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1 OWNER: DG TAXUD ISSUE DATE: 28/03/2011 VERSION: 2.04 COMPUTERISATION PROJECT SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS (ESS), COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION PROGRAMME SUBJECT: Glossary of Terms (GLT) ECP1-ESS-GLT

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3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Document History Edi. Rev. Date Description Action (*) Sections /08/2004 Creation. I All /08/2004 Updated after internal review. U All /08/2004 Updated after internal review. U /09/2004 Updated after feedback DG TAXUD. U 1, 2.1, 3.2, 4, 5 I /09/2004 Updated after SEVE quality review, SfR. U All /10/2004 Updated after review meeting at DG TAXUD. U /10/2004 Translated in FR and DE. U 1.2, 1.3, 4, /10/2004 Updated after SEVE quality review, SfA. U All /11/2004 Updated according to DG TAXUD comments, SfA (2) /05/2010 Updated according to latest reference documents and regulations. Submit for Internal QC U 3.2, 4, 5 U All D /06/2010 Implementing internal review comments. Submit for Review /07/2010 Updated according to DG TAXUD comments, SfA. R U All All /07/2010 Updated after verification by DG TAXUD, re-sfa. U 3.2, 4, /09/2010 Updated by DG TAXUD. U 4, 5 ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page iii of 70

4 TABLE OF CONTENTS /03/2011 Implementing DE and AT comments. Submit for Review /03/2011 Updated according to DG TAXUD comments, SfA. U 3.2, 4, 5 U 5 (*) Action: I = Insert, R = Replace, U = Update, D = Delete ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page iv of 70

5 TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents 1. Management Summary English Deutsch Français Introduction Intended Readership Purpose of the Document Changes to this Document References Definition of Terms used in the Computerisation Project Typology of Contexts Definitions Administrative Reference Code (ARC) Acceptance Test Application Architecture Overview Asset Audit Trail Authentication Authorisation Authorised Warehousekeeper Availability Business Area Business Process Business Process Model Business Rule Central Help Desk (CHD) Central Project Team (CPT) Central Service Desk (CSD) Central Services/Management Information System (CS/MIS) Central Services/Reference Data (CS/RD) Centrally Developed Application (CDEA) Change of destination Committee on Excise Duty Combined Nomenclature Code (CN Code) 19 ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page v of 70

6 TABLE OF CONTENTS Common Communications Network/Common Systems Interface (CCN/CSI) Common Domain (CD) Confidentiality Conformance Testing (CT) Conformance Testing Organisation Document (CTOD) Conformance Testing Protocol (CTP) Customs Office List (COL) Design Document for National Excise Application (DDNEA) Direct Delivery Duty Suspension Arrangement Economic Operator (EcOp) EDI EDIFACT Electronic Administrative Document (e-ad) Electronic Credentials Elementary Business Process (EBP) Computerisation Project (ECP) Encryption End-User Escalation Excise Application Computerisation Working Party (ECWP) Excise Contact Group (ECG) Excise Duty Excise Liaison Office (ELO) Excise Movement and Control System () Exempted Consignee External Domain (ED) Fallback and Recovery Specifications (FRS) Follow-up Trail Functional Excise System Specification (FESS) Functional Message Structure Gateway Guarantor Integrity Integrity Check Journey Time Local Reference Number (LRN) Member State Administration (MSA) Member State of Destination Member State of Dispatch Movement Guarantee National Help Desk (NHD) National Domain (ND) National Excise Application (NEA) National Service Desk (NSD) 28 ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page vi of 70

7 TABLE OF CONTENTS Nationally Developed Application (NDEA) Network and Gateway Infrastructure Phase and Scope Specifications (PSS) Pre-Conformance Testing (Pre-CT) Process Flow Diagram Process Thread Quality Assurance Quality Control Reference Data Registered Consignee Registered Consignor Report of Receipt Security Excise System Specifications (SESS) Security Measures Security Policy Document (SEP) Security Requirements Security Risk Security Risk Assessment Service Level Agreement (SLA) Splitting State Transition Diagram (STD) Stress Test Tax Warehouse Technical Excise System Specifications (TESS) Temporary Registered Consignee Terms of Collaboration (TOC) Test Application Test Campaign Test Case Test Log Test Plan Test Scenario Test Scripts Test Specification Test Summary Report (TSR) Time Sequence Diagram (TSD) Threat Token Trans-European System (TES) Transporter Use Case Vulnerability 36 ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page vii of 70

