Kick-off Meeting dated 10 June 2019

Kick-off Meeting of the Technical Assistance for Improving the Detection Capacity of Turkish Customs Enforcement was held on 10 June 2019 in Ankara.

Senior officials and experts of the beneficiary institution General Directorate of Customs Enforcement, representative of the European Union Delegation to Turkey, contract manager of Contracting Authority Central Finance and Contracts Unit, representatives of consortium partners TÜBİTAK BİLGEM, Hava Elektronik San. ve Tic. A.Ş. (HAVELSAN) and BYS GRUP Bilişim Sistemleri Danışmanlık Ticaret ve Sanayi Ltd Sti, stakeholders and Technical Support Team participated attended the Kick-off Meeting.

The kick-off meeting started with the opening speech by Mr. Can YILDIZ, Head of the Project and Technical Systems Department of the General Directorate of Customs Enforcement, and continued with the speeches of the representatives of the European Union Delegation to Turkey and the Central Finance and Contracts Unit, in which they conveyed their expectations during the project implementation process.

Taking the floor later, Project Manager Mehmet Zahid Berktaş stated in his speech that the two most important partners of the technical support team will be the Beneficiary Institution and the Contracting Authority during the project and these two institutions will play a major role in these issues, and Mr. Bektaş gave information to the participants about the project activities. The meeting ended after the participants wished for the successful implementation of the project.