Bureau

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Bureau

• 2009 Plenary Session Item 3
• Overview of developments
• Stuart Feder
• Plenary Chair

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Outline

• Whats happened since last Plenary
• Whats ahead in this years Plenary
• Delegation outreach

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Outline

• Goals
• Achievements
• Decisions
• Ways forward

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2008-2009

• Since our last meeting in September 2008
• Key deliverables have been achieved
• UN Member States and other stakeholders,
  especially within the UNECE region, showed
  increasingly intense focus and engagement in
  support of UN/CEFACT activities, including the
  Executive Committee
• Experts and elected officials from around the
  world worked especially hard in volunteering
  their skills and time to meet critically
  important deadlines and this teamwork deserves
  special recognition by the Plenary

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Goals

• Consolidate
• Identify Gaps
• Find Ways Forward

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Achievements

• Major collaboration with ISO on e-business
  conference Advancing public-private partnership
  for e-business standards
• Presentations to UNECE Executive Committee, many
  meetings and now documents are advancing for
  December 2009 session
• Key presentation at WTO regarding implementation
  of standards and recommendations in international
  trade
• Strengthening web site availability to find
  information, especially regarding projects

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Achievements

• Recommendations 34 (data simplification and
  standardization for international trade) final
  drafting for intersessional approval
• Recommendation 35 (establishing a legal framework
  for international trade single window) for
  approval during Plenary
• Significant upgrades in Core Component Library
• Release of standards in XML and UN/EDIFACT
• Cross-Industry Invoice (CII) Version 2
• Government Cross-Border Regulatory (GOVCBR)
  message
• Upgrades in core technical specifications
• Gap analyses begun to strengthen internal and
  external
• collaborative efforts

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Achievements

• Three Forums
• Saly, Senegal (November 2008)
• Rome, Italy (April 2009)
• Sapporo, Japan (September/October 2009)

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Actions

• UNECE Executive Committee presentations and
  documents
• UNeDocs / Buy-Ship-Pay Review Team mandate,
  transmission of Review Team Report to Plenary,
  Bureau Vice Chair (Peter Amstutz) to facilitate
  way forward (Stakeholder sessions in Rome Forum
  and Working Sessions in Sapporo)
• Information flows and coordination with Bureau
  member responsible for Standards Liaison (Anders
  Grangard)

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Actions

• Trade Facilitation Implementation Guide
  developments
• Core Component Library issues
• Engagement with European Commission, especially
  stakeholder issues of Expert Group on Electronic
  Invoice

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Ways forward

• Through guidance from EXCOM, Committee on Trade
  and the Plenary
• Through gap analyses and other aspects of the
  electronic Business, Government and Trade (eBGT)
  initiative
• Through increased cooperation with other
• organisations involved in trade
  facilitation,
• standards development and capacity building

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Ways forward

• Through outreach to all stakeholders
• By encouraging ongoing renewal and improvement
  of what is to be done
• To regularly address how we can organise and
  conduct ourselves better in order to yield
  greater efficiency and commonality of purpose
  among all the experts that participate around the
  world

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Ways forward

• By improving our two-way communications
• By improving availability of our online
  standards
• By clarifying and strengthening collaboration
  within
• UNECE
• By encouraging Member States to increase their
  support of experts to work within UN/CEFACT

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Ways forward

• Towards simple, transparent
• and effective processes
• for global commerce

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Plenary outreach

• The Bureau welcomes your comments

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15th UN/CEFACT Plenary Geneva, 09-12 November
2009

• UN/CEFACT Forum Report
• Forum Management Group
• Chair Mike Doran
• Vice-Chairs Anders Grangard
• Garret Minakawa

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Agenda

• Progress since the 14th UN/CEFACT Plenary
• Focusing on Delivery
• Programme of Work
• Workflow Procedures
• Deliverables
• 13th UN/CEFACT Forum - Saly, Senegal
• 14th UN/CEFACT Forum - Rome, Italy
• 15th UN/CEFACT Forum - Sapporo, Japan
• Outreach
• Reports from the Permanent Groups

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Progress since the 14th Plenary

