Interchange of data between administrations - Agricultural sector The European Commission, DG VI, has launched an open call to tender for services, including telematics, data organization, user-support and network organization, relating to the interchange of data between agricultural administrations in the European Union. The call involves ... The European Commission, DG VI, has launched an open call to tender for services, including telematics, data organization, user-support and network organization, relating to the interchange of data between agricultural administrations in the European Union. The call involves six lots under the sectoral project PHYSAN: - Lot 1: Europhyt "PHY": extensions to the existing notification management system, PHY: . Complete the electronic messaging module for the input to, and interrogation of, the PHY database; . Foresee the use of standard messaging (Edifact); . Integration with the infrastructural and service strategies of DG VI and IDA; . Enlargement of the existing PHY database in order to treat new notification types, which will include the creation of new database entities; - Lot 2: PHYSAN support: service procurement for support, management and training for the PHY production database, and the PEST production database; - Lot 3: Catalogues/management: analysis, development and implementation of a database system in order to assist in the management of the Common Catalogues of Agricultural Species, Vegetables and Plants (Directives 70/457/CEE and 70/458/CEE), and particularly in view of the construction of an interchange structure with the partners; - Lot 4: Catalogues/interchanges: integration of the production dissemination database delivered from lot 3 in order to allow the storage, exchange and comparison of the variety descriptions; - Lot 5: Catalogues/access: implementation of a retrieval server, with advanced search by selection possibilities; - Lot 6: Pesticides IV: the existing version of the pesticides application covers the needs of the active substance inclusion programme, those of the maximum-residues-level fixing programme and the needs of Article 12 of Directive 91/414/EEC. The phase covered by this lot is to embrace a volet concerning the monitoring mechanisms and the inclusion programme for new active substances. Requests for further information, and completed tenders, should be sent to: European Commission DG VI - Agriculture Unit A/4 200 rue de la Loi B-1049 Brussels
