A practical guide to understanding and implementing eFTI (Electronic Freight Transport Information) compliance for logistics platforms and operators.
The eFTI Regulation (EU 2020/1056) mandates that Economic Operators (carriers, forwarders, etc.) submit transport data in machine-readable format via certified platforms when requested by authorities.
Key Requirements:
- Digital submission of transport information to authorities
- Compliance across four transport modes: road, rail, inland waterways, air
- Data integrity and non-repudiation
- Authority access and verification capabilities
Certification Deadline: July 2027
- Understand eFTI requirements and scope
- Review Delegated Acts and implementation guides
- Assess current processes vs. regulatory requirements
- Identify compliance gaps
- Data collection and standardization
- System architecture design
- Authority access mechanisms
- Testing and validation
- Pre-certification testing
- Security and penetration testing
- Regulatory submission
- Ongoing compliance monitoring
- Authentication and authorization
- Secure data transmission
- Access logging and audit trails
- Rate limiting and security controls
- Machine-readable transport information formats
- Metadata tagging and classification
- Cross-border data consistency
- Version management
- Document hashing and integrity verification
- Tamper-proof audit logs
- Non-repudiation mechanisms
- Timestamp verification
- Encryption and key management
- Selective data disclosure
- Operator confidentiality protections
- Regulatory transparency balance
- Register with certified eFTI platform
- Digitalize transport documentation processes
- Implement required data fields
- Test authority submission workflows
- Train staff on new processes
- Achieve certification compliance by deadline
Last Updated: May 2026. Compliance requirements subject to regulatory updates.