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CHAPTER IV | |
INFORMATION SYSTEMS |
| Regional Centre on Commercial Information (CRIC) |
1 | Maintenance, improvement and updating of the macroeconomic, social and investment indicators module, with technical cooperation of international, regional, sub-regional and national organizations |
| Information Capture |
2 | Updating and maintenance of the Instruction Manual for correctly supplying statistical information of foreign trade; adoption of the Information Capture System and use of the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for transferring data |
3 | Technical Assistance to the Governmental Offices Responsible for Supplying Statistical Information on Foreign Trade |
| Information Processing, Access and Distribution |
4 | Updating and maintenance of computers, web infrastructure and software |
5 | Improvement, updating and maintenance of the Association’s INTRANET and of the Association’s website; presentation of a semestral report on the number of visitors to the website |
6 | Internal and external customer service (information and computer assistance demand) |
7 | Identification, analysis and technical processing of information for the maintenance and updating of the sections on agreements, preferences, tariffs, non-tariff measures, special import regimes and statistic information on Foreign Trade of the Information System on Foreign Trade (SICOEX). |
| Technological Support |
8 | Creation of a Telecenter at the ALADI aiming at spreading Latin-American integration through an international net with computing development based on open source software (free software and recycled hardware, subject to UNESCO’s technical and financial cooperation. |
9 | Study on the feasibility of the creation of a digital centre for transmitting events and having meetings on an IP platform through the Internet. |
10 | Improving and quarterly updating (July, October, December) of the Integrated Information System (SII in CD-ROM) |
| Library Services |
11 | Management, maintenance, digital and virtual development of the Library of the Association; Internal and external customer service |
| Thematic Databases |
12 | Maintenance and updating of the database of organizations and officers and their respective authorized signatures for issuing Certificates of Origin for goods |
13 | Maintenance and updating of the database of NALADISA’s Correlations (Nomenclature) with the national tariffs of the member countries or sub-regional integration organizations, as well as of the Dynamic System of Customs Nomenclatures’ Correlations (SICONA) |
14 | Identification of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures imposed to ALADI member countries’ trade. |
15 | Identification of technical rules and regulations, as well as consent evaluation procedures imposed to ALADI member countries’ trade. |
16 | Maintenance and updating of databases of access to markets of third countries Canada and the United States; and completion of the inclusion of data of the European Union in that database |
17 | Presentation and maintenance of the database of the market access conditions to the service market of ALADI member countries. |
18 | Compilation by subject of the regulations included in the agreements in force signed within ALADI’s framework for publishing them on the website. |
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