Number 2, Monday, April 10, 2006
- The topic
- Safe Port Act
under Congress
- Representative Lungren of California introduced a bill, the Security and Accountability for Every Port (SAFE Port) Act (H.R. 4954). Our Journal was reported that Bill provides:
a requirement for a seal verification rulemaking;
the absence of the term “GreenLane,” instead, the concept is referred to as simply C-Tpat “tier three” for importers;
a provision for a third party validator pilot project.
The pilot project would run for a year to test the feasibility, costs and benefits of using third party entities to conduct C-Tpat validations. An amendment clarified that third party validators could not be used until the pilot project has been concluded and results analyzed. A provision requiring Dhs to proceed with a proposed
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- Num 2, Monday, April 10, 2006
- Interview
- Marco Sironi talks
about the Ipsc projects
- Marco Sironi, with an engineering degree from the University of Genoa, is the director of the Ipsc (Institute for the Protection and the Security of the Citizen), a research institute headquartered in Milan, set up and financed by the European Commission within the Jrc (Joint Research Centre). We asked him a few questions about projects that he and his team are developing and about possible future scenarios in the security market, and for containers in particular.
First, a quick general question. In your opinion, in your position as a privileged observer, is the sector fully aware of the security problem?
«I have been working in the security field for three years now and I feel quite confident in saying that the sector is i
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- Num 2, Monday, April 10, 2006
