Message exchanges
1. Member States shall ensure that the eFTI Gates they establish, as well as the AAPs and user applications of their competent authorities, communicate and are able to receive communication in a standardised message exchange format. Communication between eFTI Gates and between eFTI Gates and eFTI platforms shall be done using the XML format.
2. All communication between the eFTI Gates shall take place as message exchanges through eDelivery Access Points, in compliance with the eDelivery message exchange specifications, and using the static discovery mechanism of eDelivery.
3. Message exchange through eDelivery Access Points, in compliance with the eDelivery message exchange specifications, using the dynamic discovery mechanism of eDelivery, shall also be enabled for the communication between the eFTI Gates and the eFTI platforms.
4. Where a Member State has already set in place equivalent, nationally defined, secure message exchange specifications for digital public services, it may decide to enable that communication between the eFTI platforms and the eFTI Gate established by that Member State may take place also based on such equivalent message exchange specifications. In such cases, Member States shall ensure that those specifications, duly detailed and up to date, are publicly available.
Security certificates
1. Member States shall issue security certificates, through a certificate authority, to the eDelivery Access Points integrated in the eFTI Gates they established, and to the eDelivery Access Points or, where applicable, to the equivalent message exchange access point of each eFTI platform that received certification from a conformity assessment body accredited in their respective Member State.
2. Member States shall ensure that the private security keys of the eDelivery Access Point integrated in the eFTI Gate(s) are securely stored and their corresponding digital certificates are delivered in a secure way between the eFTI Gates and between an eFTI Gate and the eFTI platforms connected to that Gate.
3. Member States shall ensure secure mechanisms for receiving, recording, retrieving and validating the public keys or security certificates of the eFTI platforms connected to their eFTI Gate. Where a Member State establishes an SMP registry in line with the eDelivery SMP specifications, with adequate security mechanisms, an SMP registry may be used for this purpose.
Registry of identifiers
1. The registry of identifiers referred to in Article 8(2)(a) shall allow the economic operators to upload, by means of an eFTI platform, the UIL of an eFTI data set together with the identifiers that allow the unique retrieval of that UIL, as listed in paragraph 3. The registry of identifiers shall enable the upload, activation, deactivation, or deletion of the UIL of an eFTI data set and of the respective identifiers.
2. The UIL composition shall allow the retrieval of the eFTI Gate identifier, the eFTI platform identifier, and the unique identifier of the eFTI data set corresponding to the regulatory information made available by the economic operators on the respective eFTI platform, where:
(a)
the eFTI Gate identifier shall be constituted by an identifier that allows it to be uniquely discovered in the eFTI environment;
(b)
the eFTI platform identifier shall be constituted by an identifier that allows it to be uniquely discovered in the eFTI environment;
(c)
the unique identification of the eFTI data set shall be constituted by a unique number in the format of a Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) allocated automatically by the eFTI platform.
3. The identifiers to be supported by the registry shall consist of:
(a)
data elements of the eFTI data set corresponding to the regulatory information made available by the economic operators, as described in Section 2 of the Annex to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/2024, with the following identification numbers:
(i)
eFTI39;
(ii)
eFTI188;
(iii)
eFTI374;
(iv)
eFTI378;
(v)
eFTI448;
(vi)
eFTI581;
(vii)
eFTI578;
(viii)
eFTI618;
(ix)
eFTI620;
(x)
eFTI987;
(xi)
eFTI1000;
(b)
a data element indicating whether or not dangerous goods are being transported, to be identified with the following characteristics: data element ID ‘eFTI1451’; name ‘Dangerous goods on board indicator’; definition ‘The indication of whether or not dangerous goods are being transported according to ADR/ADN/RID. “Yes” means that dangerous goods are on board the transport unit, “No” means that the goods being transported are not on the ADR/ADN/RID list of dangerous goods or the dangerous goods are exempted from the information requirements as stipulated in 3.5.6, 5.1.5.4.2, 5.4.1, 5.5.2.4.1 or 5.5.3.7 ADR/ADN/RID.’
4. The registry of identifiers shall activate the UIL, to make it available for queries, upon upload, and deactivate it when the identifier referred to in paragraph 3(a)(ii) of this Article is uploaded. To enable checks in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009, for each UIL for which the identifier indicated in paragraph 3(a)(vi) of this Article has the value ‘3’, corresponding to ‘road transport’, the registry of identifiers shall deactivate the UILs only after the period of time referred to in Article 8(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009. Upon deactivation, the registry shall delete the UIL and the identifiers connected to it.