• Programme of Work 2008/2009
• Focus on delivering UN/CEFACT products services
• Confluence Website to track UN/CEFACT Project
  Portfolio progress - launched
• Alignment prioritisation of Forum projects with
  the UN/CEFACT Integrated Strategy
• Details of POW progress in PG Reports

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Focusing on Delivery

• Workflow Procedures
• Forum Procedures Team (FPT) completed FORUM
  Workflow Procedures in order to improve
  cooperation between the Permanent Groups
• UN/CEFACT procedures for the publishing of
  Standards and Recommendations updated
• Revision of R.650/Rev.4 and its Annexes commenced
  (item 9 of the agenda)
• Forum elections held during the Saly, Senegal
  Forum under reviewed and updated election
  procedures

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Focusing on Delivery

• Deliverables
• Cross Industry Invoice (CII) v2.0 schemas
• GOVCBR (Government Cross Border Regulatory
  Message)
• UN/EDIFACT Directories, D.08B D.09A published
• Core Component Libraries (CCL) D.08B and D.09A
• XML Schema Directories D.08A, D.08B and D.09A
• Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS)
  Version 3.0
• Core Components Data Type Catalogue Version 3.0

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Focusing on Delivery

• Deliverables
• Trade Facilitation Recommendations
• UN/CEFACT Recommendation 35 - Legal Framework for
  Single Windows, completed
• Revisions of UNECE Trade Facilitation
  Recommendations
• No. 20 , 21 and 24
• Draft Recommendation 34 - Data Simplification
  Standardization for International Trade - in
  final drafting stage
• Trade Facilitation Implementation Guide project
  -completion delayed
• Buy-Ship-Pay/UNeDocs - Bureau Gap Analyses Teams
  set up

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13th UN/CEFACT Forum

• Saly, Senegal
• 10-14 November 2008

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The 13th UN/CEFACT Forum

• The Saly Forum was hosted by the government of
  Senegal. The Minister of Budget, Mr Mamadou
  Abdoulaye Sow opened the Forum
• 150 participants from Africa, Asia, Europe
  North America
• A National Forum on eBusiness was held in Dakar
  for
• Senegalese government regional business
  officials
• The meetings highlighted the importance of global
  standards in international trade, in general,
  in Africa, in particular

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14th UN/CEFACT Forum

• Rome, Italy
• 20 - 24 April 2009

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The 14th UN/CEFACT Forum

• The Forum was hosted by the Italian Ministry of
  Economic Development the Italian Institute for
  Foreign Trade
• The Under-Secretary for Trade, Mr Adolfo Urso,
  opened the Forum.
• Over 200 participants from all regions attended
  the Forum.
• A seminar on The Role of Trade Facilitation
  Promoting Market Integration with a Focus on
  Africa was held in parallel to the Forum.
  Participants included the EU Development
  Commissioner, Italian Minister for Economic
  Development, WTO, OECD.

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15th UN/CEFACT Forum

• Sapporo, Japan
• 28 September - 2 October 2009

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The 15th UN/CEFACT Forum

• The Forum was organized by Japan Association for
  Simplification of International Trade procedures
  (JASTPRO) and the UN/CEFACT Japan Committee
  (JEC), under the auspices of
• The Ministries of Finance (Customs Bureau) -
  Ministry of Economy, Trade Industry - Ministry
  of Land, Infrastructure Transportation - The
  Hokkaido Government and the City of Sapporo.
• The Director-General of the Ministry of Land,
  Infrastructure and Transportation, Mr Katsuyuki
  Ozaki and the Mayor of Sapporo, Mr Fumio Ueda
  opened the Forum.
• Over 180 participants from all regions attended
  the Forum.
• JASTPRO organized a seminar on UN/CEFACT
  Standards Recommendations in parallel to the
  Forum which was attended by some 100 local
  attendees. A particular emphasis was placed on
  UN/CEFACTs standards for agriculture which was
  very important for the economy of Hokkaido.

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OUTREACH

• Presentations on UN/CEFACTs standards
  recommendations were also made at
• Joint Trade Transport Conference on the Impact
  of Globalisation, Geneva - February 2009
• The APEC Single Window Workshop, Singapore -
  April 2009
• The Importance of standards in International
  Trade - World Trade Organization, Geneva, April
  2009
• WCO IT Conference, April 2009
• Information Communication Technologies in
  International Trade, Geneva, June 2009
• Trade Development Facilitation for Economies in
  Transition, Geneva, October 2009.

