1. Definition
EUCARIS stands for “European Car and Driving Licence Information System”. The aim of the EUCARIS XML messages 4.1 is to support this system by providing a standard way to exchange data across all participating countries that have implemented it.
2. Objectives
- Standardised way of representing vehicles
- Approved by consensus by experts
- Used in Pan-European organisations
3. Owner
EUCARIS Participants Board developed the XML messages for the DG MOVE.
4. Intended audience
The primary audience for using EUCARIS XML messages is the signatories of the EUCARIS treaty and the countries using data from EUCARIS.
5. Long description
All information that is exchanged between the countries that take part in EUCARIS has been specified in the so-called XML message protocol. This means that each data-element has been described in a very exact way. The definitions of the data are derived from the EU directives and guidelines, if possible. Not only the interpretation of each data-element, but also the content of the data has been standardised, so each country will use the same code to indicate to other countries that a car is ‘blue’, even if in their own registry a completely different description or code is used.
Source: Mr Hens Peeters Weem, Workshop Session 1: Modernizing Vehicle Inspection / Workshop C: Mutual Recognition, 2009 CITA Conference, 13 ‐16 Oct. Gothenburg, Sweden , Global Challenges – Opportunities for Change
10 message types are available for EUCARIS:
1. Request to Core System Request message by Client
2. Request to Other Member State Request message by Core System of
this Member State
3. Request to Core System of this Member State Request message by
Core System of other Member State
4. Request to Legacy Register Request message by Core System
5. Request to Core System Request message by Legacy Register
6. Response from Core System Request message by Client
7. Response from Other Member State Request message by Core
System of this Member State
8. Response from Core System of this Member State Request message
by other Member State
9. Response from Legacy Register Request message by Core System
10. Response from Core System Request message by Legacy Register
6. Known implementations
35 participants have implemented EUCARIS. 112 centres across participants need to derive vehicle brand, model and other attributes from the vehicle information number. In 2009 6.6 million enquiries were created with only 18 participants.
7. How to participate
The specifications can only be changed by the EUCARIS Participants Board in consultation with the Member States. The acceptance of new Member States or a new functionality is under auspices of the EUCARIS Participants Board.
8. History / Key milestones
After EUCARIS treaty in 2000, the exchange of vehicle registration data is foreseen by the Prüm Decision, Council Decision 2008/615/JHA of 23 June 2008 on the stepping up of cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism and cross-border crime.
9. Additional documents
- EUCARIS treaty (art. 2, 4, 5, 7 and 9): https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/243311/7064.pdf
- Prüm Decision, Council Decision 2008/615/JHA: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/;jsessionid=LB6nTGtbpTDfnR0scrHT4ZTf76CdSTBSCJN65VqV1LvVCwMsv1tB!1306593838?uri=CELEX:32008D0615
