• Extending Trade Control and Expert System at the international level: addition of an export / import module, to allow introduction of import and export certificates directly into the EU system. This aims to expedit the work of inspectors together with increasing security within the international trade.
• Updating the user manual and the computerised self training tool for the integration of the new functionalities and modules.
• Introducing two or potentially three new languages, in the light of the future new EU official languages with the enlargement process to Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia.

Technical Functionalities & Approach

• Development of a central database, a workflow and a web interface to consult, update and manage the central database
• Notifications by email
• Development of system-to-system connections between the Trade Control & Expert System and the Member States applications
• Application of TEMPO, EC/Directorate General for Health & Consumer Protection (SANCO) standard development tools and architecture guidelines

Potential Beneficiaries

• Benefits for the sector:
  • Improvement of the traceability of animals’ movements for a better management of the outbreaks
  • Improvement of information for more targeted controls related to animal health and welfare within Member States
  • Centralised risk assessments with analysis of importation trends
  • Deletion of language discrepancies
  • Interoperability between different Directorates General (for Health & Consumer Protection, for Taxation & Customs Union, European Anti-Fraud Office, etc)
  • Traceability of the movements of goods from the exporting countries until the final destination
• Benefits for national Member States administrations :
  • Access to all the information (certificates, rejected consignments, legislation, etc)
  • Assistance during the decision making process
  • More statistics
  • Money saving through centralised updating of all legal information and dispatch of the certificate in all EU official languages
  • Interoperability between different Services (animal health, public health, custom, etc)
  • Improvement of security within the transmission of data
• Benefits for citizens / enterprises:
  • Acceleration and cost efficiency of the administrative operations
  • Possibility for economic operators to introduce the certificate application directly into the system, with feedback on the outcome 
  • Participation of third countries (next phase of the project) will further expedite the data acquisition process and will reduce transcription error

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The role of IDABC

Key Data

Documentation 

• Council Directive 90/425/EEC of June 1990
• Council Directive 92/438/EEC of 13 July 1992
• Council Decision 95/1/EC of 1 January 1995
• Directive 92/118/EEC of 17 December 1992
• Directive 90/675/EEC of 10 December 1990
• Directive 91/496/EEC of 15 July 1991
• Directive 88/192/EEC of 28 March 1988

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