • Installation 10 Sep 13 15 Oct 13 • Replication 16 Oct 13 20 Dec 13 • Warranty 23 Dec 13 11 Apr 14 Project Steering Committee Meeting No. 4 (11 June 2013)

14. Summary • ICT equipment en route (end September) • Service Level Agreement Resolution submitted to MEDT • Factory Acceptance Tests completed and Pilot Implementation underway • Pilot training on SWIS underway • Extensions proposal being updated Project Steering Committee Meeting No. 5 (18 September 2013)

15. Thank you for you attention Project Steering Committee Meeting No. 5 (15 September 2013)