EEG6Working Group 5 (EEG6/WG5) is concentrating on the procedures for collecting and disseminating statistical information in the field of international trade. For the European Economical Area (EEA) countries such a solution will create a mechanism for collecting these statistics in an open trading environment.
The target public for the messages developed by the group are the National Statistical Administrations, the national or regional collection centres, and the economic operators who are direct declarants.
EEG6/WG5 works in close collaboration with EBES/EEG3, the Customs Message Development Group responsible for the management of customs messages, and with the Statistical Committee for External Trade.
Three subsets of messages have been developed so far:-
For the declaration of intra-Community trade. This is a subset of the Customs declaration message, CUSDEC. CUSDEC/INSTAT has been part of the EC INTRASTAT regulation since the opening of the Single European Market in 1993. The related Message Implementation Guide (MIG) was published in March '96 (S.93A & 92.1 directories).
For the declaration of extra-Community trade, which is also a subset of the Customs declaration message, CUSDEC. The publication of its MIG was issued in March '97 (D.96.B directory).
The response message to INSTAT, implemented as a subset of the Customs response message, CUSRES. The related MIG has been published in March '96 (S.93A & 92.1 directories).
A subset of CLASET is being studied by EEG6/WG5 for the transmission of the updates of the Combined Nomenclature (CN8) with TARIC codes from the Competent National Administrations to the companies providing extra-Community trade statistics.
The MIG of the CONTRL message as a syntactical response to CUSDEC/ INSTAT and CUSDEC/EXSTAT is completed. CONTRL is implemented in the IDEP/CN8 package, a software for inputting the INTRASTAT declaration.
In 1995, the group created a prototype for the implementation of security counter-measures for EDIFACT messages in the field of statistics. Promotion and demonstrations have been held in various organisations involved in EDI.