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Trade Single Window Operator: The organisation, which can be a private or a public entity or a Private Public Partnership (PPP), that has the legal responsibility for the operations of a Single Window within a country or region and which ensures the availability, continuity and integrity of the Single Window within that remit. In this context the Single Window enables parties involved in international trade and transport to lodge standardised information and documents at a single place and ensures a response via the Single Window. Whilst paper based Single Window operations do exist and deliver advantages compared to addressing multiple agencies, the benefits within an electronic environment are multiple and enable faster handling of the information and enable the implementation of the 'once only' principle, which ensures that information has to be submitted only one to the authorities, who can access this information on a need to know basis.