The Italian Ministry for Economic Development - Department of enterprises and internationalization, with Communiqué Prot. n. 20090031342 of 24 April 2009, informs that starting from 17 April 2009 a new area is available on its web site (www.mincomes.it), where operators can find all the information available on import/export licensing procedures, as well as on anticipated refunds on agricultural products.

With particular regard to agricultural products, import/export operations with third Countries falling within the common organisation of agricultural markets (Council Regulation n. 1234/07 of 22.10.2007) are subject in some cases to the release of a special import or export license issued (in Italy) by the Italian Ministry for Economic Development - Department of enterprises and internationalization, under the conditions set forth by Commission Regulation n. 376/08 of 23.04.2008.

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Italian Customs have developed in their website an area where the main characteristics of the new system based on the use of the radio-frequency technologies are illustrated. Such a system, called "Il Trovatore" is based on the RFId technologies (the acronym stands for "Radio-Frequency Identification") and is aimed to control the integrity and the electronic tracking of the container movements, in order to optimize the goods flow, guarantee a better use of the stockage areas (so reducing the costs of logistics) and simplify the clearance formalities. This is supposed to improve the control of the commercial traffic in the complex.

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