COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 
C0M(91) 12 final 
Brussels, 31 January 1991 
ANNUAL REPORT BY THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 
AND THE COUNCIL 
On the setting up of the CADDIA computerized telecommunications systems and the 
implementation of the long-term development programme 
1 July 1989 to 30 June 1990 
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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 
The CADDIA* programme and activities derive from Council Decision 85/214/EEC 
of 26 March 1985 concerning the coordination of the activities of the Member States 
and the Commission relating to the implementation of a long-term programme for the 
use of telematics for Community information systems concerned with imports/exports 
and the management and financial control of agricultural market organizations. 
2. The long-term CADDIA development programme has been prepared, updated and 
approved by the CADDIA Steering Committee, formed under the Council Decision 
referred to above. 
This report, which is expressly provided for in Article 4 of said decision, describes the 
various activities and operational applications either under development or planned up 
to 1993 and covers the period (1 July 1989 to 30 June 1990) of the work of the 
Committee which met for the first time in October 1985. 
4. The initial period of validity laid down in Article 5 of decision 85/214/EEC and Article 
6 of decision 86/23/EEC has been extended by five years by Council Decision 
87/288/EEC of 1 June 1987. 
Cooperation in the Automation of Data and Documentation for Imports/exports and Agriculture. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
Pages 
Summary * 3 
1. Introduction and background 5 
2. General report on the CADDIA programme 6 
3. Organization and resources 15 
4. Conclusion 17 
Annexe 1 
Detailed sectoral reports 
Annexe 2 
CADDIA work programme 
(CSC 86/001 on 14.08.86) 
Annexe 3 
Acronyms 
ANNUAL REPORT ON THE CADDIA PROGRAMME 
For the period 1 July 1989 to 30 June 1990 
SUMMARY 
The CADDIA programme concerns the co-ordination of the activities of theMember 
States and the Commission for the implementation of a long-termprogramme on the use of 
computerized telecommunications in Communityinformation systems on imports and 
exports, on the management and financialcontrol of agricultural market organizations and 
the collection anddissemination of statistical data on Community trade. 
The CADDIA programme was set up by the Council Decision of 26 March 1985 foran 
initial period of two years. 
The decision provided for the creation of a Steering Committee made up ofrepresentatives 
of the Member States and the Commission officialsresponsible for the sectors concerned. 
The Committee is chaired by theCommission and is responsible for drawing up and, where 
appropriate,updating the CADDIA development programme and for ensuring that work 
iscarried out in accordance with the established programme. 
At the end of the initial two-year period, the Council decided to extend theCADDIA 
programme for a further five years. 
This fifth annual report covers the period from 1 July 1989 to 30 June 1990,during which 
the CADDIA Steering Committee met twice in October 1989 and Mayl990. 
The Steering Committee was kept regularly informed of the status of thesectoral and joint 
work scheduled in the work programme and approved thecontinuation of this work. 
In the customs sector, the work set out in the CD project was continued. 
The main activities consisted in the specification and development of anoperational real­
time system for the management of tariff quotas withelectronic information transfer, the 
specification, development andimplementation of a TARIC Interface electronic system, the 
development and implementation of an operational SCENT system, setting up an 
inspection andplanning team within the CD project, participation in the development 
ofEDIFACT messages, particularly those in the customs field, the analysis ofcoded customs 
information used in the Community, cooperation with EFTAcountries on subjects of 
mutual interest and involvement in reexamination ofrequirements for the completion of the 
Internal Market. 
In the agricultural sector, the AMIS system is mainly used by thedepartments responsible 
for the daily management of market organization. 
With the extension of the IDES (Interactive Data Entry System) application,the number of 
telexes transmitted by Member States was reduced and theduplication of data in the 
Commission was eliminated. 
The FIS (Fast Information System) project is operational and also offers an"electronic 
journal" for the consultation of agricultural data. 
In the EAGGF, the FBF (Feoga Budget Forecasting) application has beenoperational 
since November 1989. The AGREX (Agricultural Guarantee FundExpenditures) project is 
fully operational. 
The annexes relating to agricultural legislation (APACO project) are now transmitted 
through the data transmission networks. The SHIFT (System forAnimal Health Inspection 
at Frontier Posts) project should be operational(initial phase) by the end of 1990. Several 
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projects which mainly concern the exchange of data were started such as SICAMOR-ED to 
facilitate theexchange of data relating to the management of Structural Funds between the 
Commission and Member States, AIN-ED for State Aid and CACTI for joint agricultural 
and customs transmission between the Commission and MemberStates. 
In the statistical sector, work continued on the development of all theprojects in the general 
fields of infrastructure, agricultural and externaltrade statistics. The infrastructure projects 
concern the electronic transmission of data, which is starting to be used by a number 
ofstatistical services, the introduction of standards in statisticalapplications, the 
standardization of statistical reports and the setting upof a system for the collection of 
statistical data. 
As regards external trade statistics, the emphasis was placed on the improvement of world 
trade data, the creation of a data base on GSP imports and on the improvement of access 
to tariff data bases. 
In the field of agricultural statistics, the main emphasis is on the EUROFARM project 
(data base on agricultural structures). 
The pilot trials in the fields of teletransmission were extended in the three sectors. 
Work on message definition in accordance with the UN/EDIFACT) electronic data 
interchange standards made progress primarily in the customs sector (cf. CUSDEC and 
CUSRES messages) and the statistical sector by setting up the WE/EB-MD6 Statistics 
group which is studying the statistical aspects of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): 
definition of standardized statistical messages, statistical aspects of code lists, integration of 
requirements for the collection of statistical information in UN/EDIFACT messages. 
At the CADDIA Steering Committee meeting on 4 May 1988, the Commission suggested 
the launching of a strategic study to set out and adapt the aims and activities of the 
CADDIA programme in preparation for the completion of the Internal Market by the end 
of 1990. 
The aim of this study is to review the objectives of the programme and to determine the 
strategy and priority activities, taking into account not only the achievements and 
experience obtained, but also the new factors which have emerged since the beginning of 
the CADDIA programme. 
The study was started in November 1988 and the first phase was completed on 2 June 1989. 
The consultant's proposals were discussed with the Member States at the CADDIA 
Steering Committee Meeting in October 1989. 
The second phase started in January 1990. At the CADDIA Steering Committee Meeting 
held in May 1990, the Co-ordination/Infrastructure option was discussed. The remainder 
of this study will set out the CADDIA work programme for the next five years. Its 
conclusion will be discussed in the presence of Member States at the beginning of 1991. 
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1. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 
1.1 Council Decision 82/607/EEC of 28 July 1982 (OJ L 247/25, 23.8.82) provided for 
Member States to co-ordinate with the Commission a series of preparatory 
activities with a view to analyzing the needs, feasibility, costs and benefits of a 
concerted ten-year programme for the use of computerized telecommunication 
systems in the areas covered by CADDIA. 
1.2 A report and proposals were presented to the Council and to the European 
Parliament by a Preliminary Task Force (PTF) composed of representatives of the 
Member States and the Commission. 
1.3 The conclusions and recommendations of the PTF, drawn up late in 1983, served 
as a basis for the preparation of the Communication from the Commission to the 
Council of 13 March 1984 (COM 84/119 final) and the proposal for a Council 
Decision (same document). 
1.4 The CADDIA (*> programme and its activities arise out of the Council Decision 
of 26 March 1985. 
This Decision requires the Commission to report to Parliament and to the Council 
once a year on the setting-up of the CADDIA computerized telecommunication 
systems and on the implementation of the long-term development programme. 
That is the purpose of this fifth report which covers the fifth year of the CADDIA 
Steering Committee's work. 
The previous annual reports sent to the Parliament are as follows: 
COM(87)42 for the period 85/86 
COM(88)242 for the period 86/87 
COM(88)801 for the period 87/88 
SEC(90)79 for the period 88/89 
1.5 The CADDIA long-term development programme was drafted and approved by 
the CADDIA Steering Committee set up by the above mentioned Council 
Decision. 
1.6 On 1 June 1987, the Council (OJ L 145/86, 5 June 1987) took the decision to 
extend the initial period for five years. 
< ^Coopération dans l'Automatisation des Données et de la Documentation dans les 
Importations/Exportations et l'Agriculture 
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2. GENERAL REPORT ON THE CADDIA PROGRAMME 
2.1. Customs sector 
During the past year, work on the CD project was continued in accordance with 
the objectives set out in the previous CADDIA report. The principal activities 
carried out between 1 July 1989 and 30 June 1990 were as follows : 
- specification and development of an operational on-line system for the 
management of tariff quotas ; 
- specification, development and implementation of an electronic TARIC 
Interface system ; 
- development and implementation of an operational SCENT system ; 
- establishment of an integrated CD project control office ; 
- participation in the development of EDIFACT messages, especially those for 
customs purposes ; 
- analysis of customs coded information used within the Community ; 
- co-operation with EFTA on subjects of mutual interest ; 
- participation in reviews of the requirements for completion of the Internal 
Market. 
In 1990/91, the workplan for the CD project includes the continuation and 
finalisation, as appropriate, of activities currently in hand and the initiation of 
work in the following fields : 
- specification and development of an operational system to manage Binding 
Tariff Information ; 
- specification and development of a pilot project to assist with the control of 
Community Transit movements; 
- specification of a computer system to assist with the management of valuation 
information ; 
- functional specification of the TARIC 2 project. 
2.2 Agricultural sector 
The flow of benefits resulting from earlier infrastructure projects, increased use of 
communications applications and new developments has, as foreseen in the 
previous CADDIA report, continued and accelerated. 
The application AMIS (Agricultural Market Intelligence System) continues to 
provide an integrated data management system handling the extensive range of 
information needed for the day-to-day management of the CAP. Extensions in 
the use of IDES (Interactive Data Entry System) have led to further reductions in 
the need to recapture data at Brussels together with an increase in the efficiency 
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with which information is made available to users. Links between AMIS on the 
one hand and APACO/ANA (Actes périodiques agricoles et comités de 
gestion/Agricultural numerical annexes) and FIS (Fast Information System) on 
the other hand are now bearing fruit permitting rapid and reliable information 
flows. A new project, PAP (Prices of Agricultural Products) has been launched to 
establish a link between AMIS (which stores the data) and FIS (for 
dissemination). 
Development work on the FBF (FEOGA budget forecasting) application has been 
completed and the system has been operational since November 1989. The utility 
of this application was demonstrated in a marked fashion on the occasion of the 
realignment of the Italian Lire in January 1990. 
The AG REX (Agricultural Guarantee Fund Expenditures) application is now fully 
operational. Development of an interface with FIS for the dissemination of 
budgetary information is in hand; a first stage, the loading of the budgetary 
nomenclature into FIS has been successfully implemented. 
The CADDIA financed phase of FAUDIT (FEOGA auditing system) has been 
completed. The project continues and will use information available from 
AG REX and AMIS together with data from other sources to carry out cross 
checks and validations on the monthly and annual public storage cost statements 
received from Member States. 
The project SHIFT (System for animal health inspection at frontier posts) has a 
major role to play in supporting the harmonised veterinary procedures envisaged 
in the context of the completion of the Internal Market. The start up of the first 
phase, which will make information available for consultation by the veterinarian 
services in Member States, has been delayed but is now envisaged for the end of 
1990. 
Several new projects, concentrating on exchanges of data, have been started during 
the period covered by this report. SICAMOR-ED (Système d'information et 
coordination des actions en faveur du monde rural - Exchange of Data) is planned 
to facilitate exchange of data relating to management of the Structural Funds 
between Member States and the Commission. TREE-ED will facilitate the batch 
transmission of results from the annual forestry damage survey. AIN-ED (Aides 
nationales - Echange de données) has been launched in order to facilitate data 
exchange with Member States concerning state aids. This application will 
interface with an existing application AIN (Management of State Aids) to improve 
the speed of data exchanges. 
The new project CACTI (Common agriculture - customs transmission of 
information) has been launched to tighten the liaison between DG VI and DG 
XXI concerning the data exchange with Member States. With this project, a 
unique form of communication between the Commission and the MS's will be 
established for the data concerning both agriculture and customs. An example of 
such data is reference prices of agricultural products applicable in external trade, 
which are managed by DG VI and used by the customs authorities of Member 
States. 
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For the future, the CADDIA work plan of the agricultural sector will continue to 
emphasise the development of communication projects which make full use of 
modern network technology and standards building on the established applications 
which provide the fundamental IT support to the management of the Common 
Agricultural Policy. 
2.3 Statistical sector 
In the statistical sector, EUROSTAT has continued the development of general 
infrastructure systems and projects concerning external trade and agricultural 
statistics relevant to the CADDIA programme. 
The general systems cover the following fields: 
- Electronic transmission of statistical data (STATEL project); 
- Analysis and introduction of standards and standardizing processes in 
exchanges between statistical applications (STANORM project); 
- Standardization of the production and distribution of statistical reports 
(STRING project); 
- The setting-up of a collection centre for statistical data using the 
UN/EDIFACT standard (STADIUM project). 
These projects constitute an integrated whole intended to cover infrastructure 
requirements for the reciprocal exchange of statistical information between 
EUROSTAT, the European Institutions, the Member States and other 
participating bodies. 
For external trade statistics, EUROSTAT has continued its development activities 
which have made possible concrete achievements in the following fields: 
- Compensation for missing data in world trade matrices by a combination of 
forecasting methods and artificial intelligence techniques 
- Creation of an imports data base on the lines of generalized preferences; 
- Adaptation of data bases following the introduction of new nomenclatures; 
- Improvement of the access to trade and tariff data bases; 
- The integration of different data bases. 
For agricultural statistics, the development activities have been concentrated 
mainly on the following: 
- The establishment of a system to support the sectoral production and income 
model for Community agriculture (SPEL project); 
- The establishment of an agriculture data base (EUROFARM project). 
2.4 Joint projects 
DG XIII/D/5 is responsible for the co-ordination of the CADDIA programme. 
This involves mainly: 
- Budget management, i.e. the allocation and control of resources granted to 
sectoral projects; 
- The administration of experts' contracts 
- The supervision of sectoral projects. 
The co-ordination of CADDIA is also aimed at developing the technological 
options necessary for the harmonized implementation of electronic data 
interchange. 
The following activities have been undertaken in this context: 
- Use of the Eurokom service for electronic document transfer 
A preliminary analysis was carried out in 1989 to determine the possibilities of 
establishing an environment for the electronic transfer of documents between the 
Commission and the Member States. 
This analysis recommended the use of an information system which includes, for 
each activities sector, the references of all the documents transmitted as part of 
working meetings. 
In order to meet the requirements and wishes of participants in Member States, 
DG XIII proposed temporary use of the Eurokom service which is managed by 
University College Dublin. 
The Eurokom service is an electronic mail system, i.e. a set of mailboxes where 
users can leave or pick up messages. Other facilities such as conferencing are also 
available. A conference is a mailbox which is shared by a user group (conference 
participants) through which several users can exchange information. This 
information is accessible to the entire group. 
Enrolment forms were sent to officials in the Commission sectors as well as to all 
official representatives of each sector in the Member States. 
Training sessions were organized for Commission departments and were offered to 
representatives of the Member States. 
In practice, each CADDIA sector in the Commission set up its own conferences. 
These contain the following information. 
DG XIII 
CADDIA Public Information: references to official CADDIA documents. 
CADDIA General Information: list of official representatives, announcements of 
meetings and agendas. 
CADDIA Common Projects: news relating to joint projects. 
DGVI 
CADDIA Agriculture 
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DGXXI 
CADDIA Customs 
Eurostat 
CADDIA Statistics 
These last three conferences contain information on sector working groups aswell 
as news relating to projects. 
- Study work to set up national servers 
For the exchange of structured data between the Commission and Member States, 
DG XIII suggested that Member States set up national servers. 
A national server is defined as a data switching system for the exchange of 
structured information between the Commission and the national administrations 
involved in the CADDIA programme. 
Five countries asked to be involved in defining and setting up such a 2system at a 
national level. 
Study work was initiated by DG XIII. The situation is as follows: 
United Kingdom 
A preliminary analysis was carried out by a British consultant. 
The final report was accepted by the Commission. 
DG XIII suggested draft terms of reference for the feasibility study to sectors in the 
Commission and the British administration. 
A call for tenders for the feasibility study will be published shortly. 
The feasibility study should start in January 1991 in principle. 
Denmark 
The Danish preliminary analysis started in May 1990. It is intended to widen the 
scope of analysis of the requirements of users and to highlight the national 
infrastructure as well as the possibilities for co- ordinating and managing such a 
national system. 
Greece 
The Greek Ministry of Agriculture and the Statistics Office officially requested the 
Commission to start a preliminary analysis. 
