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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 ZAGREB 001361 
 
SIPDIS 
 
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DEPT FOR NP/ECC PVANSON, ACHURCH AND JMCCLELLAN; DEPT FOR EUR/ACE 
DMARTIN; CBP/INA FOR PWARKER; USDOE/NNSA FOR TPERRY; DOC FOR 
PETERSEN-BEARD 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
SUBJECT: EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING 
CABLE - OCTOBER 2006 
 
 
¶1.  SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS 
 
Croatia 
 
----05 October, Met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Head of 
Department for International Cooperation and staff, at their 
request, to provide advice over a range of export control topics to 
include procedures for conducting licensing end user verifications 
in foreign countries and applying practical approaches for 
verification of information provided in export license 
applications. 
 
----06 October, Met with Ministry of Interior (MoI) General Police 
Directorate, Deputy Head (DH) of Border Police (BP) Directorate and 
Head of Maritime and Airport Border Police Department to update 
status of the mustang suit and tough book donation acquisition and 
to schedule a Border Assessment of the Danube River Border in the 
Slavonija Region of Croatia. 
 
----12 - 13 October, conducted a Threat Assessment of the Eastern 
Danube River border of Croatia accompanied by the BP DH.  The 
assessment findings and recommendations are currently in draft to be 
completed and disseminated under separate cover circa mid Nov. 
Essentially, the assessment revealed the BP currently has 
insufficient resources and equipment to patrol the border with 
measurable effectiveness. 
 
----18 October, met with the Ministry of Finance (MOF), Customs 
Directorate, Assistant Director Generals (ADGs) for International 
Cooperation and European Integration, Anti-Smuggling, Finance, 
Staffing and Legal Affairs, and Department Heads of the training 
academy and International Cooperation.  The agenda included 
authorizing recent grant donations and scheduling and setting agenda 
topics for a working meeting in November.  The agreed agenda 
included legislative revisions authorizing Customs Criminal 
Investigative authority to include Export Controls Enforcement and 
formulating design of the Customs Academy academic and curricula 
structure. 
 
----20 October, met with Ministry of Economy (MOE), Head of Trade 
Policies (Licensing) and Senior Counselor to discuss status of 
Export Control legislation revisions and agenda for the upcoming 
Industry - Government Forum.  MoE reaffirmed their request for EXBS 
assistance in the revision process to ensure it could be complete as 
soon as possible. 
 
Slovenia 
 
----09 October, met with Ministry of Economy (MOE), Undersecretary 
for Foreign Economic Relations (Licensing) who advised the Tracker 
Site Survey and Questionnaire is nearing completion, currently 
awaiting a response from one Ministry.  It was anticipated the 
process would be complete by November. 
 
Slovakia 
 
----30 October, conducted an introductory courtesy call meeting with 
the new Ministry of Economy (MOE), Head of the Department of 
Sensitive Goods (Licensing) and provided a briefing on EXBS past and 
current program assistance, including the recent Tracker upgrade. 
The Department Head reaffirmed a commitment to adhere to all legal 
licensing protocol with no change in the effectiveness or efficiency 
of that office. The Tracker Network upgrade should be connected and 
security certified by mid Jan. 
 
 
¶2.  TRAINING CONDUCTED DURING REPORTING PERIOD 
 
Croatia 
 
----02 - 05 October, the Commodity Identification Training scheduled 
for this time period had to be postponed until 2007 due to problems 
coordinating the receipt of prospective attendees against the time 
constraints imposed to satisfy the Leahy Vetting procedural 
requirements. 
 
----27 October, The Rapiscan Company and its Croatian subsidiaries 
conducted a products promotion presentation at Embassy Zagreb hosted 
by the U.S. Commercial Service. Attendance was diversified including 
representation from GOC Ministries and the private security and 
 
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industry sector. 
 
Slovenia 
 
----02 - 05 October, the third deployment of the U.S. Commerce 
sponsored Internal Control Program (ICP) was conducted with the 
excellent assistance of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce.  The 
event was well attended and the Slovenian Ministries responsible for 
presenting segments of the program demonstrated significant 
improvement toward generating interest in their scheduled 
presentations. 
 
BRADTKE