Building the EU Business Registers Interconnection System (BRIS) model based on the Core Vocabularies and their associated syntax mappings leads to a number of benefits:

• Reduced the development costs of the project as the Core Vocabularies can be used as a pattern for the common classes.
• Improve the integration of BRIS information with data from other systems that also use the same Core Vocabulary, e.g. State Aid notification data.
• Provided a set of techniques that improved the efficiency of the project team. During the adoption process, the BRIS team gained experience by:
• following standards which has enhanced interoperability of the resulting data model;
• following naming and design conventions and achieving semantic interoperability i.e. renaming data model elements based on the Core Vocabularies naming conventions;
• solving technical issues and conflicts by following the Handbook for the Core Vocabularies;
• converging towards a common mind-set for achieving semantic interoperability.
• The adoption of the Core Vocabularies will allow BRIS to be easily extendible in the future.

To know more about BRIS and the use of the Core Business Vocabulary, have a look at the case study "EU Core Vocabularies in action: Using Core Business Vocabulary in the EU Business Registers Interconnection System (BRIS)".

About BRIS

The limited cross-border access to information about business that is often not up-to-date,
results in a risky business environment for consumers and business partners, and reduces
legal certainty.

The European Commission is setting up a European Central Platform, i.e. BRIS, to provide
access to company data and to ensure an interoperable communication of company
data between interconnected registers (Directive 2012/17/EU).

BRIS facilitates the distribution of information from each of the Member States’ business
registers to the registers of other Member States in a standard message format and in the
relevant language version.

About the Core Business Vocabulary

The Core Business Vocabulary is a simplified, reusable and extensible data model that captures the fundamental characteristics of a legal entity, e.g. the legal name, the activity, address, legal identifier, company type, and its activities. On 8 January 2013, the RDF syntax of the Core Business Vocabulary has been formally published on the W3C standards track as a Public Working Draft. It has been revised and renamed into Registered Organization Vocabulary.

The latest version of the Core Vocabularies can be downloaded from https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/solution/e-government-core-vocabularies.