After the start of the operations within the Multilateral System of the International Treaty, the Secretariat has developed a set of voluntary information technology tools to support the users in the drafting of the SMTA and in their reporting obligations.

In order to facilitate the reporting obligations of the provider of material, the Secretariat developed and published in November 2010 an information system that allows the online reporting at accession level for all Annex 1 crops. The information submitted through this system is kept confidential. The secretariat is also working on the development of a new service that will allow both the generation and the reporting in order to save both time and efforts.

In 2009 the Secretariat also released an easy-to-use stand alone software application to assist in the drafting of the SMTA in a semi-automated way (Gene-IT). The tool, developed in collaboration with CIRAD, is a stand-alone wizard program distributed in CD-ROM that can also be downloaded free of charge from the website.
 

Links:

• SMTA Online Reporting System
• Gene-IT (58.4 Mb, .exe file)
• Gene-IT Brochure