Since Austrias accession to the European Union, businesses which trade with other Member States of the European Community are obliged to provide trade statistics to the Austrian Central Statistical Office (Ă–STAT). RCA takes care of the transmission of Intrastat data elements both for individual transactions and in connection with logistics packages.
Intrastathttp://www.uktradeinfo.com/index.cfm?task=intrastat is the system for collecting statistics on the trade in goods between countries of the European Union (EU). It began operation on 1 January 1993, when it replaced customs declarations as the source of trade statistics within the EU. The requirements of Intrastat are similar in all member states of the EU.