1. State of play TRACES Working Group, Oct 2 2013
BOVEX
State of play
TRACES Working Group, Oct

2. Background Initial project initiative in 2007, aiming
to provide an electronic exchange mechanism for bovine passports between trading MS
to help improve efficiency and accuracy in administration of national bovine DB
to enable dematerialisation of the bovine passport
Actual development of system : 2007 – 2013
uncertainty of buy-in from MS -> ES, IT, GR, FR now onboard
uncertainty of legal base -> 1760/2000 update is happening

3. Highlights 2013 March: meeting IT, ES BOVEX teams
Discussion and agreement on set of necessary adaptations
Roadmap agreed for deploying with live transfers
April: first real exchanges between ES, IT
August: GR ready to join exchanges
September: IT uploads first passports for GR
Later 2013: FR getting ready to develop interface between BDNI and BOVEX

4. Changes in 2013 Following March meeting: Version 2.10 deployed April
Possible to specify TRACES certificate reference when submitting passports
Provision of facility APIs to quickly query for passport numbers available for retrieval
Passport retrieval by TRACES reference
Notification in XML format
Version 2.10 deployed April
Version 2.20 deployed July (bugfixes)

5. Experience of first exchanges
For the period of April – August:
8595 passports were uploaded
4385 of these were retrieved and acknowledged
4014 were not retrieved
196 were recalled
While not a bad start, retrieval ratio can improve
Some bugs and issues were signaled and corrected
Some additional needs were identified

6. Example of a BOVEX submission

7. The TRACES side

8. Future roadmap Support inclusion of more MS:
During 2013: Greece, France
2014: ???
Extend functionality ( ):
Acknowledge notification by asynchronous webservice instead of
New method to request missing passports to country of origin ("notify import")
Possibility to include digital signature (in anticipation of legal base)