Standard

The ETN services are founded in the use of a common language that allows to overcome the barrier formed by the different protocols and message formats used by European countries' customs administrations. UIDS focuses on the data model and information exchange fuctions needed by European companies to manage the flow between traders and national customs administrations, in every country.

The UIDS specification is designed to support the ETN services, current and future. For this purpose, UIDS is built with XML (eXtensible Markup Language) technologies and Internet standards that make extensions possible with cost-contained effort. UIDS is designed independent of the national transport protocol used, and aware of language differences between European countries assuring character interpretation and local alphabet representation.

UIDS creates a European single space for customs procedures. Beginning with your own corporate systems.

Other networks integration

As a standard, UIDS is open to allow the integration of other applications, telecommunications and community service networks. The third-party components have only to interface its internal data model to UIDS to access the ETN services in each territory.