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Future Forum Meetings

• 16th Forum meeting - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 12
  to 16 April, 2010
• 17th Forum meeting - Geneva, Switzerland,
• 30 August to 3 September 2010
• 18th Forum meeting - Spring 2011??
• 19th Forum meeting - Autumn 2011??

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TBG Report

• Chair Natascha Pottier
• Vice Chairs Chris Hassler
• Michael Dill

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International Trade and Business Processes Group

• Report to the 15th UN/CEFACT Plenary Session
• Chair Natascha Pottier
• Vice-Chair Chris Hassler
• Vice Chair Michael Dill

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TBGs Mandate

• The purpose of the TBG is to be responsible for
  the simplification of international trade
  procedures, business and governmental process
  analysis, and best practices, using the UN/CEFACT
  Modeling Methodology, where appropriate, to
  support the development of trade facilitation
  e-Business standards.

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TBG Summary

• Typical Forum attendance - 150 experts within 16
  Working Groups
• Many participants are sponsored by companies,
  trade associations and national governments but
  in all cases are expected to contribute as
  individual subject matter experts
• Since the last UN/CEFACT Plenary, International
  Trade and Business Processes Groups met during
  the 13th (Saly), 14th (Rome), and 15th (Sapporo)
  UN/CEFACT Forums
• Also to progress work forward, TBG Work Groups
  conducted numerous face to face interim meetings
  and more than 100 internet conferences and
  conference calls

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TBG Working Groups
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TBG1-Supply Chain eProcurement

• Purpose
• Supply chain and e-Procurement covers the
  Purchasing, Material Management and Payment areas
• Programme of Work
• The Cross Industry Invoice (CII) version 2.0 has
  been published
• Collaboration with TBG6 on developing the Cross
  Industry Catalogue, included in CCL09B
• Collaboration with TBG18 on developing the
  Despatch Advice, included in CCL09B
• Development of Ordering and eMarket Research
  messages, included in CCL09B
• Another suite of messages is planned to be
  included in the CCL10A which cover Quotation
  (in collaboration with TBG6), Remittance
  Advice, and Scheduling.

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TBG3-Transportation and Logistics

• Purpose
• Develop the eBusiness standards for Logistics
  planning and Transport. This covers operational
  movements of goods, administrative and
  governmental requirements and safety and security
  of freight movements.
• Programme of Work
• Development priority for individual
  Projects/Business Requirements Specifications
  (BRSs)
• Status Request / Report, Transport Instructions,
  Dangerous Goods Declaration, Multimodal Waybill
  for transports
• Collaboration on Version 3.0 guidelines of the
  International Transportation Implementation
  Guidelines Group (ITIGG) for transport messages
  for both EDIFACT XML
• Collaboration with Customs TBG4 / WCO and other
  users groups, specifically GS1 and IATA

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TBG4-Customs

• Purpose
• Collaborate with World Customs Organisation (WCO)
  covering Business to Government (B2G), Government
  to Government (G2G) and Business to Business
  (B2B) requirements in cross border transactions.
• Programme of Work
• Government Cross Border Regulatory (GOVCBR)
  EDIFACT message finalized during Sapporo forum
  and published
• Contributed to Recommendation 34
• Initiated submission of Core Components to TBG17,
  BIEs to follow
• Collaborated with TBG3 on transport messages
• IMO Marine Safety DMRs
• Multimodal Dangerous Goods Requirements

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TBG5-Finance

• Purpose
• Be responsible within the financial services area
  for the simplification of international trade
  procedures, business and governmental process
  analysis, and optimization of information
  exchange standards.
• Programme of Work
• Inclusion of Customer Credit Transfer semantics
  in CC Library marks the successful first presence
  of finance in UN/CEFACT.
• Global financial strategy to promote ISO 20022 as
  financial standard
• TBG5 continues to actively participate in
  cross-domain projects
• The key objective right now is on e-invoicing and
  integration to the financial payment chain.

