VRD Exchange / EUCARIS Presentation of the preliminary findings for Tasks 02 and 05 of the evaluation / discussion
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04: Q&A 21
Table of Contents
European Vehicle and Driving Licence Information System
Presentation of EUCARIS
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Legal basis establishing EUCARIS
› Treaty concerning a European Vehicle and Driving Licence Information System (EUCARIS), Luxembourg, 29 June 2000.
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› Justice and citizens’ rights: DG HOME - Police Cooperation (PRÜM Decision)
› Transport and travel: DG MOVE – RESPER, ERRU, Tachonet; DG ENTR - Reregistration of vehicles DG CNECT – eCall
Policy areas supported by EUCARIS 5
Presentation of EUCARIS (1/3) Key facts
Source: EUCARIS Treaty,; Assessment of TES supporting EU policies , Self-assessment questionnaire on EUCARIS , 12.07.2013.
Objectives of EUCARIS 2
› To ensure that the central vehicle and driving licence registers of EU countries are accurate and reliable;
› To assist in preventing, investigating and prosecuting offences against the laws of individual States in the field of driving licences, vehicle registration and other vehicle-related fraud and criminality;
› To exchange information rapidly in order to increase the efficiency of administrative measures taken by the relevant authorities according to the legal and administrative regulations of EU countries.
Description of EUCARIS 1
› The European Vehicle and Driving Licence Information System (EUCARIS) is an information system, established by the EUCARIS Treaty, for the exchange of vehicle and driving licence data between Member States (MSs).
Year of operation
› Operational since 31 December 1994.
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Cost of EUCARIS
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Expenditure Amount of the funding (in €m)
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Total (per year)
Development 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
Maintenance 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Support 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
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Presentation of EUCARIS (2/3) Overall architecture
Closed Network
NL
UK
Police
Customs
Other enforcement authorities
Registration Authority
Registration Authority
BE
DE
...
SE
Technical Vehicle Inspection Centres
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Presentation of EUCARIS (3/3) CBE implementation
Police system Prüm
Police system traffic checks
Justice system traffic fine collection
EUCARIS EUCARIS
Online provision of Prüm data
Online provision of
CBE data
Batch provision of
CBE data
Vehicle registration
Batch requests, multi‐ vehicle, asynchronous processing
Single requests, case by case, for online checks
Requesting MS sTESTA Providing MS
sTESTA network
• A requesting MS can develop an online real-time facility; a procedure to send out requests in batch mode, or both for retrieval of vehicle and owner/holder data.
• EUCARIS is responsible for services for the exchange of vehicle and owner/holder data.
• A providing MS is obliged to support provision of vehicle and owner/holder data both in online real-time mode and in batch exchange mode.
Task 02
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Scope, preliminary findings & recommendations
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Scope Assessment of EUCARIS effectiveness
Scope
› Assessment of whether EUCARIS guarantees an effective, expeditious, secure and confidential exchange of
specific vehicle registration data.
“To what extent are the costs involved in the cross-border exchange of data and for the follow-up
procedures adequate to achieve the objectives of the CBE Directive?”
› Quantitative analysis on how many of road safety related traffic offences detected automatically are
followed by the searches via EUCARIS in 2013/2015.
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› Implementation of EUCARIS/CBE between 2013 and 2015
› EUCARIS/CBE application was operational in 14 EU countries at the end of 2014.
› EUCARIS/CBE application was operational in 16 EU countries, as of June 2015.
› 2 EU countries passed the implementation test with RDW/NL and are now waiting for the final decision of their competent ministry.
› 9 EU countries had not yet started implementing the application, out of which 3 have until 06 May 2017 to do so (i.e. UK, IE, DK).
Source: Report from RDW/NL on the implementation of the CBE directive (2013, 2014 and 2015)
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2013 2014 2015
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No initiative (yet) Under construction
Opt-out In acceptance
Accepted, pending
In production
Preliminary finding Implementation of the EUCARIS/CBE application (1/2)
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› Implementation of EUCARIS/CBE in 2015
Source: Report from RDW/NL on the implementation of the CBE directive (2013, 2014 and 2015)
SI
PL NL
ES
LV
RO
DE
CZ
IE
FI
BG
SE
HU
IT
UK
BE
FR
PT
SK
DK
HR
EE
LT
LU
CY
MT
GR
NO
CH
AT
In production Accepted, pending In acceptance Under construction
Opt-out No initiatives (yet)
› Croatia and Estonia are the two latest countries having implemented the EUCARIS/CBE application.
› Italy and Greece passed the implementation test with RDW/NL and are now waiting for the final decision of their competent ministry.
› Luxembourg and Malta are in the testing phase.
› The EUCARIS/CBE application is under construction in Slovenia.
Preliminary finding Implementation of the EUCARIS/CBE application (2/2)
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› While data tend to be scarce per type of offence, 8 countries (57%) were able to report on the total number of outgoing searches performed and failed searches.
Preliminary finding Failed outgoing searches
Article 6 of the CBE Directive: “Member States shall send a preliminary report to the Commission by 7 November 2014. They shall also
send a comprehensive report to the Commission by 6 May 2016 and every two years thereafter..”
