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In Brussles, on July 12 and 13, the 67th session of the Subcommittee for Information Technologies of the World Customs Organisation (WCO) was held. The session was presided over by the representative of the Serbian Customs Authorities, Gordana Vidanović, the counsellor for customs affairs in the Mission of Republic of Serbia in Brussels. Subcommittee for Information Technologies is responsible for initiation of activities and studies in the sphere of informatics in customs business. The goal of these activities is improvement of the efficiency of customs controls, more efficient realisation of trade benefits and identification of ways for improvement of the existing information systems as well as cost reducing. The session was especially important as questions regarding the achieved agreement about trade benefits of the WTO were discussed. Namely, the WCO Secretariat provided the analysis of the effects of the achieved agreement on customs IT systems and need for changes in the customs’ IT systems. There was some word about the product identification codes, about updating the Manual for single window and about data model for WCO. At the end of the meeting, the elections for the President over Subcommittee for Information Technologies of the WCO were held. Gordana Vidanović, representative of Serbian Customs Authorities, was re-elected for another term