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TBG6-Architecture, Engineering Construction

• Purpose
• Responsible to coordinate and propose new
  developments and maintenance in the area of
  Architecture, Engineering and Construction
  Industry (AEC).
• Programme of Work
• Continued refinement of eTendering and Project
  Schedule and Cost Performance Management
  standards.
• Joint projects with TBG1
• eCatalog (will be part of D09B)
• Contract Financial Execution Management (CFEM).
• Continued development of Security in Messages and
  Documents.
• Work with TBG19 on the gap analysis between
  eNotification and eTendering

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TBG8-Insurance

• Purpose
• Functional area of insurance business including
  policy production, placement, claims, risk
  management. It covers also domestic and
  international environments, insurance and
  reinsurance, single company policies and
  co-insurance.
• Programme of Work
• Project work developed through Global Insurance
  Standards (ACORD), the Centre for Study of
  Insurance Operations (CSIO) and eBES Expert Group
  Seven
• Data elements for insurance related information
  for Contract, Party and Coverage as well as
  business areas of claims, life insurance, health
  insurance and automotive insurance are included
  in CCL09B.

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TBG9-Travel, Tourism Leisure

• Purpose
• To support and promote international business
  activities related to the exchange of travel
  industry data.
• Programme of Work
• First set of schemas for requesting and receiving
  information on small-scale lodging published in
  D.07A.
• Small Scale Lodging Travel Product Information
  has been included in D.09A
• The third part of the project, which deals with
  the reservation of the products has been
  initiated
• Discussion on travel-related activities in the
  Republic of Korea to harmonize with the UN/CEFACT
  Forum procedures has started.
• TBG9 will also review the data maintenance
  requests (DMR) code requests, etc

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TBG12-Accounting Audit

• Purpose
• Develop e-Business standards for Accounting and
  Audit domains.
• It covers specific accounting matters as well as
  regulatory obligations requiring business to file
  multiple questionnaires, returns, declaration
  forms and reporting towards private and
  governmental collectors.
• Programme of Work
• Achieved Accounting Token (for Invoice),
  Accounting Entry Message
• 4 Messages on the final ODP step Chart Of
  Accounts Message, Ledger Message, Reporting
  Message, Accounting Message
• BRS preparation in progress for 2 Messages Trial
  Balance, Journal
• Insertion of Accounting Token collaboration
  with TBG1, TBG6
• Joint project TBG18 Cooperative Farms Financial
  Reporting.
• New project Bundle Collection with TBG6 19.

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TBG13-Environmental

• Purpose
• To support and promote both international and
  regional cooperation activities related to
  environmental data exchange.
• Programme of Work
• Meeting the information process requirements
  under the Basel Convention on Control of
  Transboundary Movements of Waste (TMW) 172
  Parties, G2G, B2G
• TMW Business Information Entity/Core Component
  submission approved, and published within CCL
  09A
• Plans to work on TMW-related waste-assessment
  data.

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TBG14-Business Process Analysis

• Purpose
• Responsible for defining the International Supply
  Chain model to present the various processes and
  parties involved within the international supply
  chain in a simplified way.
• Programme of Work
• Project P059 International Supply Chain
  Reference Model delivered version 2008A (May
  2008) and 2009A (July 2009) of the Buy-Ship-Pay
  Model (aka International Supply Chain Reference
  Model (ISCM)) and the related Modelling
  Guidelines.
• The latest achievements since the 2008A version
  are Catalogue, Waste Transport, Customs, Despatch
  and Receive Goods, Scheduling and Remittance
  Advice.
• TBG14 will harmonize business processes
• Working with TBG15 on the International Trade
  Facilitation Model

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TBG15-International Trade Procedures

• Purpose
• Analyze, simplify, harmonize and align public and
  private sector practices, procedures and
  information flows relating to international trade
  transactions both in goods and related services.
• Programme of Work
• Develop guidance and tools to support a national
  Single Window facility.
• Completed Recommendation 35 establishing a legal
  framework for the efficient and effective
  operation of Single Window
• Continued work on Recommendation 34 on the Data
  Simplification and Standardization,
• Completed revision of the Annex to Recommendation
  6 (Aligned Invoice Layout-Key for International
  Trade)
• Established review team for revision of
  Recommendations 12 (Measures to Facilitate
  Maritime Transport Documents Procedures) and 14
  (Authentication of Trade Documents by Means Other
  than Signature)
• Project Team of the Trade Facilitation
  Implementation Guide
• Work with TBG14 on International Trade
  Facilitation Model
• Initiated new recommendation for Consultation,
  based on Recommendation 4
• Initiated new recommendation for Public Private
  Partnerships