BE
665
1,680 74
BG 54
1,406,263 66,351
DE
FR
3,424
2,794 167,973
AT 77,479
138,281
7,484 PL
1,363
LT 1,902 5,337
HU 2,540
Failed searches
Outgoing searches
Source: Preliminary reports submitted by MSs to the Commission by 7 November 2014 (AT, BE, BG, DE, ES, FR, HU, LV, LT, NL, PL, RO, SK, SE).
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Source: Interview with RDW/NL on 15.09.2015; Working group on Information Exchange and Data Protection (DAPIX), 21.08.2012
2. Secure Sockets Layer
The exclusiveness of the data exchange is
guaranteed by encryption of the
message by means of one-
sided SSL.
3. XML-signing
XML-signing guarantees the integrity of the communication
and authenticates the sender of the
message.
4. Separated user groups
Users of other functionalities of EUCARIS have no access to the CBE
functionalities.
1. Closed EU network sTESTA
All traffic over this network is encrypted/
decrypted by hardware devices at the endpoints of the network.
5. Logging
Both requests and responses are
logged.
6. Configurable maximum
legal storage period
Security measures used by EUCARIS
Article 4(4) of the CBE Directive: “Member States shall ensure that this exchange of information is conducted in a cost efficient and
secure manner and ensure the security and protection of the data transmitted, as far as possible using existing software applications such
as the one especially designed for the purposes of Article 12 of Decision 2008/615/JHA, and amended versions of those software
applications, in compliance with Annex I to this Directive and with points 2 and 3 of Chapter 3 of the Annex to Decision 2008/616/JHA.“
Preliminary finding Compliance of EUCARIS/CBE application with security provisions
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Article 7 of the CBE Directive: “The provisions on data protection set out in Framework Decision 2008/977/JHA shall apply to personal
data processed under this Directive. “[…] “All relevant provisions on data protection set out in the Prüm Decisions shall also apply to
personal data processed under this Directive.”
Preliminary finding Compliance of EUCARIS/CBE application with data protection provisions
› EUCARIS only transfers data from one MS to another: EUCARIS does not store any information apart from these included in the logging (as part of the security measures).
› The system can thus be considered as fully compliant with the data protection provisions from the CBE Directive.
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The client: - Checks the server certificate - Signs the message
One-sided SSL tunnel The server: - Terminates the SSL-tunnel - - Checks the signature
Plain text message
TCP/IP network
Signed XML-message
Signed XML-message
External organisation (client applications)
Data centre
Requesting MS
Router EUCARIS Back-end
Source: Interview with RDW/NL on 15.09.2015; Council Decision 2008/616/JHA
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1. To what extent do you agree that the EUCARIS application supports the proper implementation of the CBE Directive?*
2. What is your overall satisfaction with the EUCARIS application?*
3. To what extent has EUCARIS met your expectations?*
4. In your opinion, how is the EUCARIS application compared with an ideal information exchange system?*
5. What is your overall satisfaction with the other functionalities (e.g. for Prüm) offered by EUCARIS?*
6. How likely is it that you would recommend EUCARIS within your MS to exchange VRD for other purposes such as tolls, parking fees etc. provided that a legal base for the exchange is present?*
7. What is your overall satisfaction with the EUCARIS helpdesk support?*
8. To what extent do you agree that the EUCARIS helpdesk support has been helpful to assist you in deploying and performing operations with the system?*
› A satisfaction survey aims to be distributed at the next EUCARIS General Assembly, to assess target user groups’ degree of satisfaction with EUCARIS/CBE application.
Source: American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) and Net Promoter Score (NPS)
EUCARIS Assembly
Satisfaction survey
Preliminary finding Degree of satisfaction in the use of EUCARIS/CBE application
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Recommendations Assessment of EUCARIS effectiveness
Recommendations
1. EUCARIS/CBE application guarantees an effective, expeditious, secure and
confidential exchange of specific vehicle registration data.
It is recommended that Member States actively use the system (searches
following the offences i.e. active investigation), since this remains unsatisfactory.
2. Moreover, even though MSs seem to be satisfied with the EUCARIS/CBE application (no user
reported any major issue to RDW/NL on the operation of EUCARIS/CBE application), it is
recommended to conduct a survey to measure the satisfaction of EUCARIS/CBE
application user groups with the system, since this has never been done in the past.
Task 05
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Scope Assessment of EUCARIS efficiency
Scope
› Quantitative assessment of administrative costs, including for the cross-border exchange of data and for
the follow-up procedures.
“To what extent are the costs involved in the cross-border exchange of data and for the follow-up
procedures adequate to achieve the objectives of the CBE Directive?”
“What aspects of the implementation of the CBE Directive generate unnecessary administrative
burden and how could this be improved?”
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Preliminary finding Total IT costs for administering, using and maintaining EUCARIS
› The overall cost for administering the EUCARIS application was estimated in 2013 by RDW/NL.
Expenditure Amount of the funding (in €m)
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Infrastructure 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Development 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
Maintenance 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Support 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3
Training 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
› In addition, the costs (per MS and per year) related to the development and implementation of the EUCARIS/CBE application were as follows:
• 2013: € 8,805
• 2014: € 2,633
• 2015: € 1,680
• 2016: € 1,250 (€ 750 + € 500 to cover the operational costs for the CBE).
Source: Interview with RDW/NL on 15.09.2015; Council Decision 2008/616/JHA
Q&A
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Questions ?
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