Intrastat web-form in Finland

The Intrastat web-form in Finland (National Board of Customs - Finland)

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Summary Description
Overview | Platforms | Type of users | Usage of the web-form | Availability

Overview

The Finnish Intrastat web-form is an on-line web questionnaire available in Finland for the collection of Intrastat data since 1999. This system is produced in co-operation between Finnish Customs and Finland Post Ltd. The project control is with Finnish Customs while Finland Post acts as service provider.
The declaration is completed on-line by the declarant on the Finland Post web server, is afterwards translated into the EDIFACT message CUSDEC/INSTAT and is then transmitted from Finland Post to Finnish Customs.
This system is cheaper and faster for making declarations, and is a great success for companies which are currently providing Intrastat declarations on paper. Finnish Customs finance the system (excluding the declarant. s telecoms costs) and derive benefit from the improved quality of the received data and a decrease in the costs of data processing.

The main functions offered are:

on-line registration,
user authentication,
arrivals declaration form,
dispatches declaration form,
management of the declarations,
user feedback function,
management of a list of clients (for agents),
management of company information (address, contact person, password),
multilingual support (Finnish, Swedish).

Platforms

The minimum system requirements for the user to work with the system are:

32-bit PC,
Windows 95 (or above) or Windows NT,
Internet access,
Netscape Navigator version 4.04 (or above) or Internet Explorer version 4 (or above),
screen resolution of 800 x 600 (recommended minimum).

Decisions had to be taken to balance the functionality offered on the client side and the burden of supporting various web browsers. Web browsers are being developed very fast and there are several new releases by different software companies annually. This requires an ongoing testing of compatibility of service.

Type of users

The Finnish Intrastat web-form is targeted at the companies providing statistical information in Intrastat or third declaring parties, who have fewer than thirty lines per declaration and used paper forms before. The web-form is in available in Finnish and Swedish and is intended in English.

Usage of the web-form

1690 providers of statistical information and 10 third declaring parties are using the Finnish Intrastat web-form at 30.06.2000 (figure coming from the 2000 EDI questionnaire).

Availability

Except the telecommunication costs, the Finnish Intrastat web-form is free of charge for the provider of statistical information who must be registered with Finnish Customs.

Source document containing the complete description

"Web-forms for Intrastat"

Other documents reporting usage of this tool

Doc. CoRD028: "Electronic collection of raw data"