UN/CEFACT 25th Plenary Session

Bureau Report

8 & 9 April 2019Geneva, Switzerland

Agenda Item 4:Bureau overview of developments

• Document symbol: CEFACT/2019/INF.1• Ms. Sue Probert, Chair UN/CEFACT• Ms. Estelle Igwe, Vice Chair, ITP-PDA• Mr. Raffaele Fantetti, Vice Chair, ISC-PDA• Mr. Ian Watt, Vice Chair, ISC-PDA• Mr. Tahseen Khan, Vice Chair, Regulatory PDA• Mr. Harm Jan van Burg, Vice Chair Sectoral PDA• Mr. Anders Grangard, Vice Chair, M+T PDA

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Agenda Item 4:Bureau structure since May 2018

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ITPPDA

International Supply ChainPDA

RegulatoryPDA

SectoralPDA

M+T PDA

SyntaxFocal Point

TFA Focal Point

Int’l Trade ProceduresIT

PD Single WindowSW

D

Finance & PaymentF+

P

Supply-Chain &

Procuremt

SC+P

Accounting / AuditA+

A

Environmt MgmtEN

Ve-GovernmtEG

OV

AgricultureFisheries & Agri food

AGRI

InsuranceINS

Travel & TourismT+

T

UtilitiesUTI

L

Specificat°SPEC

Estelle IGWE

Raffaele FANTETTI

Tahseen KHAN

Harm Jan VAN BURG

Anders GRANGÅRD

Transport & LogisticsT+

L

Cross-Border Mgmt

CBM Validation

Focal Point

Ian WATT

Library Maintenance

Focal Point

ISC Orchestrat°Focal Point

Project Review & Support

Focal Point

TFIG Focal Point

Agenda Item 4:Domain Coordinators

• Nomination of new Domain Coordinators for the period July 2018 to July 2020:

• Mr. Yves Jobin, Trade Facilitation Agreement F.P.• Mr. Rajiv Garg, International Supply Chain

Orchestration Domain• Mr. Michel Bormans, Insurance Domain

• Appreciation to former Domain Coordinators• Mr. Andreas Schultz, Insurance• Mr. Benoît Marchal, Accounting and Audit• Mr. Jérôme Besancenot, Transport and Logistics

• Nominations of all other Domain Coordinatorsplanned for May-June 2019 4

Agenda Item 4:Bureau decisions

• 22 Regular Bureau calls• 60 Bureau decisions

• Bureau decision 1805003, definition of eCommerce:

• "on-line initiation; cross-border transaction/shipment; and destined to consumers (commercial and non-commercial)"

• Bureau decision 1805004, ontologies versus semantics

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Agenda Item 4:Representation and Communication

• UN/CEFACT officially represented at 85 eventssince the 24th Plenary

• 441 news stories about UN/CEFACT (as captured by the UNECE Communication Unit)

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Agenda Item 4:International Trade Procedures PDA

• Completion of the Single Submission Portal project

• Progression on the project to reviseRecommendation 33

• Project on Core Principles for the Operation of Single Window is temporarily on hold

• Near completion of the project on Integrated Services for MSMEs in International Trade

• New project on Disaster Recovery Relief Importation in the process of being launched

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Agenda Item 4:International Supply Chain PDA

PROCUREMENT• Sustainable Procurement project completed

TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS• Finalized:

• Smart Containers White Paper• Will soon go to Public Review:

• Buy-Ship-Pay RDM BRS and technical artefacts• Pipeline Data Carrier BRS • eIMO FAL BRS and technical artefacts• Smart Containers BRS and technical artefacts• Revision of Recommendation 16 (UN/LOCODE) 8

Agenda Item 4:International Supply Chain PDA

SUPPLY CHAIN• C.I. Delivery should finalize before next Plenary• C.I. Invoice-BRS repository to resume• C.I. Supply Chain Track and Trace recently

launchedFINANCE AND PAYMENT• Purchase Order Finance Request technical

artefacts to finalize shortlyACCOUNTING AND AUDIT• Launch of a Reference Data Model project

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Agenda Item 4:Regulatory PDA

E GOVERNMENT• Delivery of the Blockchain project White Papers• Inter-ledger interoperability for cross-border

exchange of Preferential Certificates of Origin project recently launched

ENVIRONMENT• Waste management and waste analysis project

progressing

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Agenda Item 4:Sectoral PDA

TRAVEL AND TOURISM• Sustainable Tourism – Experience Programs

Green Paper project finalized

AGRICULTURE• eQuality Certificate BRS and technical artefacts

completed• Sustainable Textile and Leather Traceability and

Transparency project launched

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Agenda Item 4:Methodology and Technology PDA

• Code Management User Guide completed

• Header-Envelope Document Exchange projectcompleted Public Review

• Message construction guideline project recentlylaunched

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Agenda Item 4:Methodology and Technology PDA

UN/EDIFACT• Fall 2018 Forum: 9 DMRs• Spring 2019 Forum: 50 DMRsUN/CEFACT XML • Currently: 124 messagesCORE COMPONENT LIBRARY• 7,906 Core Components• 12,784 Business Information Entities• 160 Qualified Data Types

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