4.4 Mission to Montenegro
a single window with one government authority designated to
receive passenger data on behalf of all other national agencies,
and another to establish a stakeholder consultation group for
engagement with airlines. The authorities were encouraged
to appoint a national API co-ordinator and establish a
working group. Commercial service providers and experts
from the United States also attended the event and shared
their experience and best practices in working with API
data, presenting specific solutions for Montenegro that are
based on user requirements. This working session updated
the roadmap based on the conclusions of the discussions,
provided a forum for the experts to assess the country’s needs,
and address challenges in the API implementation process.
Participants in the South-Eastern Europe Workshop on
Combating Illicit Cross-border Trafficking in Cultural
Property visit the Doclea archaeological site in Podgorica,
Montenegro, on 4 October 2018. (OSCE/Mission to
Montenegro).
From 27 February to 1 March, building upon an initial event
in Podgorica in December 2017, the Mission supported
TNTD/BSMU in conducting a Threat Assessment Mission to
the international airports at Podgorica and Tivat. As a result
of this assessment, it was agreed that TNTD/BSMU will
draft the National Border Community Security Programme
(BCSP), which will reflect the Schengen Action Plan priorities
and other strategic documents provided by the Montenegrin
Border Police. Agreement was reached for designated points
of contact from the Podgorica and Tivat airports to review in
Vienna the draft BCSP with international experts from Airpol,
the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and other
relevant actors, and develop specific steps and a timeframe
for its implementation. The BCSP was launched in May with
capacity-building training courses held for Podgorica/Tivat
airport law enforcement personnel. The BCSP will be the first
of its kind in the SEE and will serve as a pilot programme for
work by other OSCE field operations in the region.
From 5 to 8 March 2018, the Mission provided support to a
follow-up technical meeting organized by TNTD/BSMU for
some 20 key experts from Montenegrin agencies who had
participated in a similar workshop in 2017 and are tasked
with implementing the API. Assisted by an independent
consultant, participants identified ways to improve the
national legislation to grant law enforcement officials the legal
authority to collect and process passenger data while fully
respecting citizens’ right to privacy. The participants reviewed
the roadmap and discussed the recommendations developed
at the first workshop, in particular one that proposed to create
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On 5 June, the Mission, together with four national points of
contact from the Civil Aviation Agency, Border Police and
Customs Administration, travelled to the OSCE Secretariat
in Vienna to revise the draft BCSP. This programme was
developed as part of the OSCE TNTD pilot project on
airport security for Montenegro, which was designed to
improve information exchange and co-operation between law
enforcement and private sector personnel to reduce criminal
and terrorist threats and to identify FTFs at Montenegro’s
international airports.
From 20 to 22 June, TNTD, together with the Mission,
organized a training course for 15 first and second-line border
and customs officers from the airports at Podgorica and Tivat
on how to detect forged documents and impostors. The
training combined learning theory with practical exercises.
Participants were exposed to available tools and services
to identify FTF, techniques for printing travel documents,
along with scanning devices for official travel documents
and practices for gathering API. The TNTD donated eight
specialized magnifiers to enhance the capacity of authorities
to identify forged documents and impostors at Montenegro’s
international airports.
On 5 October, more than 50 participants from police, border
and customs services, as well as from the Ministries of Justice
and Culture from SEE and South Caucasus, completed a fiveday workshop in Podgorica on combating illicit cross-border
trafficking in cultural property. The workshop was organized
by the Italian OSCE Chairmanship in co-ordination with
TNTD/BSMU, the Mission and the Ministry of Culture of
Montenegro. The event highlighted the international legal
framework and best practices in criminal justice responses
to trafficking in cultural property. Experts presented
available ICT systems and databases to support the fight
against this phenomenon. They emphasized the importance
of international co-operation and information exchange
as efficient counter-measures, equally important to the
monitoring and protection of archaeological sites, as well
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