“Single Window is defined as a facility that allows parties involved in trade and transport to lodge standardized information and documents with a single entry point to fulfil all import, export, and transit-related regulatory requirements”
UN/CEFACT RECOMMENDATION No. 33
Public Private Partnership (PPP) is a new model by which governments and the private sector work together in a long term relationship to deliver important public services. PPPs today are widely used through the world in transports energy, telecommunications and in health and education. The challenge for governments in implementing PPPs was identified by UNECE several years ago and a framework of support was elaborated in its seven principles of good governance in PPP (ECE, 2008).
The following paper elaborates on how this seven principles contained in the UNECE Guidebook on Good Governance in Public Private Partnerships can be used on the next steps in building Single Window in Ukraine: a maritime/transport sector Single Window or, at a certain point in the future, a national Customs-based Single Window (SW) facility.