8 TABLE OF CONTENTS 4. English - German - French Glossary of Terms English - German - French Glossary of Acronyms 54 ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page viii of 70

9 MANAGEMENT SUMMARY 1. Management Summary 1.1. English Goal This document provides a Glossary of Terms for the Computerisation Project aiming at: Ensuring a common understanding of project reports, which may use terms that might assume a different meaning in relation to the reading countries; Enabling new readers of project documentation to understand the terminology used; Defining the meanings of expressions that are used repeatedly, so that even knowledgeable readers can achieve a common understanding of the sense in which the terminology is used; Providing an aid to translators and interpreters; Not including terms and definitions of the Rollout Strategy. These terms are part of the PSS and Migration Plan. This document focuses on business and technical terminology. Document Summary The structure reflects the above objectives. Section 2... Is an introduction to the present document in terms of intended readership, purpose and change management; Section 3... Contains the definitions of some of the acronyms, abbreviations and technical terminology, which originate from both the user and IT environments; Section 4... Is an English / German / French glossary of terms, which is intended to ensure accurate and consistent translations; Section 5... Is an English / German / French glossary of all acronyms encountered in the project documentation; ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page 9 of 70

10 MANAGEMENT SUMMARY 1.2. Deutsch Zielsetzung Dieses Dokument enthält ein Terminologieglossar für das -DV-Projekt, mit dem folgende Zielsetzungen verfolgt werden: Es soll ein einheitliches Verständnis der Projektberichte gewährleisten, in denen möglicherweise Begriffe verwendet werden, die in den verschiedenen Ländern, in denen die Berichte gelesen werden, eine unterschiedliche Bedeutung haben können. Neue Leser der Projektdokumentation sollen in die Lage versetzt werden, die verwendete Terminologie zu verstehen. Die Bedeutung wiederholt verwendeter Ausdrücke soll definiert werden, damit auch sachkundige Leser ein einheitliches Verständnis des Sinnes, in dem die Terminologie verwendet wird, erreichen können. Das Glossar soll Übersetzern und Dolmetschern eine Hilfe sein. Enthält keine Begriffe und Definitionen des Rollout-Strategie. Diese Begriffe sind Teil der PSS und Migration Plan. Dieses Dokument konzentriert sich auf die geschäftliche und technische Terminologie. Zusammenfassung des Dokuments Die Struktur spiegelt die vorstehend aufgeführten Zielsetzungen wider. Abschnitt 2... Stellt eine Einführung in dieses Dokument dar, der die angestrebte Leserschaft, die Zielsetzung des Dokuments und die Verwaltung von Änderungen zu entnehmen sind. Abschnitt 3... Enthält die Definitionen einiger Akronyme, Abkürzungen und Fachausdrücke, die sowohl vom Anwender als auch von den IT-Umgebungen stammen. Abschnitt 4... Ist ein Englisch / Deutsches / Französisch Terminologieglossar, das genaue und einheitliche Übersetzungen gewährleisten soll. Abschnitt 5... Ist ein Englisch / Deutsches / Französisch Glossar aller Akronyme, die in der Projektdokumentation zu finden sind. ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page 10 of 70

11 MANAGEMENT SUMMARY 1.3. Français Objectif Ce document fournit un glossaire terminologique pour le projet d informatisation visant à : Assurer une compréhension commune des rapports du projet dans lesquels peuvent figurer des termes qui pourraient supposer une signification différente en fonction des pays qui lisent les rapports; Permettre aux nouveaux lecteurs de la documentation du projet de comprendre la terminologie utilisée; Définir la signification d expressions qui sont utilisées de manière répétitive, de sorte que même des lecteurs cultivés/avisés puisse acquérir une compréhension commune du sens dans lequel la terminologie est utilisée; Fournir une aide aux traducteurs et interprètes ; Pas comprendre les termes et définitions de la stratégie de déploiement. Ces termes font partie du PSS et de Plan de Migration. Ce document se concentre sur les entreprises et la terminologie technique. Résumé du document La structure du document reflète les objectifs cités plus haut. Section 2... Est une introduction au présent document dans laquelle sont spécifiés les lecteurs visés, l objectif du document et la gestion des changements Section 3... Contient les définitions de certains acronymes, abréviations et termes techniques qui proviennent de l utilisateur ainsi que des environnements IT Section 4... Est un glossaire terminologique anglais / allemand / français qui a pour but de garantir des traductions précises et cohérentes Section 5... Est un glossaire anglais / allemand / français de tous les acronymes rencontrés dans la documentation du projet. ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page 11 of 70

