TRACES Toolkit.
TRACES newsletter. BTSF. BTSF Videos - TRACES in Member States. Wiki on TRACES. TRACES, or Trade Control and Expert System, is a web-based veterinarian certification tool used by the European Union for controlling the import and export of live animals and animal products within and without its borders. Its network falls under the responsibility of the European Commission. Background[edit] Since the end of the nineteenth century, following the development of modern veterinary medicine and food safety, European states have built, in parallel with customs structures, veterinary inspection stations located at the borders known as Border Inspection Posts.
There all goods of animal origin including live animals are checked in order to avoid outbreaks of zoonoses and epizooties. Following the development of office computerisation and computer networking in the '80s, many countries started to think about veterinary computer certification. The TRACES network started up in April 2004 as a replacement for the older ANIMO and SHIFT networks. Features[edit] History[edit] Traces4vets.mdl2.com.