A training session for the inspectors of the Albanian Food Agency (NFA: Autoriteti Kombëtar i Ushqimit) in charge of export certification and import control of all foodstuffs and of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Water Management in charge of export certification of live animals and by-products was organized by TAIEX from 18 to 21 April. This session followed a first training session organised in July 2014.

12 veterinary units and 14 border inspection posts have been established and 15 border inspectors, 13 AKU export certifiers, 2 AKU supervisors and 12 economic operators representing 10 companies have been trained. Under the impulse of the new general manager, the use of TRACES began on 19 April.

As part of the gradual lifting of the sanctions imposed on Iran since 2003 following the signature of the Vienna agreement between Iran and the 'P5 + 1' (United States, Russia, France, United Kingdom and Germany) on 14 July 2015, a training workshop was organised in Tehran from 8 to 11 May for Iran Veterinary Organization (IVO) certifiers and export companies. 20 people from IVO (12 certifiers from 11 provinces, 8 from the central level) and 18 representatives from exporting companies were trained. The 32 administrative provinces of Iran were created in TRACES.

A training workshop for Member States on the border control module for animals, foodstuffs and animal feed organised under the Better Training for Safer Food (BTSF) Program was held in Vilnius from 13 to 16 June. 23 Member States ( Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden) and two third countries (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia) participated.

The most critical Member States request is the removal of duplicates in TRACES. They would also like some reference data (animal species, postal codes) to be updated, the categories of samples to be identical to those of RASFF, the activity type for 'animal by-product carrier' should be created only in case of transhipment, the first BIP can complete only the documentary part and that the second transitair can be notified, have access to the CVED and initiate the second CVED, make available an alternative website in case of TRACES unavailability to have the necessary path to follow and required certificates, to add national requirements for "non-harmonised" products into the help to decision tab.

A training workshop for Member States on the TNT plant border control module organised under the Better Training for Safer Food (BTSF) Program was held in Marseille from 4 to 7 July. 9 Member States (Spain, Estonia, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland and Slovakia) participated, an EFTA Member State (Switzerland) and three third countries (Ivory Coast, Costa Rica and Morocco).

The workshop concerned exclusively  the TNT and revealed some corrections to be made (additional superfluous guarantees, random difficulty of addition of goods, absence of integration of the attachments in case of replacement, elastic research not generalised) and to register specific applications (wood packaging and species (hardwood and conifer) and description of packaged goods, integration of transitairs in PHYTO, search by transitairs for PHYTO, selection of a second transitair in case of transhipment, transfer of transitair users  from TRACES to TNT).