12 INTRODUCTION 2. Introduction 2.1. Intended Readership The intended readership for this document includes: Any person responsible for the functional and technical specification or implementation of the ; Any person responsible for the definition of tests for ; Any other authorized body concerned with the including: Committee on Excise Duties, Computerisation Working Party (ECWP), Computerisation Project (ECP) steering committee, external contractors, professional organisations of economic operators Purpose of the Document This document has been compiled for four main purposes: To ensure a common understanding of project reports, which may use terms that might assume a different meaning in relation to the reading countries; To enable new readers of project documentation to understand the terminology used; To define the meanings of expressions that are used repeatedly, so that even knowledgeable readers can achieve a common understanding of the sense in which the terminology is used; To provide an aid to translators and interpreters Changes to this Document According to the TEMPO methodology [R1], the elaboration of the Glossary of Terms is an on-going process during the project lifecycle resulting in frequent reviews. During this process, changes to the present document shall follow the Change Management Procedures described in [R2]. ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page 12 of 70

13 INTRODUCTION 2.4. References Ref. Identifier Title Version Issued/Ap proved by MSAs [R1] [R2] ITS-ITOC-001- Excise DG TAXUD TEMPO Quality Methodology Terms of Collaboration between the Central Project and the National Projects [R3] 2008/118/EC COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2008/118/EC of 16 December 2008 on the general arrangements for products subject to excise duty and repealing Directive 92/12/EEC RELEASE MAR /07/ /01/ /01/ erv.do?uri=oj:l:2009:009:0012:00 30:EN:PDF [R4] 1152/2003/EC DECISION n 1152/2003/EC of the EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT and of the COUNCIL of 16 June 2003 of computerising the movement and surveillance of excisable products. erv.do?uri=oj:l:2003:162:0005:00 08:EN:PDF [R5] ECP1-ESS-FESS Computerisation Project - Functional Excise System Specifications (FESS) 16/06/ /08/2010 [R6] ECP1-ESS-PSS Phasing and Scope Specification /06/2010 [R7] EXC-IPLN-MAP- CED563rev4 Master plan /06/2010 [R9] ECP1-ESS-SEP Security Policy /12/2009 [R10] EXC-ISLA-COS-001 Excise System SLA between DG TAXUD and Member States Service Level Agreement [R11] ECP1-ESS-SESS Security Excise System Specifications [R12] ECP1-ESS-TESS Technical Excise System Specifications /01/ /12/ /01/2007 [R13] ECP2-DEV- Migration Plan for Phase /04/2007 ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page 13 of 70

14 INTRODUCTION Ref. Identifier Title Version Issued/Ap proved by MSAs [R14] [R15] [R16] [R17] [R19] [R20] [R21] [R20] [R21] SC01-MP ECP2-DEV- SC02-SD ECP2-FITSDEV2- DDNEA ECP2-FITSDEV2- SC03-CTP SED-IRPT-CTD-019- CTO ECP3-DEV- SC02-SD ECP3-FITSDEV2- SC03-DDNEA_P3 ECP3-DEV- SC03-CTP CSMIS_-UMN- User Manual 2009/684/EC Scope Document for Phase /04/2008 DDNEA for Phase /08/2009 Conformance Test Protocol for Phase 2 Phase 2 Conformance Test Organisation Document Scope Document for Phase /02/ /08/ /02/2009 DDNEA for Phase /08/2010 Conformance Test Protocol for Phase /01/2009 CS/MIS for User Manual /02/2010 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 684/2009 of 24 July 2009 Implementing Council Directive 2008/118/EC as regards the computerised procedures for the movement of excise goods under suspension of excise duty iserv.do?uri=oj:l:2009:197:00 24:0064:EN:PDF Table 1: Reference Documents. 29/07/2009 ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page 14 of 70

