1. BOVEX Electronic bovine passport exchange
Presentation to
Ministero Della Salute
Rome
30/5 – 1/6 2012

2. Overview of presentation
Introduction and background
Technical part
Use-cases
Data dictionary
Some concrete advise for connecting to BOVEX:
Intial tests
Developing a client system
Conclusions

3. Introduction and background
Part 1
Introduction and background

4. Business case Intiative under EU Animal Health Strategy 2007 – 2013:
"TRACES: single portal for all veterinary matters"
Investigate interoperability between national databases of bovine animals
Pilot phase, follow-up
The need for exchange has been emphasized by multiple MS on more than one occasion

5. Overview Start simple: Basic set of operations:
64/432 minimums
Basic set of operations:
Upload
Recall
Retrieve
Acknowledge
Verification against veterinary certificate before passport can be retrieved

6. History of project 2009 – 2010: Development of prototype system
2010: Initial tests by BE, IT, DE
2011: Tests by GR, ES
: Further interest from FR, IE, LV, PL
2012: Go live Q3 – Q4

7. What are the potential benefits?
Veterinary: Increased security, traceability and accuracy
Efficiency: Reduce the administrative burden
Over 3 million bovines transported every year
Assume dematerialisation saves 1 minute per passport
Already 1/3 dematerialised means yearly savings of 1 million minutes, or around 10 man years!
Even without full dematerialisation, BOVEX can help streamline the passport transfer!

8. Part 2
Technical part

9. Use-cases view Submit EO2 EO1 Retrieve Acknowledge NatDB2 NatDB1
Sending country
Destination country

10. Use-case 1: submit passports (intent to export)
EO1
NatDB1
BOVEX
eartags
retrieve in DB
passports
submit(…)
store in
exchange DB

11. Use-case 2: retrieve passports (upon arrival)
EO2
NatDB2
BOVEX
TRACES
Passports
Certificate reference
retrieve(IDs)
getCertData(…)
checks
Passports
error codes
processing
Valid?
Destination country?
Identifier numbers match?

12. Use-case 3: acknowledge passports
NatDB1
NatDB2
BOVEX
acknowledge(IDs)
retrieved?
OK, error codes
NotifyAck(IDs)

13. Architecture overviewMS EC
XMLGate
MS authority
Opaque
message
BOVEX
message
https
BOVEX
Process
export/import
INTRA.IT.2012….
TRACES
Passports exchange
LVU
Create / check
health certificate
TRACES
Certificate

14. Data Dictionary: Message structure
XMLGate WS Call
BOVEX WS Call

15. Data Dictionary: PassportType

16. Data Dictionary: submit passports

17. Data Dictionary: retrieve passports
One per
eartag

18. Some practical advise Known to work with: Java (JAX-WS, Axis2), .NET
First establish connectivity:
SOAPUI: SumService call
Run the SimpleClient Java program from HOWTO bundle
Start simple: Develop a SumService client in your target environment before more advanced things

19. Trouble shooting Error codes:
"SXG…" means XMLGate related error
"BVX…" means BOVEX detected an error
Project functional mailbox:

20. Part 3
Conclusions

21. Current Planning Prepare production deployment:
Provide a recall mechanism
Extend to support EID type (support legal base)
Support passport numbers different than eartags as key for retrieval
Make more robust (ear tag formats, date checks…)
Target deployment: Q3 / early Q4 2012

22. Once deployed… Gain momentum and experience with real usage:
ES, GR seem more or less ready to go live
BE, FR, IT, LV show active interest, others have requested information
We will support all interested MS in using the exchange
We will ensure the level of service as required

23. …and towards full dematerialisation
Digital signature support:
non-disputable identification of sender
non-modifiable
timestamping
Extend protocol beyond 64/432 (UN/CEFACT):
Mother and father eartag
vaccination history support
more thorough handling of breed and colour codes …