The Centre for Identification Systems offers consumers an automated information system for the identification, registration, traceability of animals and products of animal origin (AITS) under an outsourcing agreement and is looking for partners interested in a distribution services agreement.

The Centre for Identification Systems has developed the National Automated Information System for the identification, registration, traceability of animals and products of animal origin (AITS, www.aits.by), which is used to register owners of animals of all forms of ownership, livestock facilities, and animals themselves.

AITS is a system designated for state regulation and management in the field of identification, registration, traceability of farm animals (bovines, horses, pigs, goats, sheep) of all forms of ownership, livestock facilities, as well as for identification and traceability of products of animal origin.

AITS provides real-time information on the health status and veterinary welfare of each farm animal throughout its life, as well as on all deliveries of produced meat and dairy products from identified animals. The system receives information on a daily basis about who, what and with what quality indicators the products were produced, what raw materials, from which livestock facilities (up to the identifiers of specific animals) were used for its production, as well as a register of all shipments of each daily, manufactured batch of products for each a specific name with the provision, if necessary, of digital (electronic) passports of goods. Any of the participants in the supply chain can receive a unified electronic veterinary certificate (EVS) containing data on shipment, data on each specific name of the goods in the shipped batch, including indicators of quality and veterinary safety.

AITS is a centralized system built with the use of barcoding and RFID-technologies on the basis of a powerful information node with appropriate means of communication. The system meets the requirements of the Belarusian and international regulations for animal identification systems.

AITS ensures animal traceability in Belarus basing on national and international standards for animal identification and registration and making an extensive use of the GS1 global standards.

The core of the AITS system uses modern international zootechnical and veterinary reference sources, global standards for
identification, traceability and electronic data interchange, and has a flexible customization system.

This allows it not only to be quickly tailored for the identification of different animal species, but also to take into account changes and differences in legislation, ensuring the system can be quickly set up and implemented in other countries.

AITS creates and keeps up-to-date databases and functional components for the identification and traceability of products of animal origin in supply chains, allowing to trace them from farm to fork and from fork to farm in a "one step forward, one step back" manner.

This creates conditions for the development of effective traceability information technologies at the national, inter-agency and corporate level.

The AITS system is an exhibit at the "My Belarus" (in Russian) exhibition, part of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus's booth.

Full information on the System for Identification, Registration, and Traceability of Animals and Animal Products in the Republic of Belarus is available on the website of the "Center for Information Systems in Animal Husbandry" (in Russian), which actively uses the developed system.

The structure and format of EMU comply with the international e-CERT standard recommended by the UN Committee on Facilitation of Procedures in Trade, Transport and Logistics - UN / CEFACT.

Foreign analogues of AITS include:

National government systems:
1. Horriot (Russia): A component of the VetIS system, designed for animal identification and registration in Russia.
2. TRACES (EU): A multilingual online platform of the European Union for sanitary and phytosanitary certification.

Key advantages:

End-to-end traceability: Ensures traceability from the birth of an animal (or registration of an object) to the sale of finished products, based on the "from field to fork" principle.

International integration: Built on GS1 standards, enabling data exchange with systems of other countries during cross-border trade (important for exports to the EAEU and EU).

Veterinary safety: Includes the AITS-Traceability and AITS-VetSafety subsystems, automating the issuance of veterinary certificates and monitoring of preventive measures.

Flexible configuration: The system easily adapts to the laws of different countries and different animal species (cattle, pigs, horses, sheep, goats).

Error-free: Minimizes human error in livestock accounting and reporting, preventing distortion of livestock data.

A prerequisite for building safe and secure food supply chains is to adopt uniform national and international rules for identification, registration and traceability of farm animals and, basing on these rules, to develop technologies for traceability of products of animal origin.

Scientific and Engineering Republican Unitary Enterprise "Intersectoral Scientific and Practical Center for Identification Systems and Electronic Business Operations" (State Enterprise "Centre for Identification Systems") was established in 2006 as a specialized organization in the field of automatic identification technologies and electronic business operations.

The "Centre for Identification Systems" is:
- the lead organization in the Republic of Belarus for the scientific and methodological support of the creation and operation of information resources (systems) on goods (products), their automatic identification, and the provision of electronic document flow in distribution networks and e-commerce processes;
- the owner and operator of the Interdepartmental Distributed Information System "Databank of Electronic Product Passports"—the republican system of basic information (master data) on goods produced and sold in Belarus for the purposes of automated accounting in distribution networks and e-commerce processes;
- an organization responsible for the formation and maintenance of a republican register of standard electronic messages and documents that facilitate electronic data exchange during e-commerce processes;
- an authorized organization for issuing an electronic document management operator (EDI provider) certificate, ensuring the transmission and receipt of electronic waybills, as well as transport (shipping) documents and/or other documents confirming the movement of goods in mutual trade between the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union;
- an accredited scientific organization developing a national system of automatic identification and electronic commerce based on international standards, which ensures the creation, development, and maintenance of state, industry, and corporate information systems for identification, traceability, and electronic data exchange;
- a member of the GS1 Belarusian Automatic Identification Association;
- a member of the Infopark Scientific and Technological Association;
- a member of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a bona fide partner of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry;
- a resident of the High Technologies Park;
- a developer and systems integrator of automated information systems (AIS) at the state, industry, and corporate levels, specialized software, promotes standardization in its core business, and conducts scientific research.

State Enterprise "Centre for Identification Systems":
- Heads the National Technical Committee for Standardization in Automatic Identification Technologies and Electronic Business – TC BY 24 "Identification" (development of standards in automatic identification and electronic data exchange);
- Collaborates with leading universities and participates in the training of undergraduate and graduate students in information technology. The enterprise operates a branch of the Department of Information Radio Technologies of the Faculty of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. The branch also trains graduate students.
- operates an accredited testing laboratory to verify the legality of use and quality of barcode symbols for all product groups, both those produced within the Customs Union (with the EAC marking) and those imported from third countries, and their subsequent registration in retail chains of the Republic of Belarus;
- develops and consults on the creation and modernization of automated information systems for various purposes based on international standards and recommendations in the field of automatic identification and e-business, including barcoding technologies, radio frequency identification, and integration solutions.

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