Representatives of the three Greek sectors were invited to attend an information 
meeting in Brussels with sectors in the Commission. 
It was agreed to begin preliminary analysis in the immediate future. 
Luxembourg 
A meeting took place in Luxembourg at the State Information Centre (CIE) 
between Luxembourg representatives and CADDIA and INSIS representatives 
from the Commission. DG XIII will shortly announce a call for tenders for a 
feasibility study. 
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France 
DG XIII will shortly announce a call for tenders to carry out a feasibility study 
concerning the setting up of one or more servers for the French administrations. 
The setting up of such systems is perfectly in line with the Commission's 
computerization policy. In the medium term, the Commission has decided to set 
up telecommunication centres which will represent input and output gateways for 
all data exchanged between the departments of the Commission and the outside 
world. 
In this context, close collaboration with the INSIS programme will be carried out. 
Strategic study 
With the review of the CADDIA work programme in mind, which was to be carried 
out by the CADDIA Steering Committee in 1989, the Commission decided to carry 
out a strategic study to define and adapt the objectives and activities of the 
CADDIA programme in preparation for the completion of the Internal Market for 
1993. 
The aim of the strategic analysis is to review to objectives of the CADDIA 
programme, the strategy and the activities, taking into account the achievements 
and experience obtained, and also the new factors which have emerged since the 
beginning of the CADDIA programme. 
The principle tasks were set out on two levels, as follows: 
1) To take note of and examine the aims of the different sectors and past, 
current and proposed activities. 
To analyze these activities and objectives as a function of: 
- The interaction of the various sectors; 
- The setting up of the Single Market for January 1993; 
- Recent technological progress in computerized telecommunications and 
data processing; 
- Developments in the standardization of electronic data interchange 
(EDI) 
2) To draft recommendations of: 
- The aims and priorities of the CADDIA programme; 
- The strategy to adopt in order to achieve the objectives, including the 
optimum structure for management and control; 
- Current activities under the CADDIA programme and the need for new 
activities; 
- The resources necessary for these objectives to be achieved (procedures 
within the Commission, total appropriations, implications in the 
Member States, activities in the fields of public awareness, publicity, 
information and training. 
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These tasks will be carried out in close collaboration with the Commission 
departments involved and the administrations of the Member States. 
Provision was made for this study to take place in two separate contractual stages 
in accordance with the breakdown of tasks defined above. 
The first stage of the study started in November 1988. The consultant had 
meetings with the Commission departments and the national administrations of 
the twelve Member States in January and February 1989. A report was sent to the 
official delegates of the Member States in July 1989. 
A meeting of the CADDIA Steering Committee took place in October 1989 in 
order to discuss the consultant's recommendations and to set out guidelines for 
the second stage of the study. 
The second stage of the strategic study started in January 1990. 
The consultant initially proposed setting out the objectives and strategy to be 
adopted. Sectoral meetings involving officials from Commission departments and 
national representatives of the sectors involved were held in February 1990. 
A report was sent to the official delegates of the Member States in April 1990. In 
his report, the consultant defined three strategic options for the new work 
programme. 
- Application option; 
- Infrastructure option; 
- Co-ordination option. 
The consultant presented these options to the Member States during a meeting of 
the CADDIA Steering Committee which took place on 21 May 1990. An option 
referred to as "Coordination/Infrastructure" which combines elements from the 
various options proposed by the consultant was also presented by the Commission 
departments. 
This option was defined by all the Commission CADDIA sectors (DG XXI, DG 
VI and Eurostat), DG XIII and DG IX Informatics. 
This option includes the infrastructure projects and the co-ordination activities of 
the programme. The special feature of this option is the fact that the activities 
relating to the establishment of an infrastructure for the exchange of data between 
the Commission and the Member States are split into two parts: Study/analysis on 
the one hand and development/installation on the other hand. 
Study and analysis work will be handled by the CADDIA programme whereas 
INSIS and STAR will be responsible for development and the installation of the 
infrastructure. 
In addition, given the fact that the concept of the European neural network will be 
based on projects which are in progress in CADDIA among others, it is important 
for this programme to define its requirements in terms of infrastructure. 
Taking care of operational systems will come under other Commission budgets 
and, to a certain extent, budgets of Member States. 
Eleven delegations approved the option proposed by the Commission 
departments. 
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The final phase of the strategic study started in June 1990. The aim of this phase is 
to set out, for the next five years, and on the basis of the strategic option adopted, 
a concrete work programme involving the Commission departments as well as the 
administrations of Member States. 
- Other co-ordination activities include close cooperation with the TEDIS 
programme on the standardization of messages and, more particularly, private 
and public sector co-operation in this field. 
2.4.1 Sectoral pilot trials 
- The CADDIA sectors continued their pilot trials in the period 1989- 1990. 
These have been extended to other applications or have undergone certain 
improvements. These are, in particular: 
- SCENT (System Customs Enforcement Network) (customs sector): 
Exchange of urgent messages concerning fraudulent evasion of customs 
and agricultural regulations. 
- TARIC (TARif Intégré Communautaire) (customs sector): 
Transmission of tariff data in several Community languages. 
- IDES (Interactive Data Entry System) (agricultural sector): Notification 
of animal diseases and communication of market prices for pigmeat, 
cowmeat and sheepmeat and monthly reporting of EAGGF 
expenditures in the guarantee section. 
- FIS (Fast Information Systems) and MCM (Montants Compensatoires 
Monétaires) (agricultural sector): consultation of agricultural 
information. 
- STATEL (STAtistiques TELétransmission) (statistical sector): 
Information on pilot trials with the Member States on the exchange of 
industrial economic data. 
- STADIUM (STAtistical Data Interchange Universal Monitor) 
(statistical sector): central body for the correction of statistical data 
from the Member States for distribution to EUROSTAT applications. 
- STRINGS (STatistical Report Integrated Generation Service) 
(statistical sector): final choices in terms of hardware, software and 
standardization infrastructure (Cf. SGML) allowing the production and 
dissemination (in electronic form) of statistical reports including text, 
tables and graphics. 
Equipment for the trials was loaned to the partner bodies in each sector in 
the Member States. The Commission selected hardware and software by 
the Commission's data-processing policy. National packet-switching 
networks were chosen to transmit the information. The solutions adopted 
by the sectors at present are provisional and do not conflict with the 
eventual electronics infrastructure. The aim of the Commission's policy 
and the CADDIA programme co-ordination policy is to achieve the widest 
possible adoption of standards in force in the field of telecommunications. 
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With regard to the transfer of data between computer systems, the aim is 
to use products based on the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model 
and, more particularly, products conforming to the FTAM standard or 
CCITT X.400 Recommendations. 
2.4.2 Standardization of data interchange 
Major CADDIA activities are underway in this field: 
In the customs sector: 
- Continuation of work on optional data elements and codes for the SAD 
(Single Administrative Document) with a view to harmonization and 
rationalization; 
- The CUSDEC and CUSRES (response message) messages were 
submitted to United Nations rapporteurs for their technical approval 
and were submitted to the MD3 group of the EDIFACT Board. Having 
achieved international trial status (STATUS 1), these two messages will 
be presented to working group No. 4 of the Economic Commission for 
Europe at the United Nations in September 1990 for confirmation of 
their status. 
The MD3 group of the EDIFACT Board for Western Europe is 
responsible for the development of customs messages and other official 
messages. Standard messages created by the working group for customs 
messages (SMWG) are presented to MD3 to check conformity. 
At the initiative of EUROSTAT, the statistical sector is actively 
participating in the creation of the WE/EB-MD6 statistical group of the 
EDIFACT Board for Western Europe. 
The work of the WE/EB/MD6 group relates to : 
- Taking into account the needs of statisticians (private and public 
sectors) in the drawing up of standardized messages for statistical 
information collection or dissemination purposes: EDI) and statistics; 
- Definition of statistical messages for the interchange of approved 
statistical data: EDI for statistics. 
Under the chairmanship of EUROSTAT and the vice-chairmanship of 
SWISSPRO, the WE/EB-MD6 group is starting its work with satisfactory 
involvement of national statistics institutes, international organizations 
which are active in statistics and trade facilitation organizations. 
The international organizations (UN/ECE, UN/SO, OECD, IMF, PM, 
EFTA etc.) support the activities of the WE/EB-MD6 group to facilitate 
the collection, transmission, processing and re-use of statistical 
information. Contacts have already been made to set up equivalent groups 
in other regional structures of the UN/EDIFACT Board. 
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3. ORGANIZATION AND RESOURCES 
3.1 Internal organization 
3.1.1 Internal co-ordination 
The CADDIA programme is implemented in the Commission by four 
services: 
- DG XXI : Directorate for External Tariff Questions for the CD 
Project; 
- DG VI : Directorate for General Matters for the Agricultural 
Projects; 
- EUROSTAT : Directorate for Dissemination and Computerized 
Statistics; 
- DG XIII : Directorate for Telecommunications for Joint 
Projects and Technical Co-ordination and 
Administration of Projects. 
The CPIG (CADDIA Policy Interservice Group), consisting of the 
Director for Telecommunications of DG XIII who is chairman, the 
Director for External Tariff Questions of DG XXI, the Director for 
Informatics of DG IX, the Director for General Matters of DG VI and the 
Director for Dissemination and Computer Processing of statistics of the 
SOEC, supervises the co-ordination for the various Commission 
departments involved in CADDIA. The work is done by a team consisting, 
at the present time, of the head of the CADDIA sector and one permanent 
member of staff. In addition, there are two experts working with the 
central team, particularly in the field of the technical supervision of the 
projects and studies and for the definition and setting up of national 
servers. 
The CADDIA co-ordination team is also responsible for keeping 
administrative files on the external contractors recruited for the various 
sectoral projects. 
Apart from administrative and budget management, the CADDIA sector 
is responsible for liaison between and co-ordination of sectoral projects, 
the implementation of joint projects and any technical assistance that may 
be necessary under these projects. 
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3.1.2 Human resources 
The present dearth of posts for officials at the Commission has obliged it 
to turn to private-sector contractors to be able to cope with all the 
CADDIA work. The breakdown of resources was approximately as follows 
in 1989/1990: 
Central 
Customs Agriculture Statistics Team 
Officials 6 10 5,5 2 
External staff 19 20 17 2 
Most of the external staff is required only during the development of specific applications. 
However, provision must be made for some posts for officials to maintain and manage the 
systems set up under the CADDIAproject. 
3.2 Expenditure 
3.2.1 The expenditure committed during 1989 and planned for 1990 is set out in 
the table below. It is financed from budget item B 7704. 
1990(plan) 1989 1st half of 1990 
(engaged) 
Sectors '000 ecus % '000 ecus % '000 ecus 
Customs 1.727 30 1.384 28 816 
Agriculture 1.510 26 1.126 23 1.362 
Statistics 1.420 25 1.459 29 1.164 
Joint projects 772 13 565 11 208 
Management expenses 320 6 464 9 325 
TOTAL 
5.750 100 4.998 100 3.875 
BUDGET 
ALLOCATED 5.500 5.000 
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This expenditure can be broken down into the following basic items for 1989: 
Remuneration of experts 83 % 
Joint projects - Studies 5 % 
Administrative backup for experts 4 % 
Management expenditure 5 % 
(cost of meetings and contract 
administration) 
Purchase/leasing of computer 2 % 
equipment 
Cost of using data transmission 1 % 
networks 
4. CONCLUSION 
CADDIA activities have therefore continued in accordance with the objectives set out 
in the previous report 
The main factors during the period under review are as follows: 
- Continuation of the study on the strategic guidelines of the CADDIA programme, 
i.e. setting out the objectives and priority activities which must be undertaken in the 
run up to the large Internal Market in 1992. 
- The launching of studies (preliminary analysis and feasibility studies) for several 
Member States with a view to defining and setting up computerized systems at a 
national level for the interchange of data between the Commission and the Member 
States. 
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ANNEX 1 
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DETAILED PROGRAMME OF THE CUSTOMS SECTOR 
1. INTRODUCTION 
1.1. The development of computer systems to meet customs and fiscal requirements is 
a crucial part of the Single Market implementation programme. Many of the 
computer requirements are common to both sectors. They include 
communications networks to enable files of data and messages to be exchanged 
electronically between the Commission and Member States, and between Member 
States themselves, trader interfaces to enable data to be exchanged between 
national administrations and traders, and central databases to provide customs 
and fiscal information for both administrations and traders. 
1.2. DG XXI already has electronic data interchange systems in operation with all 
Member States for TARIC updates and with some Member States for other 
applications. These are relatively simple terminal to terminal systems which must 
be replaced by more comprehensive and efficient facilities. This will require the 
establishment of communications centres in the Commission and Member States. 
A pilot project involving Denmark and the U.K. is already being designed within 
the CADDIA framework and it is felt that a Community-wide system, based on 
this pilot project, could be implemented rapidly. 
1.3. TARIC, as a Community instrument, has an important role to play, and it has a 
significant place in the history of database systems development within the 
Commission for the following reasons: 
- On 1.1.1988 it was the first database to be fully operational in all nine 
Community languages; 
- On 1.9.1989 it was the first database to allow electronic data transmissions in all 
nine Community languages. 
1.4. Member States are at various stages of customs systems development and this is a 
factor which makes it difficult to ensure the uniformity of treatment necessary for 
the achievement of the Single Market. In the past, some Member States have 
raised the question of Community funds being used to assist their customs 
computer development. Hitherto, the Commission response to such suggestions 
has always been negative. However, this idea needs to be re-examined within 
the concept of the European Nervous System. 
1.5. Hitherto, very little attention has been paid to the development of fiscal computer 
systems. Now that the need for greater integration in the fiscal field has been 
identified in the context of the Single Market, more effort will be required in this 
area. A decision to include indirect taxes in CADDIA has not yet been taken. 
However, the subject is presently being examined within the CADDIA Strategic 
Study. 
1.6. A shortage of technically qualified personnel with relevant customs experience 
continues to represent the major constraint on systems development. The situation 
is exacerbated as several experienced staff have left and others must shortly leave 
the project to comply with the three year rule. Replacement staff will need to be 
suitably trained before becoming fully productive. 
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2. CD COORDINATION 
2.1. A project control office has been established in DG XXI-01. This team is making 
use of project managementsoftware tools such as EXCELERATOR and PMW to 
control the various systems under development within the CD Project. 
3. INTRA-COMMUNITY TRADE SUB-SYSTEM 
3.1. The schemes for controlling transit movements, as outlined in last years report, 
have now progressed to pilot project status and are described in section 5. 
4. IMPORT & EXPORT SUB-SYSTEMS 
4.1. The pilot projects described in the previous CADDIA report have now become 
operational systems. As stated in that report resources are being concentrated on 
operational systems which support improved management of customs activities 
within the Community. 
4.2. SCENT 
4.2.1. Work Progress 
On May this year installation of the system was completed in Spain. Thus 
all Member States are now operational and SCENT will become 
dependent upon an operational budget. 
Training was given to the Spanish users in basic usage of the system and 
additional training in the more advanced facilities is planned. The latter is 
also scheduled for Portugal and Italy. 
The latest version of the system, 1.5, is in the process of installation in all 
Member States. Only PT, IT and DE have not: yet received this upgrade. 
In addition to the original twelve Olivetti machines issued to MS's for 
Scent, systems are now installed on other PC's : NL - 4 (IBM PS/2, Tulip 
SX, Tulip PC, Tandon) IE - 2 (IBM, Olivetti M290) and tests have been 
carried out on a Toshiba laptop (DK), a Siemens SX (EC) and a Hewlett-
Packard Vectra (BE). 
Only one of these tests has proved troublesome. The screen of the HP 
Vectra reacts quite differently to the usual CGA/EGA format and 
considerable software changes would be required to produce an 
operational system. 
4.2.2. Medium Term Prospects 
Requests for additional installations are anticipated from FR (Direction 
Nationale de Recherche et Enquêtes Douanières in Paris), EL 
(Investigation Divisions in Piraeus and Thessalonika) and BE (Regional 
Investigation Divisions in Brugge and Antwerp). 
Fourteen users in Member States, who liaise with DG VI, are also 
scheduled for connection to the network. 
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Other potential installations are currently under discussion 
MAG 92 - the proposal is to test the Scent interface for acceptance as the 
information carrier for their future needs. 
DG XXI (C) - agreement has been reached that VAT investigators should 
have the same facilities already available to customs and agriculture 
investigators. 
A seminar is planned for September this year where current and potential 
Scent users will be invited to discuss actual and future requirements and 
priorities and timescales will be established. 
