Towards an IT infrastructure for compliance management by data interoperability : The changing role of authorities
conference paper
Since 9/11, the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) was an initiative to increase container security. Through the Entry Summary Declaration (ENS), authorities require shipping lines to timely submit data to the first port of call in the EC.. However, an ENS contains insufficient data for proper risk analysis. This paper presents an IT infrastructure to capture so-called upstream data that allows customs to match delivery - with container data. It proposes Semantic Web technology for secure, global trade, with a gradual migration strategy of all stakeholders. In its final stage, only export and import declaration based on commercial documents is required; all other data can be captured by various authorities for risk analysis. Transport security will increase, whilst the administrative burden will decrease.
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523548
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Paper presented at the 6th European Conference on ICT for Transport Logistics - ECITL 2013 , 23-25 October 2013, Zaragoza, Spain