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SESAD: Secure Exchange And Storage Of Agricultural Data
AGRICULTURE - SECURE EXCHANGE AND STORAGE OF AGRICULTURAL DATA - SESAD
    
Secure Exchange & Storage of Agricultural Data (SESAD) is a project covering electronic data communication on a daily basis between the Directorate General Agriculture & Rural Development and Member States ministries or paying agencies, especially related to financial data.
Data is sent either through Web forms, or HTTP file upload, by Member States via the AWAI portal. Even though this data itself is not highly confidential, there is a growing need to ascertain that the data being sent is not tampered with and that the sending users are really who they pretend to be.
 
Last update: September 2007

Objectives

The purpose of this project is:
  • To enhance security in terms of information exchange among Member States
  • As a result, to reduce the paper exchange in Member States
 

Technical Functionalities & Approach

All HTTP data is sent by Member States administrations via SSL, using server-side certification, which guarantees to the user that the server is who it pretends to be. Nevertheless, it is not possible to ensure that data is not being intercepted and tampered with, which could create a data integrity hazard that should be leveraged, and that the external user on the client machine is really who he announces himself to be.
  
The technical solution based on the feasibility study's results and on the standard EC security infrastructure and tools will consist of strong authentication, digital signature of the information sent to DG AGRI, secured data storage with ex-post certificate-based validation controls and securisation of the communication from DG AGRI to Member States.
 
 

Potential Beneficiaries

  • Benefits for the sector
    • Directorate-General Agriculture & Rural Development will make sure that incoming data is sent by the expected correspondents and that it arrives without been viewed / tampered with during transmission
    • It will be possible to eliminate a number of paper reports, since the electronic version will be considered as safe and secure as the paper version
  • Benefits for national Member States administrations
    • Member States administrations will benefit from secure data travel over the network
 

The role of IDABC

The following services (Horizontal & Action Measures) will be considered:

  • IDA-PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
  • TESTA (Trans European Services for Telematics between Administrations) secure network
 

Key Data

Project start date
2004
Project completion date
2009
Project status
ongoing
IDABC budget
€ 255,000
Service in charge
Directorate-General for Agriculture & Rural Development -
Unit I.3. (Information technology) , I.4
(Financial Management of EAGGF Guarantee Section) and D.2
(Implementation of market measures)
Responsible action manager
KOORNSTRA Timotheus
Contact
Countries involved
All EU member states
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Documentation:

  • Official Journal of the European Union - L 100/11 - 605/2005
  • Official Journal of the European Communities - L 181/25 - 2004/387/EC
  • Commission Regulation (EC) No 296/96 of 16 February 1996, amended by No 2785/2000 of 19 December 2000
  • Commission Regulation (EC) No 1391/97 of 18 July 1997
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