1. EUropean CAR and driving licence Information System
Brussels,
Idske Dijkstra
RDW / Dutch Vehicle and Driving Licence Registration Authority
Operational System Manager EUCARIS

2. Agenda
EUCARIS
Introduction
The system
ERRU

3. EUCARIS
Introduction

4. What is EUCARIS? The basics
EUropean CAR and driving licence Information System
Infrastructure
Initiative of 5 EU registration
authorities in early nineties
Organisation
Application

5. What is EUCARIS? Aims of the system Original aims of the system:
Prevention of fraud and crime related to import / export of stolen vehicles
Facilitation of the registration process of imported vehicles
Facilitation of the exchange of driving licences
Accurate records in national databases
Nowadays:
General exchange mechanism for all transport related data
between all registration authorities of Europe
System is used by registration authorities, police, customs, etc

6. EUCARIS at the moment Technical information of vehicles
18 participants
6.6 million enquiries per year
refused re-registrations
3.000 stolen vehicles found per year
Driving licence information
7 participants
Treaty / Council Decision Prüm, in 2011 all 27 Member States connected
Bilateral Agreements on Traffic Fines

7. Members are Parties to the Treaty Members are Third Parties to EUCARIS
What is EUCARIS
Legal basis
Legal basis
Prüm Treaty /
Council decision
EUCARIS Treaty
Bilateral agreements
Members are Parties to the Treaty
Members are Third Parties to EUCARIS
Registration autorities
Including technical data
Also driving licence information
Traffic fines, toll, etc
Any information possible
Police cooperation
Owner / holder
Insurance information
Limited technical data

8. What is EUCARIS? Organisation
> Registration Authority as the national contact point
> System is used by Registration Authorities, Police, Customs, Inspection
authorities, tax offices, (enforcement) …
> Highest Authority is Participant’s Board of participating Countries
> Nominated parties for central
tasks:
- Depositary
- Operational system management
- Helpdesk ICT
- Monitoring
- Secretariat
- Finances
> Annual cost sharing between the participants
No profit // only governmental // no private organisations involved

9. What is EUCARIS?
Budget
Our annual costs for EUCARIS include four elements:
Connection to sTESTA: Costs are € yearly, but these costs are only applicable for direct connections. One connection per member state is free, so if you connect via this connection point (e.g. via your national network), you will not have any costs at all. Within RDW the sTESTA costs are shared between TACHOnet, EUCARIS Vehicles and Driving Licences, and Prüm. So costs for Prüm are €
Hardware: We operate two production servers (automated fail-over for 99% availability) and one permanent test-acceptation server. Costs for each server are € yearly, including depreciation, maintenance and general ICT overhead. Costs are to be shared by EUCARIS Vehicles, Driving Licences and Prüm. So costs for Prüm are € /3 = €
Personnel: We yearly spend 300 man-hours on system administration for EUCARIS Vehicles, Driving Licences and Prüm, so 100 hours for Prüm. Costs for Prüm are 100 * € 100 = €
Yearly fee for EUCARIS: For 2011 the basic contribution is around € In NL these costs are shared by Prüm, EUCARIS Vehicles, EUCARIS Driving Licences and Traffic Fines (bulk exchange of Owner/Holder info via EUCARIS). Costs for Prüm: € 2000.
So our total costs for Prüm are € yearly. Please be aware of the following:
We only refer to the costs at the Registration Authority (provision of information). Costs at our Police Organisation (users) are not included.
In NL costs for Prüm are low because we use different EUCARIS services and share the costs. If you only use the Prüm functionality you still need a sTESTA connection and two or three servers and you will have to pay the yearly fee for EUCARIS alone.
EUCARIS countries pre-finance new functionalities, e.g. for ERRU
Basic contribution for all connections

10. EUCARIS Members

11. EUCARIS Prüm

12. EUCARIS Traffic Fines

14. New functionalities
In cooperation with the EC the technology (system) of EUCARIS is also introduced for:
3rd Directive on Driving Licences (project RESPER)
EU Directive on cross border enforcement
eCall project of DG INFSO
Exchange of mileage information – Bilateral between B and NL
Tachograph cards (project TACHOnet)
Modernisation and data providing about periodical technical vehicle inspections (PTI project)

