The EU Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM) contributes to the delivery of good quality border and customs services to the citizens and companies of Moldova, Ukraine and the European Union. Together with border guard and customs services of Moldova and Ukraine the Mission facilitates people-to-people contacts, legitimate trade and security. Mission’s funding comes from the European Commission. Administrative and logistical support is provided by the United Nations Development Programme. >>>

Over 200 staff members of the Mission work along 1222 km of the Moldovan-Ukrainian border. This includes more than one hundred customs and border guard experts from 22 EU Member States; representatives of several CIS countries in the UNDP contingent, and staff from Moldova and Ukraine. The Mission’s experts are located in six field offices: Basarabeasca, Chisinau, and Otaci in Moldova and Kotovsk, Kuchurhan, and Odesa Port in Ukraine. The Mission has its headquarters in Odesa, southern Ukraine. >>>

Moldovan and Ukrainian youth stand against corruption 19.08.

‘Zero-tolerance’ on corruption and an active, public stand against it, these were the messages of the Summer School “Youth against the corruption” held in Vadul lui Voda, Moldova on 25 July – 1 August. Twenty five students of law, economics, linguistics, criminal justice and European Studies spent 7 days learning the theory and practice of anti-corruption from leading experts from the Centre for Combating Economic Crime and Corruption of Moldova (CCECC), the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine and the EU Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM). >>>

Delegation of Polish Customs Service visited EUBAM 13.08.

11-15 August, Odessa – A delegation of senior management of the Polish Customs, led by Undersecretary of State, the Director General of Polish Customs Service Mr Jacek Kapica visited EUBAM. >>>

180 million dollar cocaine seizure at Odessa seaport 30.07.

Odessa, 30th July 2010 - The Ukrainian border services have seized nearly 1200 kg of cocaine at Odessa Seaport. 1200 bricks, worth around 180 million US dollars, were stashed in furnaces on a ship from Venezuela. >>>