The Fiji Islands Revenue and Customs Authority (FIRCA) hosted the 8th Annual Conference of Customs Heads of the Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO) from the 13th to the 17th of March 2006. Mr Tevita Banuve, the Chief Executive of FIRCA chaired the Conference.
The Conference was attended by eighteen of the twenty-three member administrations. There were thirty-three delegates from Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, the Republic of Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Republic of Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, the Kingdom of Tonga, Vanuatu and Wallis & Futuna.
Three staff from the OCO Secretariat attended the Conference along with representatives of the invited observer organisations including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), the Pacific Immigration Directors Conference (PIDC), the Pacific Plant Protection Organisation (PPPO), the Pacific Trans-national Crime Coordination Centre (PTCCC), the Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police (PICP), the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), the Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Centre (PFTAC), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the World Customs Organisation (WCO), the World Customs Organisation Asia-Pacific Regional Vice-Chair (WCO AP VC) and the WCO Regional Intelligence Office Asia-Pacific (WCO RILO AP).