Automation has a hard boundary
Registration and validation cannot be automated away. Approval of an organisation is a human decision made by an administrator or competent authority, and it typically takes one to a few working days. What you can automate sits either side of that: the data you feed in, and the documents you prepare afterwards.
The manual core
TRACES NT is the European Commission's platform for certifying movements of animals, plants, food and feed, managed by DG SANTE under Regulation (EU) 2017/625. Access runs through EU Login, including two-factor authentication that must be enrolled by a person on a real device. No API replaces that.
Getting the manual core right first is the point of the TRACES NT access request steps covered in the iCustoms guide.
What is worth automating upstream
Document data extraction is the obvious candidate. iCustoms Intelligent Document Processing extracts data at 99% accuracy, which removes most of the transcription work before a CHED is prepared. Establishment code validation is another, and iTraces checks codes against the official TRACES database rather than relying on manual lookup.
What is worth automating downstream
Filing across multiple member states benefits from consistency. iCustoms supports EU customs filing across 22 EU nations, which matters when the same consignment data has to satisfy several national systems.
The rule of thumb
Automate data accuracy and repetition. Keep identity, role assignment and approval as deliberate human steps, because those are the ones auditors trace back.
See where iCustoms automation fits around the manual parts of TRACES NT. Watch a demo.
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