Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA) has been awarded the World Summit on the Data Society (WSIS) Award, one of many initiatives issued by the United Nations Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), within the enterprise class. The award has recognised ADAFSA’s excellence in innovating and implementing the Meals Import and Export Administration Data System (FIEMIS), which serves as a unified portal for meals importers and exporters.
The award was introduced throughout a ceremony held on the WSIS Discussion board, organised on the ITU headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
FIEMIS helps importers and exporters obtain and monitor their requests, and facilitates procedures for imported meals merchandise based mostly on the database out there to ADAFSA and its companions.
FIEMIS provides a service for releasing imported meals shipments earlier than they arrive on the port and supplies a characteristic for monitoring import and export requests, which facilitates meals commerce and enhances the attractiveness of importing by means of Abu Dhabi’s ports. Moreover, the system permits importers and exporters to finish seven companies offered by ADAFSA electronically to ease the import and export of meals merchandise. The companies vary from requesting the registration of meals importing corporations, registering imported meals merchandise, import requests, export certificates, and meals destruction certificates, to inspection requests for meals shipments, and linking them to the customs declaration request to finish the customs procedures for the meals cargo in coordination with the Basic Administration of Abu Dhabi Customs (Abu Dhabi Customs).
Ther award displays ADAFSA’s excellence in creating digital infrastructure and selling know-how use to realize its objectives. It additionally confirms the continual efforts to realize excellence and innovation in serving the group, guaranteeing meals security, and attaining meals safety.
The award is a part of a sequence of achievements by ADAFSA aimed toward realising its imaginative and prescient of creating a sector with sustainable development in agriculture and meals security, and defending plant and animal well being, thereby contributing to enhanced biosecurity and meals safety.