1. Country Stakeholder Perspectives Virginia Cram-Martos Director UNECE Trade and Timber Division U NITED N ATIONS C ENTRE F OR T RADE F ACILITATION A ND E LECTRONIC B USINESS United Nations Economic Commission for Europe UN/CEFACT

2. Slide 2 Countries need interoperable, intersectoral standards Business Government Ministries of trade, transport, etc. Customs, Border Control Agencies, etc. Big companies and associations in various sectors Exporters, importers, freight forwarders, software companies banks, SMEs etc.

3. UN/CEFACT Slide 3 Countries need Trade Facilitation TRADE FACILITATION “Simplification and standardisation of procedures and associated information flows required to move goods internationally from buyer to seller and to pass payment in the other direction” Customs Transport Regulatory agencies Freight Forwarders FinanceCustoms brokers Insurance Importers Exporters ……..

4. UN/CEFACT Slide 4 To Increase efficiency & competitiveness Government Business Ministries of trade, transport, etc. Customs, Border Control Agencies, etc. Big companies and associations in various sectors Exporters, importers, freight forwarders, software companies banks, SMEs etc.

5. UN/CEFACT Slide 5 The most requested priority: The Development of eBusiness Standards Including: e-Invoicing (6 countries) e-Procurement and e-Tendering (5 countries) e-Customs, (1 country) e-Phytosanitary certificates (1 country) e-Transport (1 country)

6. UN/CEFACT Slide 6 The 2 nd most requested priority: Implementation (6 Countries) As well as other, related priorities & opportunities: Developing more case studies (1p+3o) Increasing recognition, use and reference by national, regional & international organizations (2p) Providing more implementation assistance (3o) Increasing involvement by business and government (2p+1o) Trade facilitation (1p) WTO agreement implementation (1p)

7. UN/CEFACT Slide 7 Other Priorities requested by 3 or 4 Countries Single Windows and related recommendations Cooperation with UBL and migration from UBL Standardization & Standards supporting interoperability UN electronic Trade Documents (UNeDocs)

8. UN/CEFACT Slide 8 Priorities mentioned by 2 Countries Buy-Ship-Pay (entire supply chain) Establishment of Registry/Global trade data directory Policy Guidance from Governments to CEFACT Increased transparency, in particular more accessible information

9. UN/CEFACT Slide 9 Opportunities/Concerns mentioned by 4 to 8 countries Accelerate production of outputs (8) Preparing more information materials: Case studies, implementation examples, non-technical information (4) Clarifying UNeDocs next steps (4)

10. UN/CEFACT Slide 10 Opportunities/Concerns mentioned by 3 countries Improving Secretariat support: -For UN/CEFACT -For liaison -For support to national «Pro» organizations Looking at backward compatibility issues and the timing of releases Improving promotion and the website Providing more assistance to countries for implementation

11. UN/CEFACT Slide 11 Opportunities/Concerns mentioned by 2 countries Making more information available in Russian Increasing use/referencing by the European Commission Improving public sector input and participation Improving transparency

12. UN/CEFACT Slide 12 Opportunities/Concerns mentioned by 1 country Expanding the work to include other standards based on the core components technical specification Implementing IPR Task Team Report Recommendations Establishing a monitoring group to review project requests Implementing the electronic Business, Government and Trade (eBGT) project Making better use of current participants to promote UN/CEFACT recommendations

13. UN/CEFACT Slide 13 With other Standards Development Organizations: through the e-business MoU and, in particular, with ISO TC154, OASIS (its UBL group) and ISO 20022. With WCO: by reinforcing their participation and the MoU between UNECE and WCO With WTO: by reinforcing UN/CEFACT’s input and supporting any eventual agreement on trade facilitation With other international organizations: in the Global Facilitation Partnership for Trade and Transport with the World Bank, WCO, UNCTAD, ICC and UNIDO With other UN regional commissions UN/CEFACT Collaboration

14. UN/CEFACT Slide 14 Government Business UN/CEFACT = Government and Business Working Together

15. UN/ CEFACT SIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE PROCESSES FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS.