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This paper presents the outcome of a project aimed at developing a system for the management of the information flow regarding the approval and supervision of pre and post-arrival animal quarantine station. In particular, the paper outlines the project strategies and issues identified during the implementation process of a GIS based application in an organisation characterised by a low level of GIS maturity. The tools used for the Business Case evaluation, the assessment of the organisational and technological capacity, the architecture of the webGIS application used for the pilot study and the protocol developed for the quarantine station performance evaluation are presented.
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Risk analysis is an approach to assess both the likelihood and consequences of undesirable events, known as hazards, and used to support decision-making in the face of uncertainty.
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The risk assessment process consists of four interrelated steps: (i) Release assessment, (ii) Exposure assessment, (iii) Consequence assessment, and (iv) Risk estimation.
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The factors considered in the release assessment analysis are: biological (i.e. species, quarantine), country (i.e. incidence, prevalence), and commodities (i.e. quantity of commodities, effect of processing) [5].
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Decree of General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China No. 122 “Administrative Measures for the Supervision on the Use of the Quarantine Station of Entry animals” of October 22, 2009.
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CAIQ is a national public institute that provides technical support to the policy-making related to inspection and quarantine for China’s central government, and provides technical assistance to the law enforcement duties of the AQSIQ.
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PRINCE2: acronym for PRojects IN Controlled Environments - https://www.prince2.com.
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Control Practices: Guidance to Achieve Control Objectives for Successful IT Governance (2nd Edition).
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Respectively Phase 1: Preparatory activities - Activity 1.2 Baseline assessment of CAIQ GIS organisation and capacity Phase 2: Capacity building - Activity 2.1. Training of two CAIQ scientists on GIS planning at the IZSVe Parent Institute.
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The results of the assessment exercise is a proprietary and confidential document, therefore it is not possible to disclosed it in any part.
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Ferrè, N. et al. (2016). GIS Applications to Support Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Activities. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2016. ICCSA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9788. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42111-7_8
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