1. 1 International Trade and Business Processes Group (TBG ) Chair: Natascha Pottier Vice Chair: Chris Hassler Vice Chair: Michael Dill 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome; Italy TBG Closing Plenary April 24, 2009

2. TBG TBG Working Groups present in Rome 214th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome; Italy

3. TBG Working Groups 314th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome; Italy

4. TBG Results of the Week 414th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome; Italy

5. TBG1 Supply Chain Chair: Coen Janssen Vice Chair: Martin Forsberg Vice Chair: Dr. Kim Yong Jae Secretary: Gilles Brandel, Marieme Seydi

6. TBG1 Two permanent sub-teams were formed: Business Requirements Team Data Modelling Team Requirements management tool (wiki based) evaluated together with TBG14 agreed this could help improve consistency of BRS documents Meeting on BRS Despatch & Receive with TBG18 Comments discussed and will be resolved within the next few weeks 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy6

7. TBG1 Meeting on Cross Industry (CI) Invoice v2 Agreed on response to a letter from the European Expert Group on Electronic Invoicing jointly with TBG5 and TBG12 Worked on final additions for CI Invoice v2 Discussed future plans with TBG3, TBG6 and TBG8 Preparation work for 09B submission: will include: Market Research, CI Ordering, CI Catalogue, CI Scheduling Potentially: CI Despatch and Receive (Shipping) and CI Quotation 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy7

8. TBG3 Transport and Logistics Chair: Dominique Vankemmel, France Vice Chair: Yoshi Kito, Japan Vice Chair: Simon Spoormaker, Netherlands Secretary: Henk Van Maaren, Netherlands Liaisons : ISO/TCs 104,154,204 & 8, ANSI X12I, WCO

9. TBG3 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy9 Elections of TBG3 Officers: the current Chairs and two Vice-Chairs have been re- elected for a new mandate ending at the CEFACT Forum autumn 2010 Participate in the Stakeholders meetings regarding UNeDocs Report and discussion items from the TBG3 interim meeting in Geneva February 2009 including meeting officials from UN Transport Division Prepare new project proposals for individual transport multimodal processes based on the overall BRS for IFTM ( International Forwarding Transport) 1.Transport Status Reporting 2.Transport Instructions 3.Dangerous Goods Declaration 4.Waybill ( including Road CMR, Railways CIM, Maritime Bill of Lading..) Further developments will include: Manifest, Booking and Scheduling

10. TBG3 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy10 Prepare the next release Version 3 of the ITIGG worldwide implementation guidelines for EDIFACT and XML (General recommendations, Principles and Rules, business processes and message sets) Joint meetings with other groups: TBG1: e-Invoicing CII for freight invoicing TBG4: Customs: WCO Data model V3.0, GOVCBR, SAFE framework, UCR TBG6: Security project UBL TSC Transport Subcommittee: workplan, harmonization TSC submissions with CCL 08.B Schedule future work plan: TBG3 Interim meeting 29 June - 3 July in Paris and conference calls Presentation of current implementations and projects: Korea maritime XML, Swiss Freight Forwarders/GS1, France GESFIM and ASICOM….

11. Chair: Mats Wicktor Vice Chair: Satya Prasad Sahu TBG4 Customs

12. TBG4 Processing of ~100 DMRs with ATG1 including DMR for GOVCBR-message Attendance in BSP/UNeDocs-Stakeholder Meeting Sit-in with TBG3 Sit-in with TBG15 Sit-in on TBG14/TBG15 Trade Facilitation Model Project 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy12

13. Chair: Stig Korsgaard Vice Chair: Mark Sutton Vice Chair: Pierfranco Cei Secretary: James Whittle TBG5 Finance

14. TBG5 Work this week Review of TBG5 internal items and work Update on activities with relevance to TBG5 Joint meeting with TBG1 on Cross Industry Invoice V2 Coordinating activities with TBG1 on Remittance Advice Update on Forum development 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy14

15. TBG6 Architecture, Engineering and Construction Chair: Bernard Longhi Vice Chair: Jun-Ichi Yamashita Vice Chair: Chris Hassler

16. TBG6 TBG6 Participants in Rome coming from Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Taïwan, United Kingdom, United States… 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy16

