The information that will be listed on the aircraft, together with the needs of a range of enforcement agencies, has been identified by a Steering Committee comprising the WCO Secretariat project team, national experts from Customs and other partner administrations (civil aviation, criminal inves...
At the start of 2019, in partnership with the European Union, the WCO Secretariat launched the COLIBRI Project to help administrations responsible for enforcement in Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa to implement effective controls in general aviation. General aviation covers all civil...
An international database dedicated to general aviation
The objective of the COLIBRI Geoportal is to bring together in one place data relevant to the effective surveillance of movements by general aviation. It therefore includes a databas...
As regards the Geoportal, users will be able to choose between several base maps:
Operation COLIBRI Paramuno highlights the use by criminals of general aviation to move illicit goods as well as the need to strengthen risk analysis capabilities and conduct regular control operations for this mode of transport.
In 2019, with funding ...
The Geoportal consists of a mobile application supporting data collection, a geospatial map and a database that holds information on observations made by field officers and on controls carried out on aircraft. The objective is to obtain a comprehensive database on all GA aircraft operating within...
The WCO and the European Union (EU) are partners in a new project called “COLIBRI,” which aims to build the capacity of Customs administrations to control general aviation on routes between Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa, as well as between the EU and these regions.
Control procedures
Responses to the risks associated with this mode of transport vary. Some countries have military surveillance capabilities and have accordingly established proper airspace control, employing radar cover...
The COLIBRI Project, which is aimed at monitoring and controlling general aviation (GA) and combating illicit trafficking perpetrated through GA in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) as well as in West and Central Africa (WCA), has been implemented since 2019 by the WCO Secretariat, with the f...
This means that GA represents a genuine opportunity for organized crime, offering a number of advantages to traffickers. This is a discreet, fast mode of transport that can use smaller aerodromes, where law enforcement agencies are often absent.
In order to build surveillance and control c...
The recent seizure of 551 kilograms (kg) of cocaine in an aircraft which had landed on a makeshift airstrip underscores the critical role of Belize Customs in the national architecture established to monitor the movements of general aviation (GA). It also highlight...
The aircraft used belong to a category called “general aviation” (GA), which encompasses all civil aviation activities except scheduled commercial airline services and military aviation. In Belize, GA activities include private aircraft operations, charter flights, agricultural aviation, tour...
With organized crime activities shifting to the smaller airfields used for general aviation, Belgium’s General Customs and Excise Administration (Belgium Customs) has committed itself to information sharing, risk analysis and collaboration with Belgian Defence under the National Airspac...
Information sharing lies at the core of the NASC project. The NASC’s role is to supply to Customs and the Federal Police operational information on flights deemed to be high risk so that they can respond with targeted and efficient action. The project focuses fully on maximizing resources, havi...