Definitions, symbols and abbreviations

INSTAT: INSTAT is the name of the Intrastat declaration reported in EDI.  The traders report monthly statistics of intra-Community Trade called Intrastat declarations to the Competent National Administration responsible for compiling statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States.  When validating the received Intrastat declarations, the Competent National Administration can send a response related to these declarations.

INTRASTAT: The Intrastat system (EC regulation) is the statistical collection system set up for compiling statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States (or statistics of intra-Community Trade).

INSRES: When validating the received Intrastat declarations, the Competent National Administration can send a response to these declarations of the traders. INSRES is the name of the response reported in EDI to the Intrastat declarations.

For the purposes of the present document, the following abbreviations apply:

CNA           Competent National Administration responsible for compiling statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States

EDI             Electronic Data Exchange

INSTAT     Name of the Intrastat declaration

INSRES      Name of the application response to the Intrastat declaration

MIG            Message Implementation Guideline

PSI             Party responsible for providing statistical information in the Intrastat system

TDP            Declaring Third Party submitting the Intrastat declarations on behalf of a PSI

XML           eXtended Markup Langage

For the purposes of the present document, the following conventions are used for the diagrams:

• Information combining several names contains these names separated by an upper-case, for example statisticalValue for statistical value;

• In class diagrams:

• each class has its name beginning by an upper-case, for example Envelope and each attribute has its name beginning by a lower-case, for example flowCode;

• acronyms are in upper-case, for example PSI for Party responsible for providing statistical information in the Intrastat system;

• Id is the abbreviation of Identification, for example envelopeId for envelopeIdentification (identification of the envelope);

• r is the abbreviation of received, for example rTotalInvoicedAmount for receivedTotalInvoicedAmount (Total invoiced amount of goods, for the received Intrastat declaration).

In class diagrams, attributes have the following types:

• string represents a character string;

• boolean represents the set of literals {true, false};

• date is represented by CCYY-MM-DD where CC represents the century, YY the year, MM the month and DD the day [ISO 8601];

• time is represented by hh:mm:ss where hh, mm, ss represent hour, minute and second respectively [ISO 8601];

• integer is represented by a finite-length sequence of decimal digits (#x30-#x39) with an optional leading sign; if the sign is omitted, + is assumed;

• anyURI represents finite-length character sequences, which result in strings which are legal URIs according to [RFC 2396], as amended by [RFC 2732];

• decimal is a finite-length sequence of decimal digits (#x30-#x39) separated by a decimal indicator; an optional leading sign is allowed; if the sign is omitted, + is assumed.

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