TRACES TRAde Control and Expert System HERAKLION 8-10/10/2008 Status and perspectives

TRACES TRACES and DRAFT DECISION Consider timing and inclusion of legal basis for introduction of food products of non-animal origin Exclude reference 882/2004 if not required Art 1: clearly specify differences for intra trade, third country and transit (animals/products)

TRACES TRACES and DRAFT DECISION Contingency plan if down time of TRACES Real time entries but provisions or note for guidance for practical difficulties to be taken into account (big quantities, working time…) Legal basis as references to be checked New decision or amendments of 92/486 to be considered

TRACES Decision on TRACES units Use of ISO Locodes to be confirmed by ISO ISO Locodes restricted to BIP Communication of the ISO contact point for completion of missing data

TRACES Service Level Agreement Approved text with minor modifications (‘created’ instead of ‘validated’ certificate, working days, web services and DWH) Presentation to SCoFCAH

TRACES Communication tool Forum to be implemented for direct communication between MS Translation tool to be delivered beginning of 2009 Designation of the lead translator amongst MS sharing the same language

TRACES IMPORT Module MS general support for this module Need for the MS active participation (cloning mechanism) Difficulties where discrepancies between electronic and paper certificates Communication with customs agents and importers for them to be integrated in the process NZ pilot project to begin soon

TRACES SANREF Organizations and web services Cleaning tool ready but clean-up to be done by MS, considering archiving the original data Procedures to be defined for the creation process Consider rapid creation Introduce the same type of activities as those existing in 853/2004 Improve the search engine

TRACES Bovine ID exchanges Clarify the use of ID (ear tag or passport number) Guidance on assembly centres when animals come from various MS Business rule in certificate for adequacy between number of animals and number of ID

TRACES VERSION 3 Animal welfare GIS to be extended to third country Overwriting of calculated journey time when more than stated Web services and automatic update of transporters and means of transport CH to be excluded from the calculation process

TRACES VERSION 3 Export module Disconnect Russian certificates until agreement Integrate pre-export certificates when ready (RU) Possibility to be used for other 1/3 countries (CA, US, HR, NZ)

TRACES VERSION 3 Laboratory module and RASFF Disconnect reinforced control Guidance on reinforced check in process Group residues for test requests Consider the same product category as in RASFF

TRACES VERSION 3 Box 10 and time limit to be removed (warehouse incompatibility and no legal basis) No limitation for the printing of the ID of animals Transport tab in CVEDP must be compulsory even for re-dispatch

TRACES IMPROVEMENT WISHES Multiple CN codes to be discussed in mixed WG including possible extension to 8 digits Multiple CN codes and ship suppliers Advanced search criteria Screen display to match certificate display Consider consignment partially accepted (legal basis) DWH and access to the BO universe Interface for CVED

TRACES IMPROVEMENT WISHES Display the reason for refusal Free text box for refusal Competency and certificate validation (regionalization) Control and intra trade CVEDA and direct rejection

TRACES BIP controls Data mining tool to be experimented and extended to identity checks Country profiles to be transparent