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TBG17-Core Component Harmonisation

• Purpose
• Responsible for consistency and harmonisation 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.
• Programme of Work
• CCL has two components, Standards Library and
  Reference Library
• Developed Core Component Libraries 08B, 09A, 09B,
  including
• Cross Industry Invoice version 2.0
• Waste Movement (Basel Convention)
• Buy-Ship-Pay reference model
• Working with ISO on Trade Data Elements Directory
  (TDED) update
• Members
• Other TBGs and PGs
• UNCTAD, UNEP, eAC (AFACT), EDIFICE, GS1, JAI,
  IATA, OAGi, RosettaNet, SBR, SWIFT, OASIS UBL TC,
  USG, WCO, X12

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TBG18-Agriculture

• Purpose
• Develop and maintain Business Process Models, the
  Business Transaction Models, the semantics and
  the contents in a syntax neutral way that fulfil
  the requirements of the Agro Food communities
• Programme of Work
• Sanitary and Phytosanitary Certificates (eCert)
  and Crop Data Sheet message (eDAPLOS) published.
• Other projects Livestock Animal Record,
  Electronic Data Exchange Proxy, Cattle
  Registration Information
• Joint project with TBG 12 P075 - Accounting
  Reporting Joint Project Amendment.
• Work with TBG1 on Despatch and Receive Advice
• Work with TBG3 on Dangerous Goods and on Tracing
  and Tracking Fish

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TBG19-eGovernment

• Purpose
• Develop and maintain business scenarios and
  business transactions to facilitate the
  electronic delivery of services to citizens,
  businesses and government organizations.
• Programme of Work
• Continued work on eArchiving Transfer of
  digital records
• Progress on joint project (TBG1, 6 and 19) on
  ePublic procurement tied to CEN-ISSS Business
  Interoperability Interfaces on Public Procurement
  in Europe (BII) work.
• Work proceeding on gap analysis between
  eNotification vs. eTendering

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Needs of TBGs

• Subject matter experts
• Domain
• Modelling
• Technical developers
• Project Management skills
• Tools
• Registry development
• Complete suite of technical specifications

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ICG Report

• Chair Mike Conroy
• Vice Chair Vacant

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ICGINFORMATION CONTENT MANAGEMENT GROUP

• Mike CONROY, Chair
• David DOBBING, Vice Chair

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ICG Mandate
The purpose of the Information Content Management
Group (ICG) is to ensure the release of quality
technical specifications for e-business

• Management of the UN/CEFACT information
  repositories and libraries for electronic
  business and Rec.s that fall within its scope
• Technical conformance and registration of the
  UN/CEFACT business requirements specifications
• Normalisation and maintenance of the base syntax
  neutral information components that serve as the
  building blocks for the development of standards
  for implementation
• Technical conformity and registration of the
  syntax specific objects and components

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ICG Deliverables

• A series of coherent, consistent and normalized
  reference libraries comprising the business
  requirements, information objects and code lists
  that are aligned with the domain reference models
  and serve as the building blocks for the
  development of standards for implementation
• Validating the conformance of technical
  specifications with the corresponding publication
  guidelines and for the release of approved syntax
  specific information objects and components
• Processes and procedures for the maintenance of
  the libraries
• Mechanisms for ensuring the quality of the
  library contents
• Proposals, including draft Recommendations for
  review and approval by the UN/CEFACT Plenary and
• Maintenance of UN Recommendations related to codes

