TRACES Toolkit

Accessing the TRACES [1] CIRCABC [2] IG [3] through the EU Login [4]

Introduction

The TRAde Control and Expert System' Interest Group, also referred to as the TRACES Toolkit, is a public information platform published onto the 'Communication and Information Resource Centre for Administrations, Businesses and Citizens' (CIRCABC) and accessible through the following URL:

https://circabc.europa.eu/w/browse/ac0bd3d2-66ae-4234-b09c-a3fa9854acfd

The TRACES Toolkit assists you in identifying the different available user manuals, videos, templates, etc. in order to clarify the functional TRACES modules, tools, goals and objectives in regards to its target groups.

Public access

As the TRACES Toolkit has been made available to the public, you do not require an EU Login account to consult the information.

Locating the TRACES Toolkit

Depending on some conditions, e.g.: accessing CIRCABC from inside or outside the EU Commission, being logged in before with an EU login account or not, the type of internet browser and specific settings used, you may be redirected to the CIRCABC root, where you find all CIRCABC categories:

https://circabc.europa.eu/w/browse/88df23bb-049b-475e-801d-ad3c921813c7

The TRACES Toolkit is to be located into the 'European Commission' section:

"Health and Food Safety".

Direct link:

https://circabc.europa.eu/w/browse/ac0bd3d2-66ae-4234-b09c-a3fa9854acfd

You may find the TRACES Toolkit in the 'Public Access' section of the 'Health and Food Safety' Category, sorted alphabetically at the bottom of the list:

Optional notification – joining the TRACES IG

If you would like to be notified automatically about updates and receive notifications messages, or have the TRACES Toolkit IG into your list of CIRCABC preferred shortcuts, you may want to join the TRACES Toolkit IG, by clicking to the icon on the right of the IG .

The following page will be shown:

In order to join any CIRCABC IG, you need to have an EU login account.

1/ If you have already an EU Login account, you may click the 'Connect using ECAS' button on the left. You will be requested to login:

2/ If not, you may sign up to EU Login first by clicking the 'Create account' button on the right. Feedback on this issue can be found in the following user manual.

To apply for Membership to the TRACES Toolkit IG, you may briefly introduce your application [5]

A notification message will be sent to the TRACES Toolkit IG Administrator:

As soon as the TRACES Toolkit IG Administrator has approved your application, you will be notified by e-mail:

You will see the TRACES Toolkit link into your shortcuts 'Member Access':

Visualising the information

You can visualise the documents and information as published in two ways; by the 'Information' and 'Library' sections:

  1. Information:
    A visualisation of the information by means of a 'flip book'.
    This visualised gateway to all published information, guides the huge variety of TRACES user groups in their quest for specific documents, dedicated to their needs.

Note: Depending on any pop-up blockers, you might need to confirm your choice, by the 'Click here to open the information about the Interest group' hyperlink:

  1. Library:
    A more extensive view of all documents in a 'windows explorer' kind of format. This view ensures the visualisation of all documents sorted by maps, also called 'Spaces'.

The EXPORT empty certificates (for example) can be found in the 'Certificate models' > 'EXPORT' maps. [6]:

Direct link:

https://circabc.europa.eu/w/browse/0a663872-5ec8-43db-80ea-618bc3bc3eeb

If you open one of the Spaces as shown, you will notice that the content is displayed into the 'Content' section of such a space. Depending on the number of documents displayed, you might need to browse the pages.

Note: a breadcrumb - hyperlink is indicated on top of the page to find your way throughout the TRACES Toolkit IG.

More information:

/ TRAde Control and Expert System (TRACES)
European Commission
Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety
TRACES Sector
B232 07/014
B-1049 Brussels
Tel.: +32 2 297 63 50

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[1] TRAde Control and Expert System

[2] Communication and Information Resource Centre for Administrations, Businesses and Citizens

[3] Interest Group

[4] Formerly known as European Commission Authentication Service (ECAS)

[5] Optional feature

[6] Also called 'Spaces' (in CIRCABC)