15. EUCARIS
The system

16. Prüm/ Council Decisions
One generic technical framework
for different legal frameworks
Mileage
Kilometresand
Miles
data
eCall
Technical Vehicle
data
EUCARIS
Treaty
Technical vehicle
& driving licence
data
RESPER
Driving licence
data
PTI ERRU
Technical Transport Vehicle Undertakings
data and
Inspection
Results
Prüm/ Council Decisions
Vehicle-, Owner-holder Insurance info
Bilateral treaties/
File transfers
Personal and
technical data
(traffic fines)
TACHO
net
Tacho-graph
Cards
EUCARIS generic framework/technology/basic system:
authorisation, encryption, signing, logging, routing, MCI, queuing, retry, helpfiles, translation, statistics

17. EUCARIS Main characteristics
Information exchange on vehicles, driving licences and other tranport related items
No central system:
Each MS responsible for its own data
Registration authority is gateway to other MS and its own users
No dependence on availibility of a central system
Shared costs for application development
Easy to deploy in the member states

18. Other enforcement authorities Registration Authority
EUCARIS architecture
Police FR
Customs
Other enforcement authorities NL
Closed Network
Registration Authority DE UK
Registration Authority
NL = RDW
DE = KBA
etc. SE ES

19. Other enforcement authorities Registration Authority
EUCARIS architecture
Police FR
Customs NL
Other enforcement authorities
Closed Network
Registration Authority DE UK
Registration Authority SE ES

20. Other enforcement authorities Registration Authority
EUCARIS architecture
Police FR
Customs NL
Other enforcement authorities
Closed Network
Registration Authority DE UK
Registration Authority SE ES

21. Main characteristics continued
EUCARIS
Main characteristics continued
European Union: Compliant with EU requirements
Security:
Authorisation of Member States and Organisations per service
Exclusiveness guaranteed by encryption (SSL)
Integrity guaranteed by message signing
User authentication by standard Windows functionality
Data protection facilitated by Logging
Network:
Use of sTESTA, the closed EU network
Technology:
Web services
Web client and Programme-to-Programme communication
Additional functionalities can easlily be added (e.g. traffic fines)

22. EUCARIS
Web Client

25. EUCARIS
ERRU

26. ERRU – How
Based on the proposed Regulation  two sorts of information exchange
Infringements – Member States communicate information on infringements committed by operators (+ sanctions) to the Member State which issued their licence
Good repute - Member States consult relevant information held by all other States to assist them in deciding whether or not to issue or renew an operator’s licence.
Messages
Infringement notification
Infringement response
Search request regarding the fitness of transport manager
Search response

27. Serious Infringements
Infringement Notification
Acknowledgement
Infringement Response

28. Good repute of transport manager
Search request
Acknowledgement
Search Response

29. EUCARIS / TACHOnet Integrated
ERRU – How
EUCARIS / TACHOnet Integrated
EUCARIS
TACHOnet
Member State
Member State
Central hub
Member State
Member State

30. ERRU – When
: Decision minimum requirements for data in national register
January 2010: Start Complementary study on technical specification
External contractor EC in contact with EUCARIS Organisation
June 2010: Rules on interoperability ready
October 2010: Committee meeting (vote)
: Adoption of rules on interoperability
December 2010: Start Development and Implementation phase (18 to 24 months)
October 2011: Application of road package: register has to be implemented
: Interconnection of registers + assessing fitness of manager
: All serious infringements in register

31. EUCARIS Software and Supporting tools
ERRU – How
EUCARIS Software and Supporting tools
Messages for “serious infringements” and “check good repute”
Acknowledgements
Broker functions to connect to TACHOnet
Transliteration and Phonex Key service
Existing User Management tool
To define different user groups and to delegate the authorisation
All updates in the user administration logged in the event-log (extra security)
Existing Log Collector
To gather statistics
Log Viewer
To analyse the EUCARIS logging in a simple way
Existing Monitoring tool
To monitor the performance and availability of the Member States
Reporting

32. Advantages of one interface via one NCP
One standardised interface between Europe and national organisations
- One time installation of generic functionality
- No interoperability issues (all MS use the same interface)
- Resulting in reduction of costs
Increased service levels
- Investment in a cluster of servers shared by different stakeholders
- Fail-over guarantees higher availability
- Load balancing guarantees better performance
- National monitoring and support concentrated
Possibilities for integrated client applications: vehicle, owner/holder, DL, Tachograph card, transport undertakings ……….
Combine existing and new functionalities all in one application!!!
Demo: fictive enforcement case

33. Demo: Fictive enforcement case
Licence number
Licence
number
Vehicle + O/H
Ch. of Comm.
number
Transport
Undertakings
Insurances
Card
number
Tachocards
File number
File number
DL number
Notific. on
infringements
Driving Licence
Get sanctions

40. Technical support during implementation eucaris2help@rdw.net
Technical support during implementation
Technical support during operation