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Portuguese competent authority then reviews the documents and makes a decision regarding the application, i. e. issues a permit, requests additional documents or rejects the application.
Figure 3: Form generated for the creation of a new equivalence
The SPOCS semantic validator is a SPOCS module capable of validating data transferred from the Service Provider to a Competent Authority during the cross‐border application procedure. The SPOCS semantic validator is designed to work on the receiver’ s side( i. e. on destination country’ s Point of Single Contact / Competent Authority side). It returns validation results for the Competent Authority as an aid in the decision making process.
Figure 4: Technical architecture of components used in Semantic Pilot Lithuania – Portugal
The Semantic validator includes several modules. The Validator core module( java library) is capable of extracting application and document type definitions from the semantic model and runs validations using the
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