4.3 TARIFF QUOTAS 
4.3.1 Work progress 
The Court of Justice gave a ruling at the end of September 1988 <*> fixing 
the allocation of quotas, to the extent that this allocation is not justified by 
constraining circumstances of an administrative, technical or economical 
nature blocking the Community management of the quota. 1989 was a 
transitional year: roughly 100 GSP and 14 mediterranean quotas were 
controlled using the "strict control" procedure which had previously been 
applied to a very limited number of projects. 
Early in 1990 all the quotas controlled by DG XXI were entered in the 
system and are controlled using the strict control procedure. 
With a view to reducing the successive keyboarding of data both at 
Commission and at national administration level, a pilot trial for the 
electronic transfer of drawing requests and their responses was proposed 
to Member States. 
The Irish customs administration volunteered for this pilot electronic data 
interchange (EDI) trial. After a period of development and testing, the 
electronic transfer of drawing requests and their responses has been in 
operational use since 01.01.90. 
The Danish customs administration has also developed an interface which 
is currently undergoing testing and should be operational by 01.07.90. 
Several other Member States are currently developing a similar system. 
The management of ceilings and projects subject to surveillance was also 
included in the system. Electronic transmission of data from Member 
States to the Commission will also be possible. 
4.3.2 Medium-term prospects 
Most of the data should be transferred electronically by early 1991. Most 
of the Member States plan to use a PC but Spain, Germany and Portugal 
requested direct connection to the Commission's system from their host 
computer and this is in line with the Commission's computerization policy. 
***Judgement of 27.09.1988, case 51/87, recueil 1988 pag. 5459 
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4.4 BINDING TARIFF INFORMATION 
4.4.1 Work Progress 
A draft Regulation which is being discussed in the Council relating to 
binding tariff information (BTI) makes provision for all tariff information 
provided by a customs authority of a member state to be binding, i.e. it will 
be possible for other Member States to consult it on request. At a later 
stage it will be binding for all Member States. 
In order to allow effective implementation of this regulation, the 
Commission decided to set up, in DG XXI, a computerized system with 
the job of collecting binding tariff information originating from Member 
States, the Customs Nomenclature Commission or the Court of Justice in 
a data base which can be accessed by the various parties involved. 
The system will consist of a data base built up in the Commission and fed 
with binding tariff decisions taken in the Commission and in Member 
States. These decisions will be sent on a Community form or by electronic 
data interchange. 
Users (Member States or the Commission) will be able to interrogate the 
data base via the nomenclature (Harmonized System, TARIC) or by 
means of key words to find decisions relating to a merchandise description. 
It will be possible to enter these key words in the various national 
languages even if the text of the decisions has not been translated. 
4.4.2 Medium-term prospects 
A feasibility study is underway and will end with the production of a 
prototype. 
Development will start in September 1990 but the implementation of this 
system may be delayed by lack of available credits. 
5. PILOT PROJECTS 
5.1. Transit 
5.1.1. Work progress 
Following on from the proposal for a pilot project to control transit 
movements between non-authorised traders a working group has now been 
established consisting of representatives from France, Germany, Spain, 
Norway and Switzerland. This group will be responsible for the 
development of the pilot project and will report to the Movement of 
Goods Committee and the EEC/EFTA Working Party - Common Transit. 
The proposal for control procedures for movements of goods between 
authorised traders operating approved computer systems, which also 
covers imports, exports, customs warehousing, IPR, etc., has been 
discussed in the Movement of Goods Committee and is being distributed 
to representatives of the Customs Questions Committee, Deputies, 
Computer Working Party. 
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5.1.2. Medium Term Prospects 
It is anticipated that the pilot project for transit movements between non-
authorised traders will be in operation within 12 months. If evaluation of 
the pilot project is favourable then agreement will be sought to implement 
the system throughout the Community and EFTA countries on 1st January 
1993. 
Concerning the proposal on authorised traders, volunteers from both the 
Community and EFTA will be invited to provide representatives to a 
second working group to examine the proposal in detail and hopefully 
agree upon harmonised systems for use throughout Europe. 
6. TRADER INTERFACES 
6.1. Work progress 
Following informal discussions with some Member States and trade bodies it is 
considered premature to proceed with the introduction of "SMART" cards. 
6.2. Medium Term Prospects 
As indicated in last years report, developments in the areas of standards and 
message development have overtaken this work. These activities are reported 
upon in section 8. 
7. COMMISSION SYSTEMS 
7.1. TARIC INTRODUCTION 
7.1.1. The successful implementation on 1.9.89 of the TARIC interface system 
was the result of much hard work by personnel of DG XXI and in the 
Member State administrations. Thanks must also go to the staff of DG IX 
and DG XIII for their technical assistance, and supply of hardware and 
software, through the development stages of this project. It demonstrates 
that with sound cooperation, organisation and planning between the 
Member States and the Commission, joint projects have a good chance of 
succeeding. 
By the end of 1989, most Member States were benefitting from having 
TARIC information in an electronic format suitable for computerised 
processing. Currently all member states are linked to the TARIC Interface 
system, except Luxembourg who use a copy of the Belgian tariff 
information. 
7.1.2. TARIC development continues to be heavily dependent on Member State 
experts and external contract analyst/programmers, despite the arrival of a 
few permanent officials. 
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7.1.3. A new project, TARIC 2, has been launched to provide improved 
functionality and extended data requirements to a wider user community. 
In addition it will address and resolve certain problems inherent in the 
existing TARIC system. The first part of the new project will cover the 
Pre-analysis, Feasibility Study and Functional Specification phases, which 
is expected to be completed no later than July 1991. The work has been 
sub-contracted, but will be supervised closely by DG XXI. 
7.2. TARIC DATABASE 
7.2.1. Work Progress 
1. The conversion of the database to the enhanced format required for 
implementation of the TARIC Interface system was successfully carried 
out in July 1989, in accordance with project timescales. 
2. Enhancements to the Database System continue to be made to provide 
Member States and other users of the TARIC database with increasingly 
detailed and historically accurate information including: 
- improved extraction programs for the TARIC publication (in March 
1990); and 
- a facility to maintain historic records of : 
- footnotes for Nomenclature and measures ; and 
- additional codes. 
3. A pilot project to extract updates to the Combined Nomenclature from the 
TARIC database is in progress with the Office of Publications. The output 
file will be in a new internationally recognised standard format, SGML, 
which will ensure compatibility with the printer's processes thus reducing 
the quantity of data and the complexity of the processing required to 
produce the Combined Nomenclature publication. 
7.2.2. Medium Term Prospects 
- to concentrate on Phase 1 of the TARIC 2 project, with current and 
future enhancements being incorporated into the user requirements. 
The implication for the existing TARIC Database system is that only the 
minimum number of changes, those deemed essential by the TARIC 
Project Management Board, will be introduced; 
- to migrate to a new environment on the Siemens machine, in order to 
benefit from the latest releases of Adabas/Natural software. This will 
involve another phase of system testing but should lead to 
improvements in performance and security for users of the TARIC 
database. 
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7.3. TARIC INTERFACE 
7.3.1. Work Progress 
1. The TARIC Interface System was implemented successfully on 1.9.89 
following: 
- the development during 1988/1989 of the necessary programs, and their 
interaction with software packages provided by DG IX (Transix 
(MFTS), Kermit, IBG); 
- the installation of an Olivetti PC M240 in the Customs administration of 
each Member State; and 
- the testing of the full system linking up the Siemens computer in 
Luxembourg with the Unix system in Brussels and the Olivetti PC 
M240s in the Member States. 
Once per week the Interface system is used to transmit, electronically to 
each Member State, the updates to the TARIC database. 
Two types of output files are available in each Member State, one being a 
Print File for those Member States not yet using automated update 
procedures and one being a file for computer use by Member States who 
maintain their national tariff database on a computer. 
2. After nine months of operation, there are very few problems outstanding 
and the system is providing significant benefits to Member States. In the 
first place the information is in computer readable format, no longer have 
to data capture TARIC information as was the case in the previous paper 
based system. Additionally, the risk of data capture errors leading to 
incompatibility of goods descriptions or of duty rates being applied in 
different Member States is much less than before. Finally the delivery of 
the information is much faster than previously and the information, with 
very rare exceptions, is available in advance of its date of application. 
3. The TARIC Interface Working Group, which consists of representatives of 
all Member States and the Commission, has continued to meet to 
consider and resolve various problems which have occurred. 
The working documents, which are essential to assist Member States to 
develop software to process the TARIC data transmitted to their national 
tariff systems, continue to be maintained and are as follows: 
- File, Record, Data Item Specifications (XXI/744/89) 
- Transmission User Guide (XXI/746/89) 
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7.3.2. Medium Term Prospects 
- to introduce fully automated procedures so that the extraction of the 
updates to the TARIC database on the Siemens in Luxembourg can be 
processed on the Unix system in Brussels prior to onward transmission 
to each Member State without manual intervention; 
- to transfer the Interface system from the Unix (NCR) to Unix (Olivetti 
3B2); 
- to evaluate the feasibility of replacing transfers destined for the Olivetti 
PC with transfers direct from the Unix system to each Member State's 
national tariff system. This will take into account the availability of 
suitable FTAM tools for file transfer purposes as well as the availability 
of a National Server (currently a CADDIA pilot project); 
- to assist the TARIC 2 Project Team in extending the use of the TARIC 
Interface to a wider user community. 
8. DATA INTERCHANGE STANDARDS 
8.1 CUSTOMS MESSAGES 
8.1.1 Work progress 
The UNSM customs declaration message "CUSDEC" and the UNSM 
customs response message "CUSRES" developed jointly by collaboration 
between the customs services of the United States and the MD3 Message 
Development group of the Western European EDIFACT Board achieved 
international trial status (STATUS 1) in working group 4 of the United 
Nations Economic Commission for Europe (WP4 UN/ECE) in September 
1989. 
Both customs messages underwent substantial modifications to adapt them 
to the new segment, composite element and data element repertoires as a 
result of a segment alignment process and following the biennial meeting 
of the EDIFACT Board Rapporteurs teams which took place in Ottawa 
from the 23 to the 27 April 1990. These alterations were made without 
changing the functionality of the messages and without compromising the 
various customs requirements which had been expressed and are properly 
satisfied. 
Consequently and following general agreement by the UN/ECE 
EDIFACT Rapporteurs at the Ottawa meeting, both messages will be 
submitted to Working Group No. 4 of the United Nations Economic 
Commission for Europe in September 1990 for confirmation of status 1. 
8.1.2 Medium-term prospects 
After a trial period of 6 months and incorporating any changes which 
prove necessary, the two customs messages will be officially submitted in 
March 1991 to Working Group No. 4 of the United Nations Economic 
Commission for Europe with a view to granting them the international 
status of United Nations Standards (STATUS 2: UNSM). 
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In addition, in accordance with the priority laid down by the various 
parties concerned, the User's Manual or rather the APPLICATION and 
USE guide for the messages will have to be prepared to ensure they are 
applied in a uniform and harmonized manner at an international level. 
Finally, once the messages are stable at the level of EDIFACT authorities, 
attention will have to be given to formulating a decision by the 
Commission to promote their adoption in the Member States. 
8.2 CODES 
8.2.1 Work progress 
Work on codes for customs applications focused on customs messages and 
on the harmonization of the codes used by the twelve Member States for 
customs declaration purposes. 
The necessary codes for applying the customs messages were identified 
and described in order to ensure consistent interpretation of the data used. 
This work was carried out in close collaboration with representatives of the 
Commission, Member States, EFTA countries, the USA and the Customs 
Cooperation Council. 
In terms of efforts to achieve harmonization, documentation on the 
various codes used by Member States in the optional boxes of the SAD 
was produced and used as a basis for proposals which were made to start 
harmonization and rationalization work. 
8.2.2 Medium-term prospects 
Given the fact that harmonization of codes in use in the Community for 
customs data processing is becoming crucial, efforts will be directed 
towards continuing work in code definition with a view to harmonization 
and rationalization. 
9. LEGAL PROBLEMS AND REQUIREMENTS 
9.1 Work progress 
The departments of the Commission felt that the study report submitted by the 
FREE UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM was inadequate and unsuitable for the 
requirements which had been expressed. It was decided that the study would be 
continued by Commission personnel as a cooperative effort between the 
department in charge of legislation and the data processing department. In order 
to avoid the duplication of work completed during legal studies as part of the 
TEDIS project, the study will concentrate on administrative aspects and on 
procedures from a customs and tax viewpoint given the fact that the TEDIS 
project already covers the main problems but in the context of trade. 
The study makes provision for two separate stages, one stage relates to the 
customs field and the other deals with the field of indirect taxation. Analysis of the 
pertinent Community legislation and analysis of the legislation of Member States 
will be required for each stage. 
(Annexe) page 10 
Initial analysis of Community legislation in the customs field has been completed; 
the associated documentation will be circulated to member states for their 
comments. 
9.2 Medium-term prospects 
- Study work will be continued in collaboration with experts from Member 
States. 
- Legal studies carried out as part of the TEDIS programme will be 
monitored closely in order to exploit their possible applications in the 
administrative field. 
10. EFTA CO-OPERATION 
10.1. Work Progress 
The pattern of meetings has continued with representatives of the EFTA countries 
and EFTA Secretariat. Advice and guidance on general policy has been given as 
necessary by DG I. 
10.2. Medium Term Prospects 
The series of meetings and other exchanges of views on computing aspects 
concerning cooperation and coordination in the customs field will continue. 
As indicated in section 5 EFTA representatives are actively involved in the pilot 
projects for controlling transit movements. 
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2. DETAILED PROGRAMME OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR 
2.1 AMIS 
a) Purpose and description 
AMIS (Agricultural Market Intelligence System) is an integrated computer 
system that is operational in the Directorates responsible for the 
management of CMOs (Common Market Organizations). AMIS also 
supplies basic data on the markets to the Directorate responsible for the 
management of the EAGGF (European Agricultural Guidance and 
Guarantee Fund) for the guarantee section. 
The data processed by AMIS are those required for the day-to-day 
management of the Common Agricultural policy (CAP). These data are as 
follows: 
- Producer prices on the Community's internal market, 
- Offer prices on the world market for imported products, 
- Statistics on applications for and issue of import and export licences, 
- Statistics on the system for monitoring trade flows between Spain and 
Portugal on the one hand and the other Member States on the other 
(Supplementary Trade Mechanism (STM)), 
- Statistics on stock levels, 
- Consumption statistics, 
- Production statistics, 
- Statistics on agricultural expenditure under various headings 
(intervention buying, aids, export refunds). 
AMIS also covers the management systems for tenders for export and 
intervention for various common market organizations as well as the 
management system for tenders relating to food aid programmes. 
AMIS also contains institutional data fixed by the Council or the 
Commission: 
- Institutional prices in ECU fixed by the Council and derived prices, 
- Threshold prices. 
AMIS data are used in the periodic acts published in the Official Journal 
of the European Communities and communicated to the relevant 
administrations in the Member States (Agriculture and Customs): 
- Unit amounts of import levies and export refunds, 
- Unit amounts of Community aid. 
So 
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In addition there are the data required for the management of the 
Agrimonetary system: 
- Representative exchange rates or green exchange rates, 
- Exchange rates used for recording world market prices, 
- Monetary compensatory amounts. 
At present, all these data are stored in an internal production data base in 
the Agriculture Directorate-General and are not directly accessible for 
consultation by outsiders. 
Access to a limited number of these data is possible by means of the FIS 
system (see FIS) which is supplied with data by AMIS. 
b) Work in progress and medium-term prospects 
AMIS is an operational computer tool which has become essential for the 
day-to-day management of the CAP, the development of which was made 
possible under the CADDIA programme. The AMIS management team is 
currently carrying out maintenance and development work in line with the 
development of the CAP management rules in the various agricultural 
sectors. 
2.2 IDES (Interactive Data Entry System) 
a) Purpose and description 
IDES is an Interactive Data Entry System developed for the purpose of 
transmitting agricultural data electronically between Member States and 
the Directorate General for Agriculture at the Commission. It has been 
developed by the Data Processing Division of the Directorate General for 
Agriculture, DG VI/A/4 with the financial support of CADDIA. 
Ten telex message types are being used successfully by most of the 
Member States - i.e.: 
- three veterinary messages concerning: 
1) animal disease outbreak notification, 
2) notification/additions to be made to 1) above 
3) notification when the disease has been successfully eradicated and the 
area in question has been cleared by the authorities 
- an internal market price message for pigmeat 
- an internal market price message for sheepmeat. 
The veterinary messages feed the ADNS application (Animal Disease 
Notification System) while those concerning internal market prices feed the 
PMI (prix Marché Intérieur) sub application of AMIS application 
(Agricultural Management Information System). 
