UN Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) UN/CEFACT – Overview

Objectives o Simple, transparent and effective processes for global business o Efficient and automated exchange of information Outputs o Global Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business Recommendations and Standards Means o Public Private Sector Partnership – over 200 experts from government and business o Meet virtually every week plus two Forums per year Global Remit UN/ECOSOC UNECE UN/CEFACT UN United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT)

Outreach and Support UN/CEFACT’s deliverables

Commercial Procedures Establish Contract Order Goods Advise On Delivery Request Payment Packing Inspection Certification Accreditation Warehousing Commercial Procedures Establish Contract Order Goods Advise On Delivery Request Payment Packing Inspection Certification Accreditation Warehousing Transport Procedures Establish Transport Contract Collect, Transport and Deliver Goods Provide Waybills, Goods Receipts Status reports etc. Transport Procedures Establish Transport Contract Collect, Transport and Deliver Goods Provide Waybills, Goods Receipts Status reports etc. Regulatory Procedures Obtain Import/Export Licences etc Provide Customs Declarations Provide Cargo Declaration Apply Trade Security Procedures Clear Goods for Export/Import Regulatory Procedures Obtain Import/Export Licences etc Provide Customs Declarations Provide Cargo Declaration Apply Trade Security Procedures Clear Goods for Export/Import Financial Procedures Provide Credit Rating Provide Insurance Provide Finance Execute Payment Issue Statements Financial Procedures Provide Credit Rating Provide Insurance Provide Finance Execute Payment Issue Statements INVOLVES Prepare for Export ExportTransport Import SHIPBUY PAY Prepare for Import Source: The UN/CEFACT International Supply Chain Reference Model UN/CEFACT International Trade Transaction Model

New Bureau structure Recommendations Area ITP-PDA Int’l Trade Procedures Single Window TFA Focal Point TFIG Focal Point ITPD SWD Creates, Maintains, Advices on … recommendation development Standards area Sectoral PDA Regulatory PDA Buy/Pay PDA Finance & Payment Procuremt Supply Chain Mgmt Accounting / Audit Environmt Mgmt e- Governmt Agriculture Insurance Travel & Tourism Utilities F+P PROC SCM A+A ENV EGOV AGRI INS T+T UTIL Ship PDA Transport & Logistics Customs T+L CUST Code List Focal Point CODE UNLOCODE Focal Point LOC Validation VAL Creates, Maintains, Advices on … business and technical standards developement Support area M+T PDA Specificat° (CCTS, UMM, NDR) Syntax (XML, EDIFACT, SBDH, Data Type Catalogue) Library Maintenance SPEC SNTX LIB Creates, Maintains, Advices on … the support tools for the other areas of activity

Bureau activities Since the 21st Plenary: 26 regular Bureau calls 3 face to face meetings 9 Terms of Reference (ToRs) developed:

UN/CEFACT structure, mandate, ToR and procedures Election Procedure for the UN/CEFACT Bureau Executive Guides on UN/CEFACT deliverables ToR Project Review and Support Function ToR Domains & Domain Coordinators ToR Liaison with other organizations ToR UN/LOCODE Focal Points Update to the Open Development Process Country HoD: Guidance on responsibilities, duties & procedures

UN/CEFACT Prospective Directions Provides direction for future UN/CEFACT work Progressing Trade Facilitation and supporting its implementation Providing semantic interoperability Developing further guidance and standards Updating existing deliverables Comprehensive deliverables based on the B-S-P model Improving communication and enlarging participation Enhancing cooperation with other UN bodies Enhancing collaboration with other standards bodies through bilateral agreements Seeking new cooperation with other standards bodies without bilateral agreements

Focus for the coming years Contribution of UN/CEFACT work to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Support for WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement MoU with ITC and UNCTAD (April 2015) MoU with IATA (May 2015)

International Trade Procedures Domain (ITPD) Recommendation 4 – National Trade Facilitation Bodies (NTFB) Originally written in 1974 Previous revision dated from 2001 Was updated to help implementation of WTO TFA Associated with the work of other standards organizations such as Recommendation 40 – Consultation Approaches Important contribution to help further implementation of the WTO TFA. Provides some best p ractices and a tool box for implementation.