15 DEFINITION OF TERMS USED IN THE COMPUTERISATION PROJECT 3. Definition of Terms used in the Computerisation Project 3.1. Typology of Contexts Figure 1 presents the typology of applicable contexts that is followed by the definitions listed in section 3.2. The background principle is that a definition applicable to a specific item is also applicable to its sub-items (if any). As an example, a definition applicable to the "General IT" context is also applicable to "IT Design", "IT Development", and "IT Support and Maintenance" contexts. Therefore, a definition applicable to the "General" context is applicable to all contexts of the proposed typology. Figure 1: Typology of Contexts. ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page 15 of 70

16 DEFINITION OF TERMS USED IN THE COMPUTERISATION PROJECT 3.2. Definitions Administrative Reference Code (ARC) Is the unique identifier of an electronic Administrative Document assigned by the competent authorities of the Member State of dispatch. The ARC of an electronic AAD (e-ad) always begins with the last two digits of the year of formal acceptance of the movement Acceptance Test A series of tests applied by the users of a new (or newly modified) computer application before the users accept that it meets their requirements. General IT Application Architecture Overview Application architecture overview is a high level description of the characteristics of the application systems that will be built to satisfy business requirements. General IT Asset An asset is a component or part of a total system to which the organisation directly assigns a value and therefore, requires protection. Assets encompass all of those items that contribute to the provision of information that an organisation requires in conducting its business. General Audit Trail A record of events, such as system access, network load, unsuccessful log-on attempts, and so on, that might have some relevance when investigating a security breach. Security Authentication Authentication defines the level of trust or trustworthiness of the parties involved in a transaction - it is the process of establishing the validity of a claimed identity. Security ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page 16 of 70

17 DEFINITION OF TERMS USED IN THE COMPUTERISATION PROJECT Authorisation In the security context, authorisation focuses on the actions permitted for an identity after authentication has taken place. Decisions concerning authorisation are and should remain the purview of the business process owner. Security Authorised Warehousekeeper A natural or legal person authorised by the competent authorities of a Member State, in the course of his business, to produce, process, hold, receive or dispatch excise goods under a duty suspension arrangement in a tax warehouse Availability Ability of a component or service to perform its required function at a stated instant or over a stated period of time. It is usually expressed as the availability ratio (%), i.e. the proportion of time that the service is actually available for use by the Customers within the agreed service hours Business Area A business area represents a subset of the business singled out for development or change activity. It is defined in terms of processes (group of activities), IT functions and organisations. Excise business is decomposed into several business areas including: Core business; Management of SEED and reference data; Follow-up and collaboration; System administration Business Process At its most generic, any set of activities performed by a business that is initiated by an event, transforms information, materials or business commitments, and produces an output. Value chains and large-scale business processes produce outputs that are valued by end-users (e.g. Economic Operator, MSA officers). Some other processes generate outputs that are valued by other processes. General IT Security General IT Business Process Model The business process model provides a breakdown (process decomposition) of all levels of business processes within the scope of General IT ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page 17 of 70

18 DEFINITION OF TERMS USED IN THE COMPUTERISATION PROJECT a business area. It also shows process dynamics, lower-level process interrelationships, etc. In summary it includes all diagrams related to a process definition that allows for understanding what the business process is doing (and not how it is doing it) Business Rule A Business Rule is a condition under which data items are created, related, and maintained Central Help Desk (CHD) The Central Help Desk (CHD) is a function of the Central Service Desk. The CHD provides a single point of contact for every National Help Desk (NHD). Issues are documented and resolved by CHD staff, referring to other project parties if necessary. General IT Central Project Team (CPT) The team, led by DG TAXUD, working together on the realisation of the central project, and taking overall responsibility for the Computerisation Project Central Service Desk (CSD) The Central Service Desk provides a single point of contact for NSDs. Incidents, Problems or Requests are documented, resolved or dispatched by CSD staff, referring to the level of support (first/second/third level support) needed Central Services/Management Information System (CS/MIS) A central web-based application operated by the Central Service Desk, which aims at collecting and processing statistics files (produced by the CCN/CSI Technical Centre (CCN/TC)) related to exchange of messages over the CCN/CSI network. Also referred to as Central Services/Management Information System for (CS/MISE) Central Services/Reference Data (CS/RD) A central operations office in the Common Domain where all shared information, such as the Excise Office List, are produced or consolidated and that is responsible for the consistent distribution of ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page 18 of 70