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A range of new messages has been implemented in the course of the period 
covered by the present report: 
- two messages for beef (internal market price information of live cattle and 
of deadweight cattle); 
- an internal market price message for oil seeds (with the possibilities of 
another message type for this market); 
- a message for the fruit and vegetables market division (concerning internal 
market prices); 
- a message type called AG REX to transmit the monthly FEOGA 
declarations from Member States to the Commission. 
The ultimate objective of IDES is to create a message for each numerical 
datatype sent by the Member States to the Directorate-General of 
Agriculture and used as input for the DG VI informatics applications. 
2.3. FIS (Fast Information System) 
a) Purpose and description 
FIS, the Fast Information System is an electronic journal which provides 
user friendly consultation of agricultural information, for both internal 
Commission use and restricted external use by Member States. It can be 
accessed via the most basic TTY terminal equipment, and has been 
created by the Data Processing Division of the Directorate General for 
Agriculture, DG VI/A/4 with the financial support of CADDIA. 
FIS is fully operational and has enormous potential as a means of 
disseminating all kinds of agricultural information : tables, reports, agenda 
and minutes of management and other Committee meetings, numerical 
annexes of the Official Journal (e.g. MCA's; levies) etc. 
The promotion of FIS by DG VI/A/4 will continue. Data which had 
already been identified (see above) have been included in FIS. For 
example: 
- basic agricultural information (see, for example, AMIS) 
- forestry information 
- ADNS summary data 
- CADDIA progress reports, agendas and references 
- agri-monetary information concerning dollar exchange rates, green rates, 
etc. 
- FEOGA nomenclature 
- the agendas and schedule of the advisory committees. 
Further information will be introduced progressively. 
All this information is available to authorized correspondents in Member 
States and in the other European institutions. It is envisaged that FIS will 
eventually replace many telex transmissions from the Commission to Member 
States. 
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2.4 MCM 
a) Purpose and description 
The MCM application enables Member States to download to PC the 
monetary compensatory amounts and has replaced the now obsolete telex 
transmission of these data to Member States. 
The MCM application is stabilised, and is being widely and regularly used 
by the Member States. Recent expansion in the number of users to 23 has 
confirmed its success. 
As the MCM application is operating successfully at present and is being 
used by all Member States, there are no plans for further development in 
the near future. 
b) Medium term prospects 
The main activities envisaged are, an increase in the number of users in 
the member States, a reinforcement of administrative security measures 
and a progressive reduction in the telex transmissions which duplicate the 
information carried by this application. 
2.5 FBF 
a) Purpose and descriptions 
The FBF Computer system (EAGGF Budget Forecasting) is designed to 
provide the EAGGF division responsible for budget forecasting with a 
number of tools to automate the manual procedures of forecasting and 
preparing the EAGGF budget, which accounts for approximately 60% of 
the Community budget. Given current budget restraints, especially the 
increased restraint on agricultural spending, the division needs a flexible 
system capable of monitoring trends in expenditure during the year and 
comparing them with payments actually made, forecasting budget 
requirements for the year ahead, providing facilities for rapid retrieval and 
simulation during Council negotiations and extrapolating general trends 
over a five-year period. By processing expenditure data from AGREX, 
market and trade data from AMIS and the SOEC data bases, the 
monetary and agrimonetary data from AMIS, the system will be capable of 
establishing: 
- A draft two-year budget, 
- A cyclical monthly revision based on the draft budget, by processing the 
most recent data available, 
- Comparison of the model with outturn expenditure after execution of 
the budget, 
- Simulation of the impact on expenditure of measures being negotiated 
in the Council, 
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- Extrapolation of expenditure over five years for all budget items. 
This also includes adaptation in line with the Council decisions of July 
1987 on the automatic dismantling on the MCMs introduced following a 
realignment of the EMS currencies involved in the exchange-rate 
mechanism. 
b) Medium-term prospects 
The system is operational. 
2.6 AGREX (AGRicultural guarantee fund Expenditures) 
a) Purpose and description 
Community expenditure under the Guarantee section of the EAGGRF 
amounts to approximately 60% of the Community budget. The 
Directorate-General is responsible for managing a computerized monthly 
system for recording payments made and monitoring expenditure declared 
by Member States for the support of agricultural markets. 
In addition, since the European Council of February 1988, there has been 
a need for very strict monitoring of agricultural expenditure, chapter by 
chapter, and the setting up of an alert system should there be any 
deviations from the forecasts. 
The system has links with the budget forecasting system (see FBF) and 
with the agrimonetary applications (see AMIS). 
b) Status and medium-term prospects 
The system is operational. In the medium term, there are plans to supply 
FIS with data contained in the AGREX system. 
2.7 FAUDIT 
a) Purpose and description 
The FAUDIT project (EAGGF Auditing System) under the CADDIA 
programme comprises a feasibility study of the computerization of the 
EAGGF monthly and annual returns, including public storage and their 
verification and communication by the Member States to the Commission 
under Regulations (EEC) 1883/78 and (EEC) 3247/81. 
The aim is to optimise verification by registering basic data on a 
computerized system for category II expenditure and the detection of any 
anomalies. 
The system to be set up will also allow cross-referencing with the data 
contained in the AMIS data base, the AGREX data base and the data 
bases of the Statistical Office of the European Communities for external 
trade or production. 
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b) Status and medium-term prospects 
Functional analysis of the system has been completed. Development of the 
project is currently being financed by non-CADDIA resources. 
In the medium term there are plans to disseminate, by FIS, data contained 
in FAUDIT concerning public storage. 
2.8 APACO/ANA (Actes périodiques agricoles et comités de gestion/Agricultural 
numerical annexes) 
a) Purpose and description 
The purpose of this project is to facilitate the handling of both the textual 
part of the regular periodical acts in the agricultural sector (various 
language versions, editing, systematic changes, etc.) and the numerical 
annexes associated with these acts. This application will have benefits 
within the services of the Commission as well as ensuring the regular, 
reliable and rapid transmission of material to the Publications Office of 
the European Communities for publication in the official Journal and, 
using the international data network, to the Member States. 
b) Medium term prospects 
FIS serves as the basic transmission vehicle for this application, while 
AMIS serves as the basic source of numerical information. It may be 
expected that this system will ultimately replace the existing system of telex 
transmission to Member States of numerical data published in the Official 
Journal. Trials have started and the results are very promising: the 
numerical annexes flow smoothly from the computer where they are 
generated to the telecom center after being validated and signed by the 
competnent services of DG VI. This system not only accelerates the 
procedure but it also provides an elegant way to make these data available 
for consultation by the agricultural correspondents in Member States. 
2.9 SHIFT (System for animal health inspection at frontier posts) 
a) Purpose and description 
SHIFT is based upon directive (CEC) 72/462. Articles 23 and 24 give 
Member States the responsibility to inspect imported meat (and later meat 
products). 
Inspection of a sample covers the following points: 
- the public health certificate and conformity of the fresh meat with the 
stipulations on that certificate, 
- the state of preservation and the presence of dirt and pathogenic agents, 
- verification that slaughter has been carried out in establishments in non-
member countries approved by the Commission for that purpose, 
- verification of transport conditions. 
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This project is an important element in the harmonisation of veterinarian 
procedures in preparation for the Single Market of 1992. 
b) Medium term prospects 
The first phase of SHIFT will be implemented by making some 
information available for consultation by the veterinarian services in 
Member JStates (see FIS). Start up on this first phase has been delayed but 
it is now envisaged for the end of 1990. 
In the meantime, the services of the Commission are studying the scientific 
methods and the administrative and legal measures which form a 
preliminary base for the implementation of the full SHIFT project. 
2.10 SICAMOR-ED (Système d'information et coordination des actions en faveur du 
monde rural - Echange de données) 
a) Purpose and description 
Work has started in DG VI to develop a DP application for the 
management of the Structural Funds. The main objective in the CADDIA 
framework is to automate data transmissions between the Commission and 
Member States (e.g. applications, acknowledgements, summary 
information, etc.) 
The DG VI unit in charge of Information Technology has already visited 
four Member States in the first half year of 1990 (Portugal, Italy, Greece 
and Netherlands) to discuss - inter alia - the feasibility of such an 
approach. Other Member States will be visited in Autumn 1990. 
b) Medium term prospects 
The intermediate conclusion is that there are no major technical obstacles 
but that exact administrative procedures have to be defined as a 
prerequisite for further IT developments. 
2.11 TREE-ED 
a) Purpose and description 
An annual forestry damage survey is executed by Member States. The 
results have to be communicated to the competent services within DG VI. 
A feasibility study of the technical data communication aspects has been 
written. Its conclusions suggest use of a file transfer protocol either by 
exchanging magnetic media or over the international packet switching 
network. 
b) Medium term prospects 
Much help is expected from the installation of the national servers which 
would facilitate this type of batch transmission between the national 
administration and the Commission. 
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2.12 PAP (Prices of Agricultural Products) 
a) Purpose and description 
As part of its task to manage the Common Agricultural Policy, the 
Agriculture Directorate-General manages a large number of prices of 
agricultural products. 
These prices originate from various sources such as communications from 
Member States on Community market prices and imported product prices, 
information agencies in the case of spot prices and forward prices on 
international stock exchanges or Council decisions for institutional prices 
(reference prices, intervention prices, threshold prices and other prices) in 
accordance with the regulations for the Common Agricultural Policy. 
These prices are vital information for decisions made by the Commission 
concerning periodic legislation (levies, aid, refunds intervention purchases) 
but are also used for other purposes such as market monitoring and 
forecasting. 
A large number of these prices are available on the computers of the 
Agriculture Directorate-General upstream and downstream from 
computerized procedures which analyze them in several ways (AMIS 
system). Member States take note of these prices either through the 
Official Journal (institutional prices) or through the various publications of 
the Commission (annual report on agriculture, "Agricultural Markets" 
publication) or in the form of ad hoc written documents submitted to 
management Committees. 
The objective is to make all agricultural prices analyzed by the Agriculture 
Directorate-General available to the administrations of Member States in 
a computerized, systematic manner so that this data can be consulted and 
processed in a timely fashion. 
b) Status and medium-term prospects 
There is currently no systematic channel for communicating the various 
prices to Member States and, in addition to the communication channels 
described under heading 1), many telephone calls or mailings to national 
administrations concerning agricultural prices confirm the interest which 
Member States have in this data. 
The development of a computerized link for disseminating this data to 
national administrations should improve the situation greatly. 
2.13 AIN - ED (National Aid - Data Interchange) 
a) Purpose and description 
The Agriculture Directorate-General manages a computerized system 
which keeps an inventory of national aid notifications. Following the 
resolution of the Council of 2 October 1974 to supervise the strict 
enforcement of the rules of the EEC treaty in terms of Member State aid 
(articles 92 and 93), Member States notify a comprehensive statement of 
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aid measures for agriculture including forecasted amounts and amounts 
actually spent. After updating, the system produces inventories for each 
Member State and each aid category which are sent to Member States for 
information and agreement. 
The objective is to supplement the system by adding a module which allows 
data entry at source of standardized forms and the sending of the 
inventory to the various administrations by the public network, their local 
processing and picking up any changes in them in the system which is set 
up in the Commission. 
r There are plans to possibly install hardware in Member States in order to 
make local processing possible. 
b) Status and medium-term prospects 
The forms are currently mailed to Member States. The inventories are 
produced by computer in list form; there is one inventory per Member 
State and it shows changes since 1974 for each aid category for each 
individual aid. The lists are mailed to Member States where, for Member 
States, they are computerized, retyped before being processed or, for other 
bodies, processed manually. The result of processing is sent back to the 
Commission and coded in the system by the division which is responsible 
for the system. The entire process results in very long lead times. As an 
example, the data for 1974 was not processed until 1987. 
The development of a computerized link should improve the situation in 
the Commission and Member States considerably. 
2.14 ANA (Agricultural Numerical Annexes) 
a) Purpose and description 
The numerical annexes are an integral part of the periodic agricultural acts 
which are published daily, weekly, monthly or occasionally by the 
Commission. 
The numerical annexes represent the numeric part of the acts 
(determination of modification of amounts of levies, aid, refunds) which 
concern all the agricultural products which are dealt with by the Common 
Agricultural Policy. 
Most of the numerical annexes are currently prepared (collection of basic 
information, standardization, calculation of amounts) by the computers in 
the Agriculture Directorate-General and, more particularly, by the AMIS 
system. 
The annexes are circulated to the national administrations by telex as well 
as by the Official Journal where, however, the "numerical annexe" is a 
genuine annexe to the periodic act. 
The aim into circulate the numerical annexes to the administrations of 
Member States electronically in order to create a situation where the 
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national administrations take note of them rapidly and can process this 
data in a timely manner. 
The ANA project has close links with the APACO project (agricultural 
periodic acts part) as well as with the AMIS system. 
b) Status and medium-term prospects 
After being calculated by the SIEMENS computer of DG VI, the 
numerical annexes are currently retyped and sent to Member States in 
telex form. 
The development of a system for the computerized distribution of 
numerical annexes to the national administrations would strengthen the 
links between the Commission and Member States and would offer several 
advantages such as the speed with which reliable data could be obtained 
and a reduction in communication costs. 
2.15 CACTI (Common Agriculture - Customs Transmission of Information) 
a) Purpose and description 
Several measures of the Common Agricultural Policy which are managed 
by the Agriculture Directorate-General in the Commission are enforced in 
Member States by the national customs. 
These essentially involve measures concerning the arrangements for 
exchanges of agricultural products with third countries. 
As an example, the compensatory taxes for imported fresh fruit and 
vegetables are laid down by the Commission, made known to the 
departments in charge in Member States and, subsequently, to national 
customs posts. 
DG XXI integrates the nomenclature of these products in TARIC and, at 
the same time, indicates the type of measure (compensatory tax) 
associated with these codes. If this nomenclature changes or if the scope of 
the measure is widened or reduced, the administrations of customs in 
Member States are informed of this electronically via the TARIC 
interface. It would be desirable for the rates of Community duties which 
the national customs administrations must also enforce to be included in 
this system. This information is available in DG VI. 
The situation is the same for other measures of the CAP. 
In addition, certain measures of a more unusual nature (e.g. the reference 
prices for wine) are managed by DG VI and made known to national 
customs departments, among others, by means of the TARIC interface 
system of DG XXI. 
The aim is to set up a communication channel between DG VI and DG 
XXI on the one hand and the Commission and the national departments 
on the other hand so that the channel can convey this data to Member 
States in good time. 
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Organizing this data, making it available in a form which can be used by 
both the Directorates-General, setting up computerized links with the 
systems which currently manage this data, and, finally, selecting the form, 
procedure and the most convenient computerized channel to make it 
available to Member States is an objective which must precede the aim 
mentioned above. 
b) Status and medium-term prospects 
There are currently no electronic links relating to this information between 
DG VI and DG XXI. 
DG XXI - Member States situation 
At present, ten Member States receive data by electronic means obtained 
from the TARIC data base via the DG XXI computer in Brussels via the 
X.25 network. The Commission has provided the customs administrations 
of the Member States with PCs and several TARIC interface software 
modules. These PCs are linked to the national X.25 network. 
DG VI notifies information to the national departments partly by means of 
the Official Journal and partly by telexes sent to the national departments 
and often uses both methods. 
Most TARIC information is stored in a SIEMENS computer; updates on 
the computer are notified to Member States via the TARIC interface. 
In order to allow flexible management of certain tables (the nomenclature 
and the reference prices for wine, the nomenclature of compensatory 
amounts, the amounts of tariff quotas and ceilings), some information is 
stored in the computer of DG XXI. This information is currently sent to 
the customs administrations of Member States by fax or - if it is too bulky -
by post. An electronic mail facility which will make it possible to send these 
documents from the computer of DG XXI to PCs installed in Member 
States is being studied. 
The development of a computerized link between the two Directorates-
General and Member States resulting in a single information channel from 
the Commission to the national administrations should considerably 
improve the distribution of this data which is shared by the agriculture and 
customs sectors. 
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3. DETAILED PROGRAMME OF THE STATISTICAL SECTOR 
3.1 STATEL project (STAtistiques TELétransmission) 
a) Purpose and description 
The STATEL project is aimed at building an architecture for electronic 
data interchange allowing communication between applications located in 
Member States and EUROSTAT applications (e.g. communications 
between Member States, Member States from and to EUROSTAT). 