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UNECERecommendations

• UNECE Rec. No. 3 - ISO Country Code for
  Representation of Names of Countries
• UNECE Rec. No. 5 - Abbreviations of INCOTERMS
• UNECE Rec. No. 7 - Numerical Representation of
  Dates, Time, and Periods of Time
• UNECE Rec. No. 8 - Unique Identification Code
  Methodology - UNIC
• UNECE Rec. No. 9 - Alphabetical Code for the
  Representation of Currencies
• UNECE Rec. No. 10 - Codes for Ship's Names
• UNECE Rec. No. 15 - Simpler Shipping Marks
• UNECE Rec. No. 16 - Trade and Transport Locations
  (UN/LOCODE)
• UNECE Rec. No. 17 - Payterms
• UNECE Rec. No. 19 - Codes for Modes of Transport
• UNECE Rec. No. 20 - Codes for units of measure
  used in international trade
• UNECE Rec. No. 21 - Codes for Types of Cargo,
  Packages and Packaging Materials
• UNECE Rec. No. 23 - Freight Cost Code
• UNECE Rec. No. 24 - Trade and Transport Status
  Codes
• UNECE Rec. No. 28 - Codes for Types of Means of
  Transport

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Principal Highlights

• Experimental testing of the UN/CEFACT Registry
  Specification 1.2.
• Second draft of the UN Codelists in Genericode
  format
• Carried out the following audits
• Core Component libraries D.08A, D.08B and D.09A
• XML Schema libraries D.07B, D.08A , D.08B and
  D.09A
• RSMs Ecert, eDaplos, Accounting Entry, Project
  Schedule and Cost Performance Management (PSCPM),
  Cross Industry Invoice (CII) and Small-Scale
  Lodging House Travel Product Information Process.
• UN/EDIFACT D.08A, D.08B and D.09A directories
• Updated the following key UN Recommendations
• Recommendation 20 (Units of Measure)
• Recommendation 21 (Codes for Passengers, Types of
  Cargo, Packages and Packaging Materials (with
  Complementary Codes for Package Names))
• Recommendation 24 (Trade and Transport Status
  Codes)

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Items forPlenary Noting

• UNECE Recommendations
• Rec. 20 (Units of Measure) Rev.6
• UNECE Rec. 21 (Codes for Passengers, Types of
  Cargo, Packages and Packaging Materials) Rev.7
• UNECE Rec. 24 (Trade and Transport Status Codes)
  Rev.6.
• UN/EDIFACT DIRECTORY Releases
• D08A
• D08B
• D09A
• Core Component Library (CCL) Releases
• D08A
• D08B
• D09A
• XML Schema Releases
• D08A (Sanitary and Phytosanitary Export
  Certification (eCert), Crop Datasheet Process
  message (eDaplos))
• D08B (Project Schedule and Cost Performance
  Management (PSCPM), Accounting Entry)
• D09A (Cross Industry Invoice (CII), Small Scaled
  Lodging House Travel Product Information Process)

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Work in progress

• UN/CEFACT Code List management finalisation
• Ongoing Audit of UN/CEFACT deliverables
• Ongoing maintenance of UNECE Recommendations
  related to codes

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Tasks to be fulfilled

• The following tasks are carried on a regular
  basis
• Management of UN/ECE Recommendations and generic
  UN Codelists
• Audit of UN/EDIFACT updates
• Audit of UN/Core Component Library
• Audit of XML Schemas
• Verification of the BRS content
• Management of the RSM (core component content)

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ATG Report

• Chair Mark Crawford
• Vice Chairs Gait Boxman
• Jostein Fromyr

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Applied Technologies Group

• Chair
• Mark Crawford
• Vice Chairs
• Gait Boxman
• Jostein Frømyr
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/ATG/ATG_Home.htm

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ATG Goal Consistent Syntax Transformation
Consistency in multi-syntax design and use ?
XML NDR for Schema Development ? EDI
Transformation Rules ? UML2XML through CC
Profiles ? UML2EDIFACT transformation rules
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ATG Mandate

• Create and maintain the trade, business and
  administration document structures based on a
  specific technology or standard
• Design, assembly and production of syntax
  specific solutions based on identified business
  and/or technical requirements from the empowered
  groups of UN/CEFACT

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ATG Deliverables

• Technical assessment and maintenance of syntax
  specific solutions through the application of
  Data Maintenance Requests
• A series of coherent, consistent and normalized
  syntax solutions that are aligned with domain
  reference models for publication in a designated
  UN/CEFACT information Registry
• UN/EDIFACT messages and their support directories
• XML Schemas
• UNeDocs

