The TRACES network started up in April 2004 as a replacement for the older ANIMO and SHIFT networks. In the 1990s, according to the its first pillar, the European Union began studying how to provide a European-scale computer network dedicated to food safety and animal health with the aim of strengthening the single European market and the protection of consumers. There all goods of animal origin including live animals are checked in order to avoid outbreaks of zoonoses and epizooties.Īt the establishment of the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1958, each country used its own national legislation to set standards for the health of internationally traded animals and their products. Since the end of the nineteenth century, following the development of modern veterinary medicine and food safety, European states have built, in parallel with customs structures, veterinary inspection stations located at the borders known as Border Inspection Posts. 4.3 Management of non-EU countries' establishments lists.