The four areas of the project are: 
- Data transport where various technical solutions such as network 
architectures, communication protocols or software are at the 
experimental stage (e.g. X.25 network, X.400, MFTS, FTAM, KERMIT 
etc.); 
- Data representation and the evaluation of associated conversion 
software (cf. UN/EDIFACT) because of the need to standardize the 
statistical data to be exchanged between the partners; 
- Definition of organizational and computerized procedures for the 
automation of interchange, modifying existing applications and ensuring 
that security and confidentiality requirements are taken into account; 
- Definition of a computer architecture detailing the hardware and 
software configurations to be installed by the interchange partners and 
the communications systems to be used (e.g. network, protocol etc.). 
The aims of the STATEL project are to increase the efficiency of data 
interchange between the partner organizations and EUROSTAT by: 
- Reducing data transmission times; 
- Automating interchange procedures, 
- Avoiding the retyping of data. 
Thanks to STATEL, the computerized communication prerequisites to 
allow interconnection of the information systems will be met. 
b) Status and prospects 
The STATEL project has been operational since 1988. The technical 
solutions used allow experimentation in real situations where files are 
transferred between Member States and EUROSTAT. 
All the Member States will now be involved in the pilot teletransmission 
trials. The trials cover several statistical fields such as cyclic industrial 
indicators, indicators for steel and, shortly, meteorology. 
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The transition of solutions adopted to production and expansion in both 
geographical terms and in terms of other fields of statistics, is impeded by 
the following factors: 
- Heterogeneous nature of computer architectures in Member States, 
- Unavailability or inadequate capacity of (X.25) packet switching 
networks and international transit nodes, 
- Non-automation of the sending of data in the data processing 
environment of Member States (cf. MS-DOS), 
- Limits of communication protocols (cf. KERMIT) to authorise reliable, 
secure transfers. 
In order to allow the extension of these techniques to other areas of 
statistics and to other partner bodies, STATEL project work is now 
concentrating on the adaptation of computerized telecommunication 
architectures which allow the start-up of operational production; the 
STATEL project is being associated with initiatives which are in progress 
for this purpose: the national servers projects, the project for trans-
european networks between administrations or computerized 
telecommunication systems which are of general interest. 
3.2 STANORM project (STAtistique NORMalisation) 
a) Purpose and description 
The STANORM project was set up because of the lack of standards for the 
exchange of statistical data. This is partly the result of the wide variety of 
areas of statistics combined with the large number of partners involved. 
The STANORM project is aimed at studying, trying out, improving and 
promoting international standards in the context of computerized 
statistical applications. 
The STANORM project directs its activities towards the following fields: 
- Standards in heterogeneous data processing environments, for example: 
UN/EDIFACT standard, UNTDID standard (United Nations Trade 
Data Interchange Directory), 
- Standards specific to certain fields of application for example: SGML 
(Standard Generalized Mark-up Language) standard, ODA (Office 
Document Architecture) standard, a standard which is currently being 
defined for the format of digital optical disks (e.g. DON, CD-ROM), 
etc. 
- Close coupling between computerized statistical applications: PC-
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b) Status and prospects 
Project activities are organized in two ways: 
- A global approach which analyzes the nature of statistical information 
(data, metadata), its structures (data base, tables etc.) and computer 
data management and storage techniques; 
- A pragmatic approach aimed at studying and experimenting with the use 
of standards for the setting up of interfaces and interconnection 
between the applications of Member States and EUROSTAT relating to 
the collection of information and the dissemination of statistical 
information. 
c) Global approach 
The STANORM project is actively participating in action to promote, co­
ordinate and experiment with international standards (e.g. 
UN/EDIFACT, ASN-1) within various working groups such as the 
Western Europe/EDIFACT Board or, more directly, by encouraging the 
statistical group WE/EB-MD6) which was set up within this structure. 
EUROSTAT chairs the WE/EB-MD6 group and actively participates in 
the various working groups which have been set up within it: 
WG1 Interchange of aggregated statistics: definition of standardized 
messages which can be used for the interchange and dissemination of 
prepared statistical information, 
WG2 Interchange of statistical data derived from existing messages: 
development of statistical messages based on standardized messages 
defined for other purposes (e.g. statistics on international trade based on 
customs messages, statistics on balance of payments drawn up using 
financial messages, etc.), 
WG3 Statistical aspect of code lists: methodology, definition, use and 
circulation of lists of codes or nomenclatures in the field of statistics, 
adaptation of UNTDID to the needs of statistics, 
WG4 New techniques for collecting basic statistical information: 
facilitation of interchange of information between companies and 
administrations, from administrative information to statistical information. 
The activities of the WE/EB-MD6 group are supported by the National 
Statistics Institutes of all the Member States (including EFTA members), 
Ministries, professional organizations, trade facilitation organizations and 
European and international standardization organizations. 
Highlighting the crucial impact of EDI on the work of statisticians, the 
architecture of statistical systems in the run- up to the Single market in 
1992 and their interconnection must be accompanied by appropriate 
measures to co-ordinate and promote work and to support specific actions. 
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In addition, the STANORM project is studying the use of standards 
specific to particular fields of application, for example the SGML 
(Standard Generalized Mark-up Language) standard, the ODA (Office 
Document Architecture) standard for the interchange of statistical 
information for publication and dissemination purposes. The result of 
these studies resulted in the adoption of mark-up languages (cf. SGML) as 
a technique for describing information (text, tables) exchanged between 
publication and dissemination environments (e.g. printers, photo-
typesetting machines, electronic servers etc.) as well as between 
application-oriented and publication environments. 
Standards currently being formulated for the format of digital optical disks 
(e.g. DON, CD-ROM) are also being investigated given the advantages of 
this medium for the storage of large amounts of information on a compact 
and widely used medium. 
d) Pragmatic approach 
As well as the experimental activities already mentioned, this approach 
involves studying techniques for close coupling between statistical 
applications. A special-purpose project (PC-SIMPLE) has been devised to 
access EUROSTAT dissemination data bases from a personal computer 
connected to the computerized telecommunication network. 
PC-SIMPLE is used to define, select, retrieve and structure sets of data to 
be retrieved from data bases. 
The data bases currently involved are CRONOS) and REGIO) but the 
organization of PC-SIMPLE will also make it easy to add new 
EUROSTAT dissemination data bases such as the data base on external 
trade statistics (COMEXT). 
The sets of data are defined and selected by means of a description which 
is generated for each user; this description contains metadata such as the 
structure of the data bases, associated literals, descriptive information. 
The retrieved information is structured in the form of statistical tables 
prior to being transferred to a spreadsheet type program. 
The format currently generated is compatible with SYMPHONY. Other 
formats (LOTUS, DBase, etc.) will be made available to users at a later 
date. 
The user interface has been completely rewritten to make it more user-
friendly (e.g. menus, interactive selection, interactive Help documentation, 
etc.). Reliability has been improved, particularly at the level of 
communication between the PC environment and the dissemination data 
base environment; nevertheless, the poor quality of available 
communication protocols remains a major handicap (e.g. file transfer, 
remote execution of procedures). 
Until such protocols become available, the downloading of data uses non-
standardized communication primitives (cf. KERMIT software) or makes 
use of the specific features of the EUROSTAT computer environment 
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(e.g. ETHERNET local network) which limits advanced uses of the PC-
SIMPLE tool to in-house users. 
Work will now concentrate on: 
- Enhancing reliability and putting the product into production (e.g. 
automatic installation, configuration and documentation update 
procedures), 
- Improving the formalization of data structures and the distribution of 
the PC-SIMPLE application (e.g. pre- standard tentative definition of 
data formats and client/server protocol). 
- Expanding the product by introducing new data bases. 
- Distributing the product in Member States and support for new 
configurations (e.g. UNIX computers). 
3.3 STRINGS project (STatistical Report INtegrated Generation Service 
a) Purpose and description 
The STRINGS project is aimed at building an architecture for the 
production and dissemination of statistical information by means of 
statistical reports. 
Statistical reports may take various forms such as regular or one- off 
publications, pages in electronic bulletin boards or structured downloading 
of information from dissemination data bases. 
A statistical report may contain a structured set of text components 
(analysis, comment, methodological notes), tables (numerical information 
and associated wording), graphics and illustrations. 
The STRINGS project is aimed at facilitating the integration of these 
various components (e.g. text, tables, graphics, illustrations) which appear 
in a publication by adopting and using standardized interfaces. 
Publications produced under STRINGS are produced as independently as 
possible from the final dissemination medium (e.g. hardcopy, electronic 
document, pages in a data communications server, digital optical disks, 
etc.). 
The objectives of the project aim at increasing the efficiency of production, 
improving quality and promoting a wide variety of dissemination media 
and the re-use of information. 
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b) Status and prospects 
The activities under this project are organized in two ways: 
- A global analysis of the production and dissemination of statistical 
reports (conceptual, technical, and organizational aspects), 
- A pragmatic approach based on experimentation with the technical 
solutions now available on the electronic publishing market which can be 
used to validate the options adopted by the global approach. 
The STRINGS project initially set itself the task of studying the state of 
the art and defining a strategic and methodological approach. This initial 
phase resulted in the selection of a software and hardware infrastructure 
which made it possible to continue the work (particularly for the 
integration of tabular components). 
Having defined the approach and selected an infrastructure, STRINGS 
developed a set of tools and masks which make it possible to integrate 
components produced in the EUROSTAT computer environment (chiefly 
text and tabular components) 
Pilot trials which were held highlighted the technical and organizational 
constraints. 
The current state of the STRINGS hardware and software infrastructure 
makes it possible to envisage: 
- Start-up of the production of publications adopting a centralized 
organizational scenario, 
- Start-up of pilot trials for the transmission of publication in an 
electronic format (e.g. SGML) with specialist partners. 
The technical solutions adopted by the STRINGS project (hardware, 
software, standards) in the field of electronic publishing can be used to 
study and test the preconditions for using computerized 
telecommunication tools to exchange statistical reports in a format which 
is information-rich and re-usable by the recipient in the Member States. 
The availability of SGML interfaces at the output of the STRINGS 
infrastructure will enable the first interchanges of electronic reports to be 
envisaged with specialist bodies (e.g. Publications Office of the European 
Communities, printing firms, data-based host computers etc.) and to set up 
pilot trials for the dissemination of information with National Statistics 
Institutes in all the Member States, Ministries, professional organizations, 
printers and data- based host computers which receive EUROSTAT 
publications. 
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3.4 STADIUM project (STAtistical Data Interchange Universal Monitor) 
a) Purpose and description 
The STADIUM project is aimed at setting up a Collection Centre for 
statistical data which, in EUROSTAT, handles the process of receiving 
data regardless of the type of physical medium used (e.g. paper, diskette, 
electronic, magnetic tape) for all interchanges between partner 
organizations in the Member States and EUROSTAT. 
EUROSTAT currently receives statistical data transmitted mainly on 
magnetic tape (approximately 10,000 tapes a year), on diskettes, on paper 
and by data transmission (cf. STATEL project). The volume of data 
received is roughly 3,000 million characters a year of which some 20 
million are on paper and therefore require typing. 
At present, each EUROSTAT section uses its own organizational and 
technical procedures for data collection. These procedures are supported 
by computer environments which are heterogeneous and, quite often, are 
placed under an operating responsibility external to EUROSTAT. 
The STADIUM project handles the monitoring, management and 
archiving of dispatches before routeing them to the target statistical 
applications. 
The aims of the STADIUM project are: 
- To improve the effectiveness of data collection by setting up a 
specialized infrastructure and to rationalize and automate 
communications between the various computer environments (senders 
and receivers), 
- To improve the independence between computer systems by specifying 
clearly defined technical and organizational interfaces, 
- To contribute to the assessment of constraints and instructions 
regarding the confidentiality of statistical data, 
- To rationalize the flow of statistical information, especially by reducing 
redundant flows and using multiple-routeing techniques, 
- To gradually introduce new data transport techniques (e.g. data 
transmission, new media) without forcing any modification of statistical 
applications, 
- To introduce standards covering the content, structure and format of 
data transmitted for collection (cf. UN/EDIFACT, ASN- 1). 
For some of the above items, the STADIUM project will make use of the 
results obtained by the STATEL and STANORM projects. 
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b) Status and prospects 
The STADIUM project has been operational since late 1989. 
It will be put into production in Member States during 1990 for dispatches 
involving data transmission (cf. STATEL). 
For dispatches received in this way, STADIUM completely automates the 
recording and transfer of data to the target applications. 
Providing such a tool and its adoption for all dispatches which make use of 
data transmission is a prerequisite for the growth of electronic transfer of 
data (cf. EDI). 
Emphasis was therefore placed on recent developments in this respect. 
The STADIUM dispatch envelope is written in UN/EDIFACT syntax. 
The operational implementation of STADIUM as a service offered to 
users highlights the importance of organization compared with technology. 
Because of this, the STADIUM project makes it possible to carry out true-
scale experiments on the technical and organizational complexity of future 
EDI (exchange of computerized data) projects. 
Pilot trials which have been completed already make it possible to initiate 
efforts to make partners aware of and train them in EDI techniques 
(communications, protocols, standards, organizations aspects). 
Extensions to the STADIUM project are planned and will relate to: 
- Use of the results of the STANORM project and work carried out by 
the WE/EB-MD6 statistics group, particularly regarding the description 
of data by using standardized messages, 
- Consolidating the architecture by the development of a client/server 
protocol between the sender and recipient environments, 
- Improving the user interface for sending, follow-up of reception, error 
detection and error recovery tasks. 
The level of service offered will depend on the progress made in the 
STANORM (cf. standards and tools which support them) and STATEL 
(cf. high-level communication protocols and telecommunication 
architecture) projects. 
3.5 External trade statistics 
Integrated data base access 
a) Purpose and description 
The processing and dissemination of trade and tariff statistics are 
organized in a number of different data bases (COMEXT, CRONOS, 
STARCOM) and this requires recourse to nomenclature systems which 
are themselves distributed in reference data bases (SABINE, TARIC). 
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The aim of the project is to enable users to have access to data in the most 
convenient way despite the multiplicity of the data bases and the 
complexity of data harmonization processing. 
As a result of the various components being integrated, the tools 
developed enable the processing and administration of external trade 
statistics to be rationalized and facilitate the use of these data in a local 
computerized environment whether in the Commission or outside. 
b) Status and prospects 
In the period under consideration, the main thrust of the work has been on 
the analysis and development of peripheral systems for the inclusion of the 
new goods classification and to extend access capabilities to third-country 
data. 
Statistics on trade imports and tariff data relating to roughly 20 third 
countries are already accessible and it will shortly be possible to relate 
them to Community data. 
The consolidation of the tools for loading and remote downloading of data, 
file transfer between sites and, in particular, in the Geneva delegation for 
the Uruguay Round negotiations has permitted real distribution of 
processing to the great benefit of negotiators and, similarly, the 
development of communication between COMEXT and STARCOM has 
made it possible to satisfy requests from users both inside and outside the 
institutions by minimising redundancy. 
c) Adaptation of data bases following the introduction of new nomenclatures 
c.l) Purpose and description 
The trade and tariff data bases are accessible through goods nomenclature 
codes or countries. The goods nomenclatures, essentially the combined 
nomenclature and the SITC, will in future by supplemented by the NST 
transport nomenclatures and the 11-digit TARIC codes. 
The aims of the current projects are to facilitate access to trade statistics 
whatever the interrogation nomenclature and to facilitate research by 
making available to users tools for consultation based on the use of key 
words and a set of abbreviated texts which are self-explanatory and 
associated with the codes for the various nomenclatures. 
c.2) Status and medium-term prospects 
During this period the NOMACC (NOMenclature ACCess) system for 
storing the texts of nomenclatures in French and English was consolidated 
and is now integrated into the access and updating software for the 
SIENA, SABINE and TARIC data bases. 
In terms of technical development, the system is now completed, and only 
maintenance needs to be planned for the next few years. 
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Expanding the system to include other nomenclatures and the German 
language has progressed well. 
Publications containing the abbreviated self-explanatory texts and showing 
changes in nomenclatures over a period of time are being produced. 
The evolving nature of the nomenclatures has been appreciated so as to 
allow the establishment of chronological series: a new system intended to 
create stable groupings has been developed and offered to users in 
Institutions and the weightings for NIMEXE and SH has been revised on 
the basis of trade exchanges recorded in 1988. 
Planned developments will be aimed at consolidating these interfaces and 
extending them to new nomenclatures while taking into account the impact 
of the new INTRASTAT intra-community interchange for which a 
regulation is being prepared. 
d) Processing and use of statistics 
Two projects fall under this heading: data collection and GSP system. 
d.l) Purpose and description 
The system for recording and preparing external trade statistics will be 
substantially modified after 1992. The new arrangements adopted for 
INTRA-Community exchanges after 1992 are embodied in the 
INTRASTAT proposed regulation. 