19 DEFINITION OF TERMS USED IN THE COMPUTERISATION PROJECT that information. Member State Administrations are responsible for ensuring that the Excise Office List in the CS/RD database is regularly updated with current data Centrally Developed Application (CDEA) A set of applications developed in common under the control of DG TAXUD and covering: Test applications for the validation of the Nationally Developed Applications (NDEA); and The applications developed for the Central Services Change of destination An action where the contents of the Destination fields of an e-ad are updated following a change of place of delivery (Art. 21(8) of Directive 2008/118/EC). Change of destination may change the journey time Committee on Excise Duty The Commission shall be assisted by a committee referred to as the Committee on Excise Duty. The Committee on Excise Duty shall, examine the matters raised by its chairman, either on his own initiative or at the request of the representative of a Member State, concerning the application of Community provisions on excise duty. (Ref art. 43 of the Directive 2008/118/EC [R3]) Combined Nomenclature Code (CN Code) The Combined Nomenclature Code is a unique reference value that is put into correspondence with the Excise Code, when an excise movement is also bound to a customs movement (import, export, or placement under any other customs procedure) Common Communications Network/Common Systems Interface (CCN/CSI) The CCN (Common Communications Network) is a private, Pan- European telecommunications network procured by DG TAXUD. It interconnects the national Taxation and Customs administrations through General COM ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page 19 of 70

20 DEFINITION OF TERMS USED IN THE COMPUTERISATION PROJECT the means of communication platforms (called CCN Gateways) installed in the national administrations and offering both synchronous (request/response) and asynchronous (message queuing) services. The CSI (Common System Interface) is a set of Application Programme Interfaces (APIs) and protocols allowing access to the CCN; it takes care of the inter-operability between the national platforms running European applications (e.g. AFIS, NCTS) and the CCN Gateway. The two sets of components have been bundled together to form the CCN/CSI network Common Domain (CD) The part of the, which consists of the CCN/CSI common components and services (including the physical gateways, the software linking them to the private Pan-European IP network) and every component that is under the responsibility of DG TAXUD (e.g. CS/RD, CS/MIS, etc.) Confidentiality The property that information is not made available or disclosed to unauthorized individuals, entities, or processes. General COM General IT Security Conformance Testing (CT) A series of centrally run tests using a test application, which must be undergone by every National Excise Application before beginning operation (initial or live) in the Conformance Testing Organisation Document (CTOD) The procedural and the organisational manual that is used for Conformance Testing Conformance Testing Protocol (CTP) The documented procedures for performing CT, which comprises the Conformance Test Organisation Document and the database of test cases Customs Office List (COL) A list containing details of all the customs offices within the customs ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page 20 of 70

21 DEFINITION OF TERMS USED IN THE COMPUTERISATION PROJECT territory covered by the Common Transit Convention, which are authorised to deal with transit movements. (A distributed database containing these details is a key component of the NCTS). The COL also mentions the customs offices authorised to deal with importation and exportation Design Document for National Excise Application (DDNEA) This document specifies the design requirements to which any Nationally Developed Application (NDEA) and Centrally Developed Application (CDEA) needs to conform. The purpose of this document is two-fold: To state unambiguously what needs to be developed. This will be achieved by specifying the sequences of Information Exchanges to be supported as a number of message exchange protocols and the detailed structure and building rules of these Information Exchanges. To define how the Information Exchanges need to be performed. Basically, every Information Exchange needs to be formatted (or represented) in XML representation and this formatted message needs to be transported between Excise Applications Direct Delivery The Member State of Destination may, under the conditions which it lays down, allow excise goods to be moved under a duty suspension arrangement to a place of direct delivery situated on its territory, where that place has been designated by the authorised warehousekeeper in the Member State of Destination or by the registered consignee (Art. 17(2) of Directive 2008/118/EC). That Authorised Warehousekeeper or that Registered Consignee shall remain responsible for submitting the Report of Receipt Duty Suspension Arrangement A tax arrangement applied to the production, processing, holding or movement of excise goods not covered by a customs suspensive procedure or arrangement, excise duty being suspended (Art. 4(7) of Directive 2008/118/EC) Economic Operator (EcOp) Economic Operator (EcOp) is a generic term that includes all stakeholders of the external domain, i.e.: Authorised Warehousekeeper; ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page 21 of 70

