The following is excerpted from an 11 January 2012 report by the World Customs Organization.
At the invitation of the Danish Presidency of the European Union, the Secretary General of the WCO, Kunio Mikuriya, addressed the EU Customs Union Group (CUG) in Brussels on Wednesday, 11 January 2012.
Denmark which has responsibility for guiding the EU for a six months period from 1 January to 30 June 2012 continued the practice of inviting the WCO Secretary General and the Director General of the European Commission's DG Taxud to outline their principal objectives for the coming year at the first meeting of the CUG during Denmark's term at the helm of the EU.
This report is available on the WCO website at:
http://www.wcoomd.org/reports/default.aspx?lid=1&id=342