Close Menu
News

CAIT publishes traceability white paper

The Coalition Against Illicit Trade (CAIT) has published a white paper offering sector-by-sector guidance on Track & Trace and Authentication (TT&A) solutions.

Business Cases on To combat Illicit Trade and Counterfeiting includes a section on wine and spirits, alongside other industries affected by illicit trade including tobacco, electronics and jewellery.

In each business case, the paper analyses the industry-specific requirements and technical challenges in improving TT&A, while detailing benefits to businesses, consumers and public authorities.

While CAIT says it does not intent to be exhaustive in its work, the report offers a “work in progress” towards sharing best practice and knowledge.

The launch of the white paper follows a report from The International Trademark Association and the International Chamber of Commerce which claims the global economic value of counterfeiting and piracy could reach US$2.3 trillion by 2022.

Speaking at the white paper launch event at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Craig Stobie, director global sector management at printers Domino and CAIT co-founder, said: “CAIT is designed to bring together and share expertise amongst Europe’s leading providers of IT based solutions for tracking, tracing and authentication. In this paper we have collated our collective experience and that of others to robustly examine what makes a system work and the benefits it can bring.

“Our conclusions reiterate our coalition’s principles that effectively fighting the illicit trade relies on the authorities defining basic standards and then supporting, or at least encouraging, producers and supply chain operators to select the most appropriate technologies to fulfil TT&A standards, which best fit their respective industrial environments.

“Furthermore, any legislative framework at the national or international levels must be designed around the promotion of overarching technological architectures, which would enable interoperability across technological platforms, geographies and industry sectors.”

It looks like you're in Asia, would you like to be redirected to the Drinks Business Asia edition?

Yes, take me to the Asia edition No