UBL PSC Report

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UBL PSC Report Plenary UBL TC Meeting Brussels
22-26 May 2006
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• aims
• disposition of public review comments
• implement agreed changes to spreadsheets
• prepare for schema generation

• stats
• 39 decisions pending TC meeting
• of which 39 resolved
• 224 agreed changes to spreadsheets
• of which 112 changes made

• summary
• more debate than anticipated involved in
  resolving pending issues
• many of the resolutions required extensive
  editing of the spreadsheets

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• UBL / UN/CEFACT harmonisation
• no formal project timeframe yet
• agreed that formal workshops required with
  sufficient resource from UBL and UN/CEFACT
• UBL to contact TBG1 after current UBL workload is
  addressed and harmonisation resource identified

• UBL 2.0 / Cross Industry Invoice Gap Analysis
• initial harmonisation point
• was not addressed during meeting because
• gap identification from GEFEG still due
• other work priorities
• UBL 2.0 does include points from the CII
  identified from informal analysis (Remittance
  Advice) also

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• work immediately ahead
• 112 changes to be made to spreadsheet
• continue spreadsheet editing Friday 26th
• commitment to finish by 2nd June
• schema generation

• UBL / UN/CEFACT harmonisation
• resource to be identified
• date to be set for first workshop
• Martin Forsberg / Freddy de Vos
• actions above take precedence
• as does analysis of the gaps identified by GEFEG

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• OGC buying solutions
• will no longer participate in UBL
• keeping a watching brief on the work of the
  Northern Europe Subset
• ML proposes to retain chair of the PSC
• membership to be addressed