The following is excerpted from a January 2013 media release by the World Customs Organization.
At the invitation of the Irish Presidency of the European Union (EU), the Secretary General of the WCO, Kunio Mikuriya, addressed the EU Customs Union Group (CUG) in Brussels on Thursday, 10 January 2013.
Ireland which has responsibility for guiding the EU for a six month period from 1 January to 30 June 2013 continued the practice of inviting the WCO Secretary General and the Director General of the European Commission's Taxation and Customs Union Directorate (DG TAXUD) to outline their principal objectives for the coming year at the first meeting of the CUG under Ireland's term at the helm of the EU.
This release is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wcoomd.org/en/media/newsroom/2013/january/sg-mission-union-group.aspx