17. TBG6 Work hosted by TBG6 during Rome Forum BRS RSM SCHEMAS eTendering (for public and private procurement) PSCPM (Project Schedule and Cost Performance Management) CFEM (Contract Financial Execution Management Security (for Messages and Documents) Work on v2 for D09A Tuesday 21 am Adoption v2 and V3 for D08B/D09A Monday 20 pm Work on BRS v2 Thursday 22 am Work on BRS v2 Wednesday 22 am + Inter-PG Work with MRI on “Restrictions requirements” and methodo Tuesday 21 pm + Invoice joint meeting with TBG1 Wednesday 22 pm 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy17

18. TBG6 Two follow-ups linked with MRI for Invoicing (CFEM) and eTendering projects Ad-hoc virtual workshop on CCTS/NDR V3.0 messages generation Initial discussion with ATG about links to “Implementation Packages” Preparation of eTendering v2 CRs, incl. feedback from real implementations and from the European CEN/BII project 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy18

19. TBG6 Preparation of PSCPM v2 CRs Security Project: progressing of two sets of functional requirements (“certification”, confidentiality); Collaboration of TBG6-TBG19 on a gap analysis regarding eNotification with existing UN/CEFACT eTendering Standard 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy19

20. TBG8 Insurance Chair: Andreas Schultz Vice Chair: Beth Grossman Secretary: Jan Vrijenhoek Liaison(s) : ACORD, eEG7

21. TBG8 Worked on general issues Discussion on how to integrate the national standards on a global level Integration of the insurers standards with the re-insurers standards Start discussion on integration of insurance processes into the Buy-Ship-Pay model Confluence website Joint Meetings with TBG1, 5, 17 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy21

22. TBG8 Worked on P6 project: Insurance Core Components Library Tools Publication Workplan Start harmonisation of Motor Claims data Continue work on Health Insurance Reimbursement 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy22

23. Chair: Akio Suzuki Vice Chair: Junny Ko TBG9 Travel, Tourism and Leisure

24. TBG9 Elections took place April 20, 2009 We have discussed and learned: Small scaled lodging house information project (Lodging house and product information ) Korean Travel Information System, developed in Korea and fully functioning in 2010 The coming standardization activity of its software products based on the UN/CEFACT Methodologies and Procedures 2414th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome; Italy

25. Chair: vacant Vice Chair: Edgar Glück TBG10 Healthcare

26. Chair: Michel Lesourd Vice Chair: Alain Bernard TBG12 Accounting and Audit

27. TBG12 27 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome; Italy Election TBG12 officers Accounting Entry message in CCL08B Accounting Chart of Accounts Submitted to TBG17 Harmonization F2F Amsterdam (Wish) Reporting (joint project TBG18) Submission to TBG17 foreseen shortly Accounting Message (joint project TBG18) BRS submitted this week to TBG StC …

28. TBG12 Ledger BRS development in progress Delegation to other TBG meetings TBG1 (CII - accounting ABIEs) Attending the meeting with TBG17 TBG18 New project: Journal: a new project to be approved by StC. XBRL GL Discover steps to map XBRL GL with TBG12 messages To be review with TBG17 April 24, 200914th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy28

29. TBG12 April 24, 200914th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy29

30. Chair: David Schwarz Vice Chair: Allan Adair Vice Chair: Glenn Miller TBG13 Environment

31. Chair: Niki Sahling Vice Chair: Colin Clark TBG14 Business Process Analysis

32. TBG14 Finalized BSP process model 2009A EA version of UMM compliant BRSs Achievements since 2008A: Catalogue, Waste Transport, Customs, Despatch and Receive Goods, Scheduling, Remittance Advice, Quotation Published on TBG14 HP the next days “International Trade Facilitation Model” joined project TGB14/15 Amended the proposal based on feedback we have received 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy32

33. TBG14 Meetings with other TBGs Procedure to use UMM & the BSP to produce BRS’s Ongoing cooperation for new/recent BRS’s Accounting Token (TBG12), Quotation (TBG1) MRI (Sunday and Tuesday) TBGs have agreed on a joined effort to do CII as a CCTS 3.0 Implementation Verification a.s.a.p. to support the 3.0 product suite Planning workshop (virtual?) dedicated to CII Implementation Verification Architecture of UN/CEFACT identified and discussed as one of the most important issues 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy33

