Integrating Digital Trade Infrastructure into the Union Civil Protection Mechanism
September 2025
This document, submitted by the DigitalTrade4.EU consortium, provides targeted feedback to the European Commission on its proposal COM(2025) 548 final for a new Regulation on the UCPM. We represent a pan-European coalition of 108 organisations’including trade associations, logistics providers, banks, insurers, and technology innovators’from 17 EU and 22 non-EU countries, united in our mission to advance legally sound, interoperable digital trade systems.
Keywords:
interoperability
eIDAS 2.0
Electronic Freight Transport Information (eFTI)
Import Control System 2 (ICS2)
decentralised systems
EU Customs Single Window
cross-border coordination
digital transformation
dual-use infrastructure
legal certainty
strategic autonomy
EU Digital Single Market
trusted digital infrastructure
UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR)
rescEU
interoperability
eIDAS 2.0
Electronic Freight Transport Information (eFTI)
Import Control System 2 (ICS2)
decentralised systems
EU Customs Single Window
cross-border coordination
digital transformation
dual-use infrastructure
legal certainty
strategic autonomy
EU Digital Single Market
trusted digital infrastructure
UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR)
rescEU