On the basis of INTRASTAT specifications and depending on the results 
of studies performed in Member States on the analysis of collection, 
monitoring and correction systems in use in INS, a project has been started 
to promote the use of EDI and EDIFACT standards in intra- and extra-
Community data collection operations. 
Statistics on imports under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) 
are transmitted quarterly by the Member States and are processed by 
programs which have to be adapted to the modifications in the basic 
system each year. The system is designed to allow imports under the GSP 
to be compared with total imports in special trade and sensitive imports 
which come under the DG XXI's GSP monitoring system. 
d.2) Status and medium-term prospects 
The COMEDI (EDI Trade) project was initiated in January 1990 and an 
analysis is in progress to determine the possibilities for EDI and 
EDIFACT standardization of statistical messages in each of the 3 data 
interchange flows (company to INS, customs to INS and INS to 
EUROSTAT). 
The INS/EUROSTAT flow was initially ascertained and resulted in 
revision of the arrangements for the transfer of data which is currently 
recorded on a monthly basis in INS and is the subject of trade statistics. 
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After the adoption of INTRASTAT, the company/INS flow will be the 
second leg of this study which will be based on the results of studies 
performed in 3 countries with the aim of analyzing the possibilities of 
automatic derivation of details relating to intra- Community exchanges and 
company accounting. 
Because the Generalized System of Preferences is likely to be substantially 
revised in the 1992/1996 period, developments have deliberately been 
limited to the implementation of a system organized around a data base 
which has an on-line consultation tool which can be used to compare 
imports made under the generalized preferences and special trade imports. 
This project has benefited from the spin-off from the studies undertaken in 
Member States aimed at improving the system for collecting the GSP 
statistics. 
Finally, a new system for generalized preferences for the period 1992-96 is 
being worked on and this will require the computer system which supports 
these preferences to be adapted and may necessitate a change of direction 
in the project. 
e) Enhancement of trade statistics data bases 
e.l) Purpose and description 
The COMEXT data base contains all the external trade data for the 
Community and the Member States. Its extension to third-country trade is 
planned for the future. In its present form, COMEXT is the SOEC's most-
used data base with more than 200 users in the European Institutions, 
National Statistics Institutions and outside organizations which are treated 
as privileged clients. A copy of the data base is regularly supplied to server 
companies for paid distribution to the public. 
The COMEXT 93 project will redirect the trade data 
collection/processing/dissemination system thanks to a global approach 
which aims at creating an integrated data-based host computer for the 
trade and tariff statistics of the Community and third countries. 
The project is aimed at improving the reliability and user friendliness of 
the system by simplifying the functionalities which are offered; this is made 
possible by improved integration of data from various sources and, above 
all, by the preference given to retrieval/remote downloading tools which 
will make it possible to improve the distribution of processing. 
e.2) Status and medium-term prospects 
Given the new development guidelines, consolidation of SIENA will be 
confined to a number of new functions (access to data expressed in 
accordance with the TARIC code, aggregation system) making it possible 
to ensure the continuity of the service and to meet the most urgent 
requests of users. 
si 
(Annexe) page 33 
At the same time, a feasibility study was started for the implementation of 
COMEXT 93 with the objective of taking into account intra-Community 
trade after 1992 and extension of coverage to third-country and tariff data. 
The development plan was formulated in accordance with the 1993 
schedule. This effort will be maintained for the next two financial years. 
f) Expert system for missing data 
f.l) Purpose and description 
The main aims of the system are: 
1. To compensate for gaps in international trade chronological series, i.e.: 
- To develop and apply modern alternative estimating techniques and 
- To assess the quality of estimates obtained and to select the most 
consistent. 
2. To use experience acquired in the field of expert systems for applications 
in the field of more general statistics. 
The knowledge base has been established using current data originating 
primarily from COMTRADE in Geneva (UN International Trade Data 
Base) and, secondarily, from the IMF and CEPII. 
Other data sources may also be added to the system. 
The system relies on three statistical methods (UNIVARIATE, 
MULTIVARIATE, COUNTERPART Import/Export) in order to 
produce estimates. 
The system is expected to supply a bilateral flow matrix for imports and 
exports on request for a series of specified countries (up to 206 countries) 
for a specified year. 
f.2) Status and medium-term prospects 
Work carried out from July 1989 to June 1990 involved: 
- Installing data for 206 countries and the world aggregate in the expert 
system using COMTRADE data. 
- Verifying and debugging the statistical methods used to calculate 
estimates. 
- Developing a system for the presentation of results (increase in number 
of countries displayed during the production of results). 
Future developments include the creation of geo-economic groups and 
the entry of products or product groups in the expert system. 
(Annexe) page 34 
5.6 Sectoral production and income model for Community agriculture (SPEL) 
a) Purpose and description 
SPEL is a systematically structured and comparable data base for the 
agricultural sectors of the Member States and the Community. The SPEL 
model is designed to carry out the following tasks: 
- Ex-post analysis of sectoral developments (production, productivity and 
income), 
- Short-term and medium-term forecasts of agricultural income trends, 
- Simulation of the effect of alternative agricultural policies, 
- Verification of the consistency of EUROSTAT agricultural statistics. 
b) Status and prospects 
b.l) Status 
The status of the SPEL project can be summarized in the following terms: 
1. Half-yearly update of the data base (Table 8000): in progress 
2. Ex-post analysis of the gross added value of the main agricultural products: 
in progress. 
3. User-friendly interface for interactive use of the SPEL system for 
Commission departments (DG VI, etc.) 
- To facilitate dialogue within the system: in progress - To draw up 
suitable documentation: in progress 
4. Forecasting of development in agricultural income in 1989 with the SFSS 
in November 1989 and June 1990. 
5. Medium-term forecasting and simulation system (MFSS): improvement of 
the components of demand and introduction of comparison between the 
supply and demand components. 
6. Replacement of version A of SPEL by version B. The main differences are 
as follows: 
(i)Greater attention is paid to the situation of animal feedstuffs in the 
sector, 
(ii) Greater attention is paid to the growth of Mediterranean products, 
(iii) The structure of intermediate consumption has been improved: 
- The concept was developed in 1987, 
- The section on "use of animal feedstuffs" is being developed, 
Sj 
(Annexe) page 35 
- Intermediate consumption other than the use of animal feedstuffs is 
being developed. 
7. Simulation for the medium-term version at the request of DG VI: 
- Simulation of the effect of stabilisers on short-term and medium-term 
changes in production, prices and income carried out in Autumn 1989. 
- Simulations for alternative world market price policies. 
8. Integration of Spain and Portugal into the A version of the model. 
b.2) Outlook 
1. Completion of the integration of Spain and Portugal into the SPEL system: 
version A (autumn 1990) and version B (spring 1991). 
2. Completion of version B of the system scheduled for spring 1991. This 
version will replace the current version A. 
3. Completion of the medium-term forecasting and simulation system of the 
SPEL model (MFSS): spring 1991. 
4. Completion of the external trade model for agriculture. 
5. Final preparation of documentation scheduled for spring 1991. 
3.7 Agricultural structure Data Base: EUROFARM 
a) Purpose and description 
The Community survey on agricultural holdings is designed to supply data 
on the Community agricultural structure which is as complete as possible. 
This project should provide EUROSTAT with data on individual farms 
allowing ad hoc analysis to be made for the development and monitoring 
of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The main problem is that of 
guarantees that have to be given to Member States on non-disclosure 
outside EUROSTAT of the individual data covered by statistical 
confidentiality. This involves the Commission in a major investment, the 
results of which will allow it to avoid gaps in the data and the sometimes 
serious delays for Commission departments as well as the high costs 
entailed in requesting specific tabulations from the Member States. 
A direct link will be set up initially with the German Statistics Office in 
Wiesbaden where a data base similar to that developed in EUROSTAT 
will be installed. 
(Annexe) page 36 
b) Status and medium-term prospects 
- Development is nearing completion and all the essential functionalities 
of the system will be operational in October 1990 in time for the 
predicted arrival of the first data. 
- Programs for validating individual data and generating monitoring 
tables have been sent to Member States. 
- The production and processing data base produced with the aid of SAS 
software which will contain individual data is operational on the 
AMDAHL host computer. 
- The dissemination and consultation base (BDT) also runs on the 
AMDAHL computer and is currently being developed using ACUMEN 
software. 
- The statistical table generator is being produced with the aid of the SAS 
software and is nearing completion. It will be used to prepare standard 
BDT tables and the ad hoc tables necessary for data analysis. 
- EUROSTAT is also studying dissemination of the BDT using the 
medium of CD-ROM (compact disk read-only memory). 
- National Statistics Institutes, Ministries of agriculture in Member States 
and Commission departments will have access to BDT data through a 
consultation and manipulation system. 
- BDT data can be downloaded remotely on local sites for processing by 
decentralised users by means of software which is part of their 
application environment. Interfaces taking into account the 
compatibility of the format of the data transferred by means of this 
software will be developed by 1991. 
3.8 RESEAU: European Environment, Agriculture and Town Planning Monitoring 
Network. 
a) Purpose and description 
The Environment policy was taken into account in the Single Act of 
December 1985. EUROSTAT makes Community statistics on the 
environment accessible through the RESEAU data base. 
RESEAU is a data base which brings together several variables held in 
Member States by various ministries or organizations. 
Selection of the variables is a result of the CORINE multi-year 
programme, among other things, which is responsible for defining the 
requirements which will be co-ordinated by EUROSTAT. The data will 
cover varied fields such as ground usage, equipment, environmental 
protection and monitoring, marginal agricultural production, forests, urban 
and suburban areas including socio-economic criteria. H 
(Annexe) page 37 
b) Status and prospects 
The project started in December 1986 with the joint formulation with DG 
XI of a problem statement defining the objectives, requirements and work 
linking the CORINE programme to the RESEAU environment data base 
project. 
The project consists of several phases and the first phase, preliminary 
analysis of the CORINE-RESEAU programme, was approved in July 
1988. The feasibility study report has just been finalised (April 1990) and 
will shortly be submitted to the CORINE-RESEAU programme Steering 
Committee for approval. 
Depending on the results of this study, a third stage involving development 
of the data base will follow. This data base will contain basic and reference 
data, common data and data relating to the environment as well as data 
specific to certain Directorates-General. •J\r 
se 
ANNEX 2 
DG XIII/A12/86 
COMMISSION DES COMMUNAUTES EUROPEENNES 
DG XI. 11 
iaOcu....«u.iir.alio.is, Industries de l ' In format ion 
et Innov.it ion 
CADDIA 
PLAN DE TRAVAIL 
CSC 36/001 
U/8/86 
u* 
4J 
CSC 86/001 
Le présent document contient le plan de travail adopté par le 
Comité Directeur CADDIA lors de sa réunion du 18 février 1986. 
Ce plan est soumis à révision et actualisation constantes sur 
la base de rapports d'étape technique et de recommendations 
préparés par les groupes sectoriels du Comité Directeur CADDIA 
et soumis à celui-ci pour approbation. 
1 - Projets agricoles p. 2 
2 - Projets douaniers p. 6 
3 - Projets statistiques p. 11 
A - Projets communs p. 18 
c* 
PLAN L'E TRAVAIL SECT EUR : AGRI CULTURE 
Titrc? des p r o j e t s 
AMIS 
{ A u r i c u 1 t u r a 1 H a r 1* e t 
Intelligence System) 
** rir 
.- dr 
(FEQGA Budget 
Forecasting) 
FIS 
'. fast Information S y s t c- m) 
f.PACQ 
(Ac tec; Per i od i qucs 
A') r i c o 1 c $ o t C 0 m i •. ('• £ 
• j e g e s t i o n ) No de 
p r o j c-1 
A. 1. 
A.2. 
A. 3. 
A. 0. 1906 
- Travaur. d ' achevcment 
et de consolidation 
- Implantation de 
nouveaux traitements 
relati f 5 a 1'entree 
del'Espagne et du 
Portugal dans la 
C o m m ii n a u 11* (par c x e m p 1 o: 
gest i on des M. C.E. ) 
Dd-but du dGveloppement 
des applications rela­
tives aux provisions 
budgtftaires avec raise en 
service progressive 
Analyse et realisation 
de 1 ' appli cat i en 
- L e s y 51 e m o est 6 q a 1e-
ment operat i or.nel pour 
1 ' e s p a q n o i e t 1 e 
por Luqa i s , on v o i e tlc 
reali sat i on pour 1e 
grec. 
- Installation des nou-
vcl1es ressources 
techniques pour 1n 
bureuatique '.unite* 
centrale). 1787 
Adaptation de la base 
de donneer. AH IS a la 
nomenclature du Systeme 
Harmonist* et la main­
tenance de I'existant. 
Suite et fin de la 
realisation des appli­
cations. 
Hise en exploitation 
finale. 
- Demarrage des tests et 
mi se en CM piei tat ion 
- Les administrations 
dans les Etats Membres 
scront convives a 
participer au dtfmarr a,qe. 
- 1i ai son di rec te du 
nouvcau materiel bureau-
t i q u c a v e c It- service 
I el ex AGIU-C 
- 1i ai son du materiel 
bureautique avec le 
systeme informatique 
conU-nant les donntfes 
numeri ques (AMIS). 1988-93 
Suite (I e s t r a v a u x 
en fonction de 1'evolution 
de la reg1ementat i on 
aqr i cole. 
Les nouveaur. besoins 
seront pris en compte 
dans le cadre du 
systeme AMIS. 
El ar g i ssecient des 
facilites offertes par 
FI 5 en f one t i on de 
1'evolution tccbnologique 
(mi cro-or d i natours, 
protocules de communi­
cation standardises...) 
- Transmission des actes 
periodiques via les 
r eseau>: pub 1 i c s do 
donneer. ver c 1 ' U f f i c p 
des Pub 1i cat i ons. 
- La communication au>: 
Etats Membres des 
donnees numeriques 
pub 1i ees au Journal 
(Jfficiel sera effectuee 
via I ' appli cat i on FIS 
(voir r e f A.3.). 
PLAN DE TRAVAIL SECTEUR : AGRlCULK.iE 
Titre des projets 
SHIFT 
(System for animal 
Health Inspection at 
Frontier posts) Ho de 
projet 
A. 5. 1906 
Phase de négociation 
poli tique au ni veau 
de la Commission. 1907 1908-?: 
Le démarrage d'une étude 
de f ai sabi1i té scr a 
fonction des résultats 
des néuociations. 
IDES 
(Interactive Data Entry 
System) A. L H i s e en opération du 
système avec un groupe 
de correspondants dans 
les Etats Membres. 
(Domaines proposés : 
maladies animales et 
cotations de marchés) Extension du groupe 
de participants et des 
champs d'application. Adaptation des échanges 
d'informations selon 
1 'évolution technologique 
et la réglementation 
agricole. 
DOCED 
Présent> tion des données 
numériques cl textuelles 
sur différents supports 
(micro-fiches, tableurs, 
photocomposit i on...) A. 7 - Transfert de fichiers 
informatiques vers le 
système bureautique 
- Transfert de fichiers 
AMIS vers le tableur 
MULTIPLAN. 
- Mise au point de pro­
cédures de transfert 
généralisées (MFTS) 
entre ordinateurs. Préparation des tableau: 
du rapport annuel sur 
la situation agricole 
dans la Communauté. 
Préparation des 
rapports hebdomadaires 
sur la si tuât i on des 
marchés agricoles. 
Adaptation des procé­
dures concernées par 
1 ' introducti on du 
Système Harmonisé, 
(voir réf. A. 1. ) Suite des travaux selon 
1 'évolution t e c li n o I o g i q u : 
AGP.EX 
(Agr i cul tural E;:pcn-
di tures) A.a, - Achèvement de la pro­
grammation des appli 
cat i ons. 
- Démarrage des appli­
cations chez les 
utilisateurs. Système opérationnel au 
niveau de la Commission 
Etude de l'interface 
avec les Etats Membres. (voir réf. A . d>. ) 
S 
PLAIJ DE TRAVAIL SECTEUR : AGRICULTURE 
T i t r c (Jc-£ pr o j e t s 
FAUIJI I 
(FEOGA Audi t ing System) 
PEG-PAY 
(FEOGA orientation 
P a y m e n t) 
FEC'Rl 
'.FEOGA Or i on t at i on -
instruction de dossiers) 
HARD 
(Infrastructure, lei 6- ' 
* a t i q u e) 
RICA 
I Roseau d ' 1 r. f or mat l ons 
Compl ?.bl ss Agricoles) No de 
p r o j e t 
A. V. 
A.10. 
A. 1 1. 
A .12. 