34. Chair: Gordon Cragge Vice Chair: Jari Salo Vice Chair: Marianne Wong TBG15 International Trade Procedures

35. TBG15 Revision of existing and development of new UN/CEFACT Recommendations Recommendation 6, Annex for e-Invoicing Recommendation 34, Data Simplification and Standardisation for International Trade Recommendation 35, Legal Guidance for Single Window in International Trade Recommendation 12, Maritime Transport Documents – review current status of revision All Public Review (ODP Step 5) comments reviewed and where appropriate accepted Preparation of the Publication Drafts and request to Forum and Plenary to move to ODP Step 7 35

36. TBG15 Trade Facilitation Implementation Guide Meeting of the Project Team established improved management and communication process Reviewed latest versions of Guide package components Set realistic timetable for delivery and launch 36

37. TBG15 Development of International Trade Facilitation Model Joint meeting with TBG14 – Business Process Analysis Working Group. Poorly attended by TBG Working Groups Reviewed Project Proposal and agreed to new Purpose, Scope and Target Audiences Revised Project Proposal to be completed at interim meeting in May 2009 in London Submission to TBG Steering Committee and Forum Management Group for approval 37

38. TBG16 Entry Point & Web Site Chair : Alain Dechamps

39. TBG16 Met FPT, had fruitful discussions but timing was short. Have decided to have a conference call next Wednesday to finalize the TBG Work Flow comments review XML Change Request: Process of the first real CRs submitted to TBG6 ATG1: new TBG4 message went through with 90 other related DMRs 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy39

40. TBG17 Core Component Harmonisation Chair: Mary Kay Blantz Vice Chair: Hussam El-Leithy Vice Chair: Marion Royal Vice Chair: Hisanao Sugamata Secretary: Delta Pilgrim

41. Mission Responsible for consistency and harmonization of core components across business domains and sectors, contributing to a concise and well-defined glossary of business terms, business data semantic definitions, and structuring of data exchanges. TBG17 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy41

42. TBG17 TBG17 met for only two hours this week Very productive joint meeting with UBL Two Lunch & Learn Sessions F2F Meeting May 4-8, 2009 in Amsterdam 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy42

43. Chair: Bruno Prépin Vice Chair: Frans van Diepen TBG18 Agriculture

44. TBG18 eCERT Additionnal documentation for implementation NAPPO Conference : Electronic Phytosanitary Certification Workshop - 19-21 May, Ottawa, Canada Accounting Message BRS validated by TBG 18 / TBG12 and submitted to StC Dispatch and Receive Advice Joint Meeting with TBG1 Recommendations sent to TBG1 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy44

45. TBG18 Other Projects: Cattle Registration Information Exchange: BRS out for public review by May 6, 2009 – Harmonization to be done Data Exchange Proxy pending StC approval Discussion about the process of how to reach interoperability between UN/CEFACT, OGC and ISO Buy-Ship-Pay UNeDocs – 3 sessions attended to discuss linkages between Stakeholders 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy45

46. Chair: vacant Secretary (Acting): Sylvie Colas TBG19 eGovernment

47. TBG19 Ongoing projects eArchiving RSM to be circulated in September 2009 Submision to harmonsation process before end of 2009 Steering of joint project ePP (electronic Public Procurement) No need of a steering committee meeting Delays observed in CEN BII activity which impact the schedule Work continuing mainly in TBG1 and TBG6 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy47

48. TBG19 New proposal: eNotification Agreement reached between TBG 6 and 19 Proposal withdrawn from the TBG St agenda by TBG 19 Gap analysis to be performed by the eNotification team with TBG 6 project leaders of eTendering project Gap analysis results will be used as a basis for future decisions Target date: Before or at Sapporo Forum 14th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy48

49. TBG19 Vacancy of chairmanship: France can no longer assume Chairmanship and Secretariat No candidature received in Rome French proposal to maintain support to on-going projects and a representation of TBG19 in the Forum Sylvie Colas to act as acting secretariat (relation to TBG Steering and Forum processes for TBG19), and be present in forum meetings Main activity by correspondance and conference calls; physical meetings where necessary. Efforts continue to find candidates in collaboration with TBG Management April 24, 200914th UN/CEFACT FORUM – Rome, Italy49

50. THANKS TBG

51. TBG would like to express their sincere Thanks to Paula Heilig and Robert Lemense for their invaluable support over the many last years! 51

52. See you in Sapporo

53. 11 April 200812th UN/CEFACT FORUM - Mexico53 UN/CEFACT S IMPLE, T RANSPARENT AND E FFECTIVE P ROCESSES FOR G LOBAL B USINESS.