22 DEFINITION OF TERMS USED IN THE COMPUTERISATION PROJECT Reference Data; Registered Consignee; Registered Consginor Temporary Registered Consignee; Trans-European System (TES); Transporter; Guarantor; Exempted Consignee EDI EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) means, the transmission of data structured according to agreed message standards, between one computer system and another, by electronic means. The term standard message means a predefined structure recognised for the electronic transmission of data EDIFACT EDIFACT (EDI for Administration, Commerce and Transport) is an international standard developed under the auspices of the United Nations, which defines syntax rules and standard messages for the operation of EDI in the Administration, Commerce and Transport areas Electronic Administrative Document (e-ad) The administrative document is defined in Article 21(2) of Directive 2008/118/EC and in Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) 684/2009. In the context of, the AAD is embodied by the electronic AD (e-ad). General IT General IT Electronic Credentials Electronic Credentials bind an identity (and perhaps other attributes) to a token. Electronic credentials may be general-purpose credentials or targeted to a particular verifier. Some common types of credentials are: X.509 public key identity certificates bind an identity to a public key; X.509 attribute certificates that bind an identity or a public key with some attribute; Kerberos tickets that are encrypted messages binding the holder with some attribute or privilege; Trusted directory entries. Applicable Contexts Security ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page 22 of 70

23 DEFINITION OF TERMS USED IN THE COMPUTERISATION PROJECT Elementary Business Process (EBP) An elementary business process (EBP) represents the lowest level of process decomposition from a business perspective. An EBP may be manual, automated, or some combination of the two. An EBP is performed by one person or one process, at one location and one time. General IT Computerisation Project (ECP) The overall project launched to realise the Excise Movement Control System (). It consists of a Central Project co-ordinated closely with National Projects in all the MSA Encryption Encryption is the conversion of data into a form, called a ciphertext, which cannot be easily understood by unauthorized people. Security End-User A person who makes direct use of the application, e.g. Economic Operator or Excise Officer Escalation In a project, decisions are taken at the appropriate authorisation level. However, when a decision cannot be taken at a certain level (because the individuals at that level cannot reach a decision or do not have the mandate to take such decision), the task of taking this decision is brought (escalated) to the next / higher level Excise Application The totality of the applications, procedures etc. required for a Member State to implement (possibly in several steps) the functionality defined by the Functional Excise System Specifications. May include subsystems to manage excise movements, Guarantees, Excise Office List, etc Computerisation Working Party (ECWP) Working party set up by the Committee on Excise Duty to fulfil its duties in creating, setting up and running of. ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page 23 of 70

24 DEFINITION OF TERMS USED IN THE COMPUTERISATION PROJECT The ECWP is chaired by both R4 and C2 units of DG TAXUD and composed of the national IT representatives and national Excise experts of the Member States. It consists of a forum for discussion on the detailed business, IT and operational aspects of the ECP ( Computerisation Project) Excise Contact Group (ECG) Contact point with the European Federations of Economic Operators in the excise duties area. It consists in a working party as well as an information meeting Excise Duty Excise duty represents taxes on products, which are subject to the Community legislation in the field of excise (i.e. alcoholic products, energy products, and tobacco products). General Excise Liaison Office (ELO) The central liaison office designated by each MSA for contacts with other MSA in the field of administrative cooperation, management and surveillance of the procedures and systems for the movement of excisable products provided for Community legislation, etc Excise Movement and Control System () The decision n 1152/2003/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 June 2003 of computerising the movement and surveillance of excisable products [R4] provides the legal basis for the implementation of an Excise Movement and Control System (). The objectives of this system are both to eliminate the weaknesses of the current paperbased system (in the scope of the reduction of fraud) and to provide all partners with complementary services, in particular to bring real-time information during the excise movement to all actors of the project community Exempted Consignee A consignee that is authorised to receive excise goods under duty suspension arrangement and may enjoy exemption from payment of excise duties; it may be: ECP1-ESS-GLT-2 04 Page 24 of 70