A. 13. 1906 
- Achèvement de l'analyse 
sur les flux d'informa­
tions. 
- Démarrage du dévelop­
pement des applications. 
- Location de terminaux 
pour le développement 
des appli cat i uns 
mentionnées dans ce 
document. 
- Système opérationnel. 
- Extension du système 
soumi sea 1 appro-
bat i on du comi té de 
gestion RICA. 1987 
- C o n t i n u a t i o r i d e 1 a 
réalisation et m i s v. en 
exploitation progres­
sive. 
Lancement éventuel d'une 
analyse fonctionnelle et dt 
la programmation en fonctic 
des conclusions de l'étude 
d'organisation réalisée 
en 1906 sous la réf. A.IS. 
'FEOORG; 
Lancement éventuel d'une 
analyse fonctionnelle et de 
la programmation en fonctic 
des conclusions de l'étude 
d'organisation réalisée 
en 1906 sous la réf. A.15. 
(FEOORG) 
- Prolongation de la 
location ou achat. 
Installation des program­
mes de vali dat i on dans 
les Etals me m b r e s. 1900-93 
- S y s 1 (- m e o p e r • a I i o n n e 1 . 
- Adaptation des t r a i t c-
ments en fonction des 
changements de la 
reg 1 emenlat i or. ?.qri-
col e. 
? IDEM 
)n 
in 
Prolongation de la loca-
t i on on ach?.t. 
Ilise a jour et consul­
tation des donrtees RICA 
a pa r t i r des E t a t s 
ffl e m b r e s . 
PLAH DE TRAVAIL SECTEUR : AGRICULTURE 
Titre des projets Mo de 
projet 190^ 190 7 190U-9. 
AGEFT 
(Agricultural Electronic 
Fund Transfer) A. 1 «1 Une étude de faisabilité 
sera lancée des que le 
comité du FEOGA aura 
approuvé l'opportunité du 
projet. Ce projet se pré­
sentera comme une évolution 
de 1 ' appli cati on AGREX 
(voir réf. A.8. ) Réalisation éventuelle 
des applications définies 
.\ 
FE00RG 
(FEOGA Orientation -
Etude d'or canisat : on ? A. 15 Etude d'organisation sur 
les flux d'informations 
relatifs a la gestion de 
l'instruction des dossiers 
et leur suivi). 
OS 
PLAN DE TRAVAIL : SECT EUR SERVICE DE L'UNION DOUANIERE 
Titre des projets Mo de 
projet 1906 1907 1930-93 
COORD I NAT ION CD D.O, Activités a caractère 
horizontal du projet 
CD dans son ensemble. Activités A caractère 
horizontal du projet 
CD dans son ensemble. Activités A caractère 
hor i: ont al du projet 
CD dans son ensemble. 
SOUS-SYSTEME POUR LES 
G CHANGES l N'IRA-
COMMUNAUTAIRES D. 1 Echanges Intracom­
munautaires - spéci­
fication des contraintes 
des sous-systèmes intra­
communautaires A moyen 
et A lonq terme, eu 
égard A l'obligation 
de créer un marché 
i n ter i eur d'ici le 
31 décembre 1992. Extension du domaine 
du commerce intra-com­
munautaire proprement 
dit aux problèmes posés 
par l'application de la' 
TVA, aux statistiques 
intra-communautai res 
et au contr 61c des 
marchandises soumises 
aux droits d'accises, 
ou qui ne se trouvent 
pas en libre circulation Définition des besoins 
des utilisateurs 
Etude de foi sab i1i t è 
des différents systèmes 
envi saqes. 
Début de réalisation en 
fonction des options 
p r ises. 
SOUS-SYSTEME IMPORTATION D.2 
SOUS-SYSTEME EXPORTATION D.3 Début des travaux 
préparatoires relatifs 5 
la déf i ni t i on des 
besoins des usagers 
pour les fonctions et les 
sor vie es A inclure dans 
lessso us-système s impor­
tation et exportation, 
l'p'" travaux iliiivtMil. etrr 
en l r (.'|ir i s sel un une li-ite 
de priorités A définir au 
sein du comité CD. Suite de- ces t r a v a u : 
ON 
V/o 
PLAN DE TRAVAIL SECTEUR SERVICE DE L'UMIOM DOUANIERE 
Titre des projets Ho de 
projet 1906 1907 1900-93 
PROJETS PILOTES D.'l Projets pilotes - accords 
et réalisation d'un 
certain nombre de projets 
d'échanges de données 
visant A tester et <i expé­
rimenter des notions 
utilisables à plus long 
terme. Il doit s'agir de 
projets concernant les 
échanges de données entre 
la Commission et les Etats 
membres, entre deux Etats 
membres,et entre les milieux 
commerciaux et l'administra­
tion douanière d'un Etat 
membre. Suite des essais 5ui te des cssa i s 
Conclusions et propo­
sitions sur la mise en 
pi at (.• il t V.V'J l l'iuer. 
d é f i n i t i f s 
INTERFACE AVEC DES 
AGENTS ECONOMIQUES D. Interfaces avec les 
milieu:: commerciaux 
1. Elaborer l'exposé des 
besoins des usagers pour 
les interfaces avec 
les milieux commerciaux. 
2. Définir des normes en 
vue de la mise au point 
d'interfaces communes. 
3. Convenir des caractéris­
tiques techniques des 
interfaces qui seront 
mi ses en place. Début de la mise en oeuv 
O* 
PLAN DE TRAVAIL SEC 1 EUR 
Titre des projets SERVICE DE L'UK .N DOUANIERE 
No de 
projet 1906 1907 1900-93 
SYSTEME L'E LA COMMIS­
SION - SYSTEME DE 
GESTION TARIC D.6.6.1. TARIC - achèvement du 
chargement de la base 
de données TARIC dans 
les différentes 1 anques 
de la Communauté, autres 
que 1'espagnol et 1e 
por tuga i s. 
- Envoi des bandes magné-
t i ques aux E.M. pour 1 a 
mise en place de leur 
système propre. Modifications et mises A Suivi du fonctionnement 
jour suite A l'étude et à opérationnel de TARIC 
la réalisation de l'inter­
face TARIC 
Chargement éventuel 
des bases de données 
espagnoles et portugaises. 
SYSTEME DE LA COMMIS­
SION - INTERFACE TARIC D.6.6.2 Achèvement de la concep­
tion et accord.sur les 
spécifications avec les 
Etats membres. 
Spécifications des don­
nées A ajouter A 
l'actuelle base de données. Etude de l'organisation 
et des méthodes requises 
pour la gestion de TARIC 
et pour la mise en place 
d'un service 
d ' "actuali sat i on". Début de la réalisation 
REPERTOIRE CHIMIQUE D.6.7. -Extension A 30000 des 
dénominations couvertes 
par la base do données. 
-Extension du système au 
grec (toutes les langues 
communautaires sont, cou­
vertes) . Début des transferts et 
intégration avec la base 
de données EIMECS. (1iste 
des produits chimiques 
existants en 1901). Suite et achèvement des 
t r a v a u x 
SYSTEME D' INFORMAT ION 
DOUANIER - PHASE 1 -D..6.0.1. Etude de faisabilité du 
nouveau système de ges­
tion du perfectionnement 
«>.c t i f et mise au point 
du système. Fin de la mise au point 
du système. Accès en ligne à partir 
des E.M. 
PLAN DE TRAVAIL SECIEUR : SERVICE DE L'UNION DOUANIERE 
- Titre des projets Mo de 1906 1907 1909-93 
projet 
SYSTEME D'INFORMA!ION D.6.0.2. Etude de faisabilité du Mise au point du système. Accès en ligne A partir 
DOUANIER - PHASE II - nouveau système informa- des E.H. 
tisé relatif aux déci­
sions de classement 
I. art f a i r c:. 
SYSTEME D'INFORMATION D.6.0.3. Suivi de l'avancement Lié aux travaux IIISI5 
DOUANIER - ECHANGE DES des travaux sur les diffé-
MES5AGES - • rents types de services de 
traitement de messages pour 
communiquer avec les admini­
strations des Etats membres, 
y compris un système de cour­
rier électronique. (Une partie 
de ces installations sera 
mise en place par la 
Commission dans le cadre du 
progr afliine i NS I S) . 
SYSTEME û"IHFORHiiTI UN D.6.0.1. - Etude des méthodes d'accès - Développement et Suite des travaux 
DOUANIER - DIVERS - standardisé aux bases de mise en place de 
données douanières. (Rèper- l'interface. 
toirc chimique, Liste des 
bureaux des douanes, etc.) 
-Etude d'autres domaines 
pouvant éventuellement 
être couverts par des 
systèmes d'information {|S 
auloma t i ses. 
^ 
10. 
PLAN DE TRAVAIL SECTEUR SERVICE DE L'UNION DOUANIERE 
Titre des projets Mo de 
projet 1906 1907 1900-93 
SYSTEME D'INFORMATION SUR D.6.9. 
LES IRREGULARITES Poursuite des contacts 
avec les E.M. en vue 
d'analyser les données 
nécessaires A la lutte 
contre la fraude dans le 
but de renforcer l'assis­
tance mutuel 1e. Suite des travaux 
et études sur la création 
éventuelle de bases 
de données comportant des 
facilités de consultation 
pour les Etats membres 
(assistance mutuelle et 
contref açon). 
STANDARDS D'ECHANGES DE 
DONNEES D.7. Normes - mise au point 
finale des règles de 
syntaxe et du répertoire 
des éléments d'informa­
tions selon les normes 
des Nations Unies. Publication des normes 
dans une mesure arrêtée 
par la Commi ssi on. 
Mise au point finale 
des codes et préparation 
des structures de messages 
pour le sous-système relatif 
aux échanges intracommunau­
taires. (Travail A entre­
prendre en collaboration 
étroite avec l'équipe DAU, 
la coordination CADDIA.. la 
CEE Genève, le CCD. et 
ODETTE). Application aux divers 
systèmes des normes 
arrêtées. 
PROBLEMES JURIC'IC'UES 
CONTRAINTES D.n. -Promouvoir des études sur Introduction éventuelle 
les problèmes juridiques. dans la législation 
-Suivi des études déjà 
entrepr i ses dans 1e 
cadre de CELIM (Col­
loque des 17 et 
18/3/06). douanière communautaire, 
des règles juridiques 
couvrant les différents 
domaines de l'échange 
électronique des données. Suite d c- s t r a v a u >: 
-AJ 
PLAN DE TRAVAIL SECTEUR : STATISTIQUES 
12. 
Titre des projets ••IO. ae 
Projet 1986 1987 1988-
Collcctc dc3 
Statistiques. 
EM: Système de collecte 
des statistiques de 
- Commerce spécial intra 
et extro jusqu'à 1792 
- Importations en prove­
nance de pays tiers 
(commerce spécial) 
à partir de 1993 
- SPG S.2.1. Analyse des relations avec 
les déclarants des statis­
tiques (Service de douane et 
agents économiques). Spécifi­
cation des fonctions statis­
tiques et analyse de l'impact 
de la télétransmission prévu 
par le CD projet SUD et 
autres. Poursuite de l'analyse et Intégration successive des 
l'implementation des systèmes nouvelles technologies. 
Statistiques. A noter: à partir- de 1993 
application d'un nouveau 
système de collecte statis­
tique indépendant de la 
douane, pour le commerce 
entre les Etats membres et 
éventuellement pour les ex­
portât ion:".. 
Traitcncnt et exploi­
tation des statistiques 
a) en banque de 
données 
b) confidentialité 
c) cross-check 
EM: Systèmes de traite­
ment et d'élaboration 
des statistiques de 
- commerce spécial 
- SPG 2.1 Etude des possibilités de 
reconversion des traitement 
actuels en traitement par 
base de données avec harmo­
nisation des méthodes de 
- correction rétroactive 
- confidentialité 
*- concordance avec les sys­
tèmes surveillance 
notamment des SPC Analyse des études et elabo­
rations des propositions 
d1 implé.'ncntat ion Intégration successive des 
nouvelles technologies. 
A noter: à partir de 1995 
application d'un nouveau 
système «Je collecte statis­
tique indépendant de la 
douane, pour le commerce 
entre les Etats membres cl 
éventuellement pour les ex­
portations. 
Introduction du 
systcae harmonisé (SU) 
Normalisation 
EH: Statistiques de 
commerce extérieur, 
tarifs OSCE: 
- Manque: SAU1NE, OPT 
COMEXT, CRONOS 
- Toutes elaborations 
de commerce extérieur 
- Banque GATTLUX .2.1. Analyse des fonctions affec- Implementation des interface: 
.2.3. tées par l'introduction du SU 
(*) Développements des stalis-
Analyse et programmation d'un tiques • tari f ai re's sur la 
interface avec TARIC (pour 
les CM - douane voir projets 
SUD) 
Elargissement de la banque 
GATTLUX pour permettre la 
consultation des relations 
SH-NIMEXE de 1986 à 1988 base de la nomenclature SM 
(interfaces TAKIC-COMEXÏ) Développements 
de l'impact du 
sur la nomencta 
dans le commerc 
éventuellement 
exporla t ions tenan' c 
livre bl 
turc vi ti 
c intra 
dans les ompl c 
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PLAN DE TRAVAIL SECTEUR : STATISTIQUES 
Titre des projets •\:o. de 
Projet 1986 1987 1988-93 
Télétrannraiss ion -S.-1.1. - Mise en place de l'inf ra­
des données statistiques structure de télétrans­
mission auprès d'un sous-
ensemble restreint de Pays 
Membres - Extension de l'utilisation - Extension de l'utilisation 
de la télétransmission à de la télétransmission à 
d'autres classes de données tous les Pays Membres 
- Utilisation de la tété-
transmission pour la 
collecte de certaines 
classes de données 
Mornnli sa-t ion et 
distribution des 
rapports statistiques S. 1.2. Etude de faisabilité du 
projet. Début de la phase de 
construct ion. Développement complet des 
fonctionnalités de STRINGS 
et extension de son utilisa­
tion à tout l'EUROSTAT 
Analyse des progiciels et Mise en place du noyau de 
standards existants et con- l'infrastructure STRINGS et 
frontation avec les objectifs modernisation de l'atelier 
prévus pour le projet. graphique existant. Introduction des nouvelles 
technologies dans la distri­
bution de l'information 
(disques optiques, etc.). 
^.. 
Central de collecte 
(STADIUM) S. 1 . A Etude de faisabilité du 
système 
- Etude de faisabilité pour 
l'application de la norme 
UNTDI - Construction et mise en 
oeuvre du noyau principal 
(réception, stockage et 
dispatching des envois) 
auprès de l'EUROSTAT 
- Répercussion de la norme 
UNID1 dans STADIUM - Développement et mise en 
oeuvre du système complet 
à l'EUROSTAT 
- Construction et mise en 
place des parties fonction­
nant auprès des Pays 
Membres 
- Utilisation de la norme (V\ 
UNTDI de la part des Pays ^ 
Membres 
PLAN DE TRAVAIL SECTEUR : STATISTIQUES 
Titre des projet: No. de 
Pro jet 1986 1987 
Amélioration et vatori- S.2.1. 
sation des bases de 
données statistiques 
- appui statistique au 
service fraude Fcoga 
COMEXT, DPT 
- contrôle statistique 
de la qualité des 
données 
COMEXT, DPT 
- adéquation des nomen­
clatures dans des 
secteurs clefs 
COMEXT, DPT 
- systèmes d'alerte 
statistique 
COMEXT, OPT 
- disque optique et 
di f fusion 
COMEXT, DPT S. 2. '.. 
(*) 
Etude de faisabilité Projet pilote 
Secteur haute technologie . Autres secteurs clefs 
Etude de faisabilité Projet pilolc 
Essais technique: 1988-93 
iystème de production 
Autres secteurs clefs 
Sy s t eme opé r a t ,i uni ie l 
Projets pilotes 
(*) Cette activité concerne deux lignes budgétaire: 
-a o 
PLAN DE TRAVAIL SECTEUR : STATISTIQUES H. 
Titre des projets ;,'o. ce' 
Projet 1986 1987 1988-93 
Système d'interrogation 
par oots-clefs 
OSCE: Danques de diffu­
sion COMEXT, CRONOS, 
SAO I f^E. 
Etats membres: Gestion 
des nomenclatures de 
commerce extérieur. 2.2 Implementation d'un prototype Recherche de l'automatisation Maintenance du system 
simple, analyse du système et du système des textes auto­
tests de logiciels. Installa- explicatifs. Connexion à des 
tioh du logiciel choisi. systèmes externes. 
Programmation de t'implemen­
tation. Elaborations des 
textes légaux et abrégés. 