Ongoing/New Projects: Recommendation on Public Private Partnership in Trade Facilitation Review of Recommendation 1 – United Nations Layout Key (UNLK), Upcoming Work / Projects Recommendation on Trade and Transport Facilitation Monitoring Mechanism (TTFMM) to monitor the effectiveness of policies and procedures that facilitate trade and speed up international shipments Recommendation on Women in Trade Facilitation International Trade Procedures Domain (ITPD)

Single Window Domain (SWD) Recommendation 36 – Single Window Interoperability (SWI) (ready for public review) the Recommendation addresses Cross-Border and Regulatory SW Interoperability issues: Business needs, Governance, Semantics, Legal Upcoming work / projects Systematically Important Single Window Systems (SISWS) Key vocabulary around Single Window Self Assessment Model

Buy/Ship PDA Finance and Payment Domain Revised Remittance Advice Project Purchase Order Financing Request Project Integrating Trade Finance and Supply Chain Finance into Trade Facilitation Project Supply Chain Management Domain Supply Chain Reference Data Model Semantic links UN/EDIFACT - UNTDED Guidelines production of message structures (CCBDA v1.0) Procurement Domain Background Research on Public procurement Using international Standards

Ship Domain Verified gross mass (VERMAS) project Multi-Modal Transport Reference Data Model Close collaboration with the Supply Chain Reference Data Model (SCRDM) project FAL Compendium alignment and harmonization

Regulatory PDA eGovernment domain Ensuring Legally Significant Trusted Transboundary Electronic Interaction Cyber Security Environment domain Transboundary Movement of Waste (Basel Convention) Accounting and Audit domain Journal Book

Sectoral PDA - Agriculture Domain Standard messages : e-CERT phyto and veterinarian sanitary certificate G2G e-Daplos, e-CROP, agro product information message B2B Animal identification and e-Animal passport G2G Dispatch advice (batch number, identification) B2B Traceability Traceability becoming an important instrument in international trade Track and Trace Animals (and Plant and Product) Coding Product (EPC, Codex Alimentarius) Location and Party identification (GLN, Blue number, ) Certification Authority, NGO, Private business (GlobalGap, Organic, Sustainable, CITES, Standard Maps ITC... ) Integration of domains e-Invoicing (in fish, cutlowers, fresh fruits and vegetables) Transport and location (GN codes – GS1) CITES e-permits Production, Trade and Retail

Methodology & Technologies PDA Conformance Project The project defined what conformance to UN/CEFACT standards entails and how it can be measured 2 projects proposed Review and update clear conformance clauses for every standard and technical specification Establish, possibly in cooperation with other organizations, a conformance registry where users, software developers, and SDOs can make their self- declaration of conformance visible

UNECE – United Nations Economic Commission for Europe UN/CEFACT – UN Centre for Trade Facilitation and e-Business 18 tfig.unece.org A web-based interactive tool in a wikipedia style available in Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish Purpose: Present concepts, standards and recommendations that can help simplify trade throughout the International Supply Chain. Target: Policymakers, technical experts, from governments, businesses and international organizations

Short but comprehensive document laying down a strategic vision for trade facilitation reforms in a given country and within a given period

UN/LOCODE Release No.Issue Date July December 2015 In 2014, UN/LOCODE estimated to be used for almost 1.5 billion times for international trade.

Support to UN/UCEFACT technical work … in six months: Core Component Library Processed some 15,000 messages UN/EDIFACT Processed 236 DMRs UN/CEFACT XML 113 messages schemas for 113 messages 22

Confluence

Upcoming meetings 28 th UN/CEFACT Forum, Bangkok, Thailand September th UN/CEFACT Forum, Geneva, Switzerland March rd UN/CEFACT Plenary, Geneva, Switzeland 3- 4 April 2017