1. Exchange of bovine passport data between national databases using BOVEX
Rome, 11/6/2015 Lars SKARINGER

2. Background The bovine passport transfer is mandated by COM/1760/2000
The bovine animal's data, including its previous movements, must be entered into the database of the country of destination
The manual transfer of this poses several problems
Quality – human factor puts data quality at risk
Costs for the authorities
Costs for the economic operators
There is a real need to make the transfer more efficient and effective

3. Bovine movements: Origin

4. Bovine movements: Destination

5. Laying the foundations
The update to 1760/2000 adds support for electronic ID and dematerialisation of the bovine passport
"Pilot" project defined in EUAHS 2007 – 2013 to verify feasibility of interconnecting national bovine DBs
This "pilot" is finished and the conclusion is that it is possible
Development and launch of BOVEX

6. Outline Webservice, based on XML
The minimum necessary according to legal base (date and place of birth, sex, race…)
A set of basic operations:
Methods to send and receive passport data ("upload", "retrieve"…)
Auxiliary "helper" methods to facilitate the client side implementation ("query", "list"…)
Automatic check in TRACES for validity of veterinary certificate

7. The passport
Paper
BOVEX

8. The main use cases Submit EO2 EO1 Retrieve Acknowledge NatDB2 NatDB1
Country of origin
Country of Destination

9. Outline 1: submit passports
EO1
NatDB1
BOVEX
eartags
retrieve in DB
passports
submit(…)
store in
exchange DB
Country of Origin

10. Outline 2: retrieve passports
EO2
NatDB2
BOVEX
TRACES
Passports
Certificate reference
retrieve(IDs)
getCertData(…)
checks
Passports
error codes
processing
Valid?
Destination country?
Identifier numbers match?
Country of Destination

11. Outline 3: acknowledge passports
NatDB1
NatDB2
BOVEX
acknowledge(IDs)
retrieved?
OK, error codes
NotifyAck(IDs)
Country of
Origin
Country of
Destination

12. The benefits Security and quality: Substantial time savings possible
Secure connection between machines
Eliminate manual treatment
Automatic verification in TRACES
Fraud becomes difficult, even near impossible
Substantial time savings possible
Statistical overview in "near real time" via TRACES "Qlikview", with link to TRACES certificate to facilitate follow-up

13. Participants and volumes
France, Italy, Spain and Greece have developed operational connections
Volumes early June 2015 (starting from January):
~ passports sent
~ retrieved
There is still work to be done, but we are on the good path

14. Statistics by Destination country (May)
# passports
in TRACES I.30
# submitted
to BOVEX
# retrieved to
destination DB

15. Summary and outlook to the future
The BOVEX interface is available and is mature to be used by multiple Member States
Several connections exist, based on diverse technologies ("Java", ".NET" etc.)
The investment needed for a Member State is very reasonable (months, not years …)
We foresee to
Support the connection of more countries (PT, LV, …)
Together with MS continue to evolve and enhance the service
Enable total passport dematerialisation by means of digital signature

16. Need more info? TRACES Toolkit!

17. Thank you for your attention