Accès intégré aux 
bases de données 
05CE: Ûanqucs de pré- • 
traitement CEE, CONEXT-
CUROSTAT, CRONOS, 
SAD I NE .2.3. Installation des systèmes 
périphériques (NCR-TOV/ER, PC-
M2A et traitement du texte). 
Analyse des fonctions et de 
leur répartition sur les dif­
férents niveaux d'accès. 
Programmation de I'implemen­
tation. Poursuite de la programmation Intégration progressive de 
Implementation des sytèmes ta nouvelle technologie 
Système expert 
Amélioration et valori­
sation des bases de 
données statistiques 
COMEXT, CRONOS, DPT S.2.'.. Projet pilote (maquette/ 
faisabilité. Affinement - prototype Système de production 
-U 
-> 
PLAN DE TRAVAIL SECTEUR : STATISTIQUES 
Titre des projets No. de 
Pro jr»l; 1986 1987 1988-93 
Danquc de donnée: 
forestières S.3.1 Sélection des données 
forestières nécessaires et 
harmonisation de celles-ci 
(DG VI et O.S.CE.). 
Etude de l'outil approprié 
pour cartographie et inven­
taire au niveau régional. Multiplication de l'outil 
choisi et centralisation des 
données 
Création d'une banque de 
données forestières 
Analyse et développement des 
modalités de transmission de 
ces données 
Accession du public 
Analyse en vue de l'inven­
taire et de la cartographie Suite de l'action entreprise 
Mise en place par télédétec­
tion d'une surveillance 
chiffrée : 
-de l'étal sanitaire des 
forêts 
- du développement de mala­
dies ou dégâts suite à 
pollution, tempêtes ou 
incend i es 
.- de l'évolution dvs 
structures 
EUROFARM S.3.2. Etude de faisabilité du 
projet; Début de la construction du Démarrage du système; 
système; test sur l'enquête de 1957; 
Analyse de la situation dans Analyse des enquêtes "vin" et Le système scrc\ pleinement 
trois Etats membres tests 
(D,IT,UK) en matière d'har­
monisation, de contrôle et 
de transfert des données 
individuelles; "fruits" afin de réaliser opérationnel pour l'enquête 
leur intégration dans la base de 1989/9U. 
de données tabulaires; 
Analyses des modalités de 
liaison entre l'EUHOSTAT cl 
Analyse de la base de données les pays membres, 
existant en vue de son inté­
gration dans te projet. -*1 
16. 
PLAN OC TRAVAIL SECTEUR : STATISTIQUES 
Titre du projet No. de 1986 1987 1988-93 
Projet ^^^ 
SPEL S.3.3. Implementation de la version Autres développements futurs 
(Modèle de la produc- existante du modèle du modèle prenant en consi-
tion et du revenu du deration les produits agri-
secteur agricole Adaptation de l'interface coles méditerranéens. Implé-
communautaire) utilisateur (logiciel con- mentation de cette version 
viviat pour l'interrogation du modèle 
des données de flux) 
Application du modèle 
- mise à jour de la base de 
données 
- prévisions à court terme S 
- validation de la méthode 
prévi sionnelle 
- simulation des effets de 
mesures politiques sur le 
revenu 
Vérification de ta cohé­
rence des différentes B 
séries chronologiques 
Adaptation des procédures 
de transfert des données H 
dans le cas de changements 
méthodologiques ou 
techniques 
Intégration complète de Intégration complète du 
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17 
PLAN DE TRAVAIL SECTEUR STATISTIQUES 
Titre du projet •so. oe 
Prniet 1986 19.87 1788-93 
AGRONET S.3.U. Harmonisation des données; Equipements, transferts; Entretien, gestion, consoli 
Protocote EUROSTAT/Uégions Intégration au système télé- dation; 
Prévisions des récoltes: 'de grandes cultures; transmission de la Commission relations AGROMET/RESEAU; 
superficies, rendements, Choix des régions; Accès; nouvcltc(s) production(s); 
productions. adaptation du modèle Eurostat Analyse du suivi de l'infor- observations cxtra-CE. 
ma t i on 
RESEAU 
Réseau Européen de 
surveil lance de l'En­
vironnement, de l'Agri­
culture et de l'Urbani­
sât ion S.3.5. Examen, sélection et harmoni- Equipements pour la Centrali- Suivi du développement d.. 
sat ion des données avec pro­
gramme COfUNE; 
Concept général du support 
et du traitement des données 
pour inventaire et carto­
graphie; 
Etude de faisabilité. sation des données; 
Accès public; 
Analyse fonctionnelle pour 
inventaire et cartographie. RESEAU avec COPINE; 
Indicateurs de surveillance; 
Agriculture et Environnement 
(télédetect ion). 
LAM OE TRAVAIL SECTEUR Coordination C A I) U 1 A (Projets Communs) 
litre des projets 
DESOIMS DE NORMALISATION No dc-
projet 
PI 1906 
- rédaction d'un ensemble 
de manuels de vulgarisa­
tion de 1'UNTDI destinés à 
l ' expl i quer , A le f ai re­
connaître et A l'implémente 
- Traduction de ces 
manuels ainsi que des 
ouvrages de référence dans 
toutes les langues com­
munautaires. 
Suivi des relations avec 
L'UNECE, 1'ISO, le CEN-
CENELEC sur les problèmes 
de normali sat i on. 
• • 1907 
IDEM 
r. 
IDEM 
IDEM 
Sélection des options pro 
posées par 1'UNTDI en fqnc-
tion des applications envi­
sagées. 
Constitution d'un thesaurus 
multilingue sur l'échange 
des données. 
Diffusion de ces informa-
mations auprès des instan­
ces intéressées. 1900-93 
IDEM 
IDEM 
IDEM 
IDEM 
IDEM 
IDEM 
PLAN DE TRAVAIL SECTEUR : Coordination CADDIA (Projets Communs 
Ti tre des pro jets 
COORDINATION DE LA 
NORMALISATION Mo de 
p r o j e t 
1 I JL 
* 1906 
- Mise en p1 ace d'un 
groupe de coordination 
UMTDl regroupant les ser­
vices de la Commission. 
Ce groupe est chargé de 
la coordination du tous 
les travaux de mise en 
oeuvre de 1'UNTDI pour 
les applications de la 
Commi ssion. 
Par application, défini­
tion des messages, segments 
et éléments de données. 
Stockage des informations 
utilisées par les projets 
CADDIA et les projets 
d'autres o r y a ni s a t i o n s dan; 
une base de données. '.CANDY 
Participation au:: groupes < 
travai1 d ' or g an i sat i ons 
externes A la Commission qi 
traite lit de la normal isatic 
messages (ODETTE, COMPRIT S ; 1907 
Définir les procédures 
pour 1 ' adopt i on et la 
publication de normes 
pour la syntaxe, les 
éléments de données 
les messages et les 
segments. 
IDEM 
IDEM) 
le IDEM 
u 
m des IDEH 
) 19 0 0-93 
Publication de n o r .:. •:• 
relatives A T e c h a n g e d e 
donnecs. 
- Support A la :«i sc en 
place des application' 
d'6chanqcs de donnecs en 
cc qui conci."rnc les nur-nc. 
IDEM 
IDEM 
IDEM 
IDEM 
20. 
PLAN DE TRAVAIL SECTEUR 
Titre des projets Coordination CADDIA (Projets Communs) 
1986 No de 
projet 1937 1936-7. 
VALIDAI ION DE L'INFRA- P.3 
S1PUCTURE 
TESTS DE VALIDATION P.3.1. - Tests des composants de 
l'infrastructure et leur 
interconnexion sur les 
équipements de la Commis­
si on. 
Les tests de validation 
ont pour object i f s de 
sélectionner certains pro 
duits qui seront utilisés 
sur des sites opérationnels 
- Spécifications d'outils 
intégrés pour l'échange de 
données. Sui te- des travaux 
en fonction de l'évolution 
technologique et de l'adop-
des standards c-n matière de 
télécommunication et 
d'échanges de données. 
IDEM IDEM 
«L> 
22. 
PLAN DE TRAVAIL SECTEUR Coordination CADDIA (Projets Communs) 
Titre des projets Node 
projet 1906 1907 190G-93 
MISE EN PLACE DE L' INFRA- P.5. 
STRUCTURE TELEMATIQUE - Analyser les flux 
de données et quantifier 
les fréquences, les vo­
lumes et les pointes ho­
raires. 
- Identifier et évaluer 
les protocoles et ser­
vices proposés ou plani-Evaluer les besoins en Installation progressive-
infrastructure et les de l'infrastructure a p -
5oumettre a l'application propriée aux besoins des 
dans les Etats Membres. 
- Relation avec les PTT 
nationaux pour l'utili­
sation des services télé 
fiés par les constructeurs matiques disponibles 
et les administrations - Définition de scénarios 
nationales des PTT. pour la réalisation de 
- Etablir une liste des l'infrastructure. 
ordinateurs et protocoles 
utilisés ou prévus dans les 
Etats Membres. différents secteurs, 
sel on un pianni ng de 
mise en oeuvre a adopter 
par le C.D.C. 
IDEM 
o4 
21 
PLAN DE TRAVAIL SECTEUR : Coordination CADDIA (Projets Communs) 
Titre des projets 
VALIDATION DE L'INFRA­
STRUCTURE 
SUPPORT PRUJETS 
PIL0IL3 
METH0D0L0G1E No de 
p r o j e t 
P. 3 • 
P. 3. ?. 
> 
P. '1. 1906 
- Négociations et démar­
rage avec les secteurs 
concernés de projets 
pilotes d ' é c li a n g e s de 
données. 
- Les Etats Membres sont 
conviés A participer A 
c e v» p r u j e t s pilotes, 
d'échanges de données. 
- L'équipe de coordination 
CADDIA assurera tout le 
support nécessaire aux 
responsables de projets 
sec tor i els 
- Suivi de l'ensemble 
des projets subventionnés 
par le programme CADDIA 
- Une méthodologie appro­
priée A l'interconnexion 
de systèmes informatiques 
sera définie et proposée 
aux secteurs concernés a 
1 a Commi ssi on. 1907 
Spécification d'un ser­
vice de tests de confor­
mité pour la validation 
de logiciels en fonction 
des standards inter­
na t i unaux . 
Poursuite des projets, 
pilotes et extension 
progressive de l'utili­
sation de l'échange 
automatisé de données 
Evaluation des résultats 
des projets pilotes et 
répercussion sur les 
scénarios d ' i n f r a s c t r u c-
turc télématiques, 
(voir - P.5.) 
- Application des méthodes 
A l'ensemble des projets 
CADDIA selon les décisions 
du C.D.C. 1908-93 
Utilisation d o s s c r v i c •:•; 
d e test d e c o n f o r m i t e 
pour v a 1ld e r 1 'infra-. 
structure t e 1 e .-a a t i q u c . 
IDEM 
S u l v i m c I h o d o 1 o q l q u c 
èo 
ANNEX 3 
ACRONYMES •SI 
CADDIA 
DG XIII 
DGXXI 
DGVI 
OSCE/SOEC 
EUROSTAT 
DG IX-I 
PTF 
CDC/CSC 
GPIC Coopération dans l'Automatisation des Données et de la 
Documentation dans les Importations/exportations et 
l'Agriculture / Cooperation in Automation of Data and 
Documentation for Imports/exports and Agriculture 
Direction Générale pour les Télécommunications, Industries 
de l'information et Innovatio / Directorate-General for 
Telecommunications, Information Industries and Innovation 
Direction Générale pour l'Union douanière et la Fiscalité 
Indirecte / Directorate-General for Customs Union and Indirect 
Taxation 
Direction Générale pour l'Agriculture / Directorate-General for 
Agriculture 
Office Statistique des Communautés européennes / Statistical 
Office of the European Communities 
Direction Informatique (pour la Commission) / Directorate for 
Informatics (in the Commission) 
Preliminary Task Force (for CADDIA.) / Task Force Préliminaire 
pour CADDIA) 
Comité Directeur CADDIA / CADDIA Steering Committee 
Groupe Politique Inter-service CADDIA / CADDIA Policy 
Interservice Group 
Messages standardisation / Standardisation des messages 
EDIFACT 
(UN)TDED 
UN-ECE/WP4 
GTDI 
AELE/EFTA 
ISO 
UNTDI 
UNCITRAL 
ANSI Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce 
and Transport (DIS 9735) (new syntax rules) 
(United Nations) Trade Data Elements Directory (ISO 7372) 
United Nations - Economic Commission for Europe Working 
Party 4 
Guidelines for Trade Data Interchange (old syntax rules) 
Association Européenne de Libre Echange / European Free 
Trade Association 
International Standards Organisation 
United Nations Trade Data Interchange 
United Nations Council for International TRAde Legislation 
American National Standards Institute 
COMPROS 
SITPRO 
TEDIS 
ODETTE 
CEFIC 
EDIFICE 
COST 
DEDIST 
DISH 
RESEAU 
CORINE 
SGML 
PAO/OAP Community Trade Facilitation Organisations / Organisations 
communautaires pour la facilitation du commerce 
UK Trade facilitation organisation 
Trade Electronic Data Interchange Systems 
Organisation for Data Exchange by TeleTransmission in 
Europe 
Conseil Européen des Fédérations de l'Industrie Chimique 
Electronic Data Interchange Forum for companies with Interest 
in Computing and Electronics 
Cooperation in the fields of Scientific and Technical research 
Data Elements Distribution in Trade (Nordic countries project) 
Data Interchange for SHipping (UK project) 
Réseau Européen de Surveillance de l'Environnement, de 
l'Agriculture et de l'Urbanisation 
Projet expérimental pour la collecte, la coordination et la mise 
en cohérence des informations sur l'état de l'environnement et des 
ressources naturelles 
Standard Generalised Mark-up Language 
Publication Assistée par Ordinateur / Computer Assisted 
Publication Si 
Agricultural sector / Secteur agricole 
PAP 
AMIS 
FEOGA/EAGGF 
OCM 
IDES 
PAC/CAP 
MCE/MCA 
MCM/MCA 
FIS Prices of Agricultural Products 
Agricultural Market Intelligence System 
Fonds Européen d'Orientation et de Garantie Agricole / 
European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund 
Organisations Communes de Marché 
Interactive Data Entry System 
Politique Agricole Commune / Common Agricultural Policy 
Mécanisme Complémentaire aux Echanges / Complementary 
Trade Mecanism 
Montants Compensatoires Monétaires / Monetary 
Complementary Amounts 
Fast Information System 
APACO 
ARPS 
FBF 
AGREX 
SHIFT 
DOCED 
FAUDIT 
RICA 
AGEFT 
FEOPAY 
FEORI 
SICAMOR-ED 
AIN-ED 
CACTI 
ANA Actes Périodiques Agricoles et COmités de gestion 
Agricultural Report Production System 
Feoga Budget Forecasting 
AGricultural guarantee fund Expenditures 
Systems for animal Health Inspection at Frontier posts 
Documentation EDition 
Feoga AUDITing System 
Réseau d'Informations Comptables Agricoles 
AGricultural Electronic Fund Transfer 
FEga Orientation PAYment 
FEoga ORIentation Instructions de dossiers 
Système d'information et coordination des actions en 
faveur du Monde rural - Exchange Data 
Aides nationales - Echanges de données 
Common Agriculture - Customs Transmission of Information 
Agricultural Numerical Annexes S3 
Telecom 
OSI 
FTAM 
TTX 
TLX 
MFTS 
PAD 
ASN1 Open Systems Interconnection 
File Transfer Access and Management (DIS 8571) 
Télétex transmission 
Telex transmission 
Multilateral File Transfer System (C.E.C) 
Packet Assembly and Disassembly (X28) 
Abstract Syntax Notation 1 
ty 
Customs sector / Secteur douanier 
CD project Coordinated Development Project 
TARif Intégré Communautaire 
System Customs Enforcement NeTwork TARIC 
SCENT 
SPG/GSP 
DAU/SAD 
CUSDEC 
CUSRES Système de Préférences Généralisé / Generalised System 
of Preferences 
Document Administratif Unique / Single Administratif Document 
CUStom DEClaration 
CUStom RESponse 
Statistical sector / Secteur statistiques 
INS 
STATEL 
STANORM 
STRINGS 
SPEL 
STADIUM 
EUROFARM 
COMEXT 
COMEDI Institut National de Statistiques 
STAtistiques TELetransmission 
STAtistiques NORmalisation 
STatistical Report INtegrated Generation Service 
Sektorales Produktions und Einkommens modell der 
Landwirtschaft 
STatistical Data Interchange Universal Monitor 
Base de données des structures agricoles 
COMmerce EXTérieur 
COMmerce EDI 

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