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ATG Deliverables

• Procedures and Mechanisms for the maintenance and
  quality of the syntax solutions
• Appropriate technical specifications detailing
  the design and production rules, guidelines and
  checklists
• Maintenance of Recommendations/Technical
  Specifications in coordination with TC154
• UNECE Recommendation 1 (UN Layout Key) technical
  aspects
• ISO 9735 - UN/EDIFACT Syntax

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Data Type Library

• Data Types define the value domain for Core
  Components
• Specification Purpose
• Create and Maintain UN/CEFACT Data Types to
  support CCTS and syntax solutions
• Provide input to CCTS Project
• Develop guidance to facilitate use
• Project Purpose
• Update existing catalogue
• Develop responsive maintenance procedures

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Data Type Library
Project Lead Serge Cayron
Editor Mark Crawford
Project Approval status Approved by FMG
Current ODP step Verson 2 ODP8 Version 3 ODP7
Next Steps Analyze EDIFACT Data Types for possible updates
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Standard Business Document Header, v3

• Specification Purpose
• Improve A2A handling of business transaction
  information
• Project Purpose
• Update to reflect CCTS 3.0, DTC 3.0 and NDR 3.0
  for consistency. Incorporate cloud computing
  concepts
• SBDH Scope
• Provide information about the routing and
  processing of the Standard Business Document
• XML Format
• EDIFACT Format
• Other Format

• SBDH Can be used as either
• An integral part of a Standard Business Document
  (e.g. either XML instance document or EDI
  interchange), or
• An object separate from the Standard Business
  Document itself

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Standard Business Document Header, v3
Project Lead Shingao Sakaguchi
Editor Open
Project Approval status Approved by FMG
Current ODP step 3 Begin Deliberations
Anticipate Completion Open
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ATG1 EDIFACT Syntax

• Purpose
• Development and Maintenance of EDIFACT syntax
  solutions to support UN/CEFACT work program
• Officers
• Chair Gait Boxman
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/ATG/ATG1.htm

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Ongoing Work Item

• EDIFACT Data Maintenance Request (DMR) processing
• Saly Forum 354 Data Maintenance Requests (DMRs)
• 75 Approved
• 262 Approved with Changes
• 4 Postponed
• 12 Rejected
• 1 Withdrawn
• Rome Forum 91 Data Maintenance Requests (DMRs)
• 34 Approved
• 55 Approved with changes
• 1 Postponed
• 1 Withdrawn
• Sapporo Forum 94 Data Maintenance Requests
  (DMRs)
• 55 Approved
• 34 Approved with Changes
• 0 Postponed
• 4 Rejected
• 1 Withdrawn

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EDIFACT Directory

• D.08A, D.08B and D.09A EDIFACT Directory released
  for publication
• D.09A includes WCO submitted Government Cross
  Border Regulatory Message
• Required change to R1023 released for publication

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ATG1 Projects

• UML2EDIFACT Project
• Defines methodology for transforming UN/CEFACT
  Modelling Methodology (UMM) conformant UML models
  into the EDIFACT syntax

Project Lead Gait Boxman
Editor Open
Project Approval Status Approved by FMG
Current ODP step 6
Anticipate Completion Dependent on requirements of TBG
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ATG2 XML Syntax

• Group Purpose
• Development and maintenance of XML syntax
  solutions to support UN/CEFACT work program
• Officers
• Chair Jostein Frømyr
• http//www.uncefactforum.org/ATG/ATG2.htm

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Ongoing Work Item Schema Generation
D08A D08B D09A
Business Process 37 38 40
Common Reusable 1 1 1
Unqualified Data Type Schema 1 1 1
Common Code List Schema 7 7 7
Qualified Data Type Schema 1 1 1
Supporting Code List Schema 29 42 57
Schema Generation Pipeline has dramatically
improved D09A 17 Days from first production
effort to release for
publication including audits
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XML Naming and Design Rules, V3

• Specification Purpose
• Consistent transformation of Core Components
• Optimized use of XML
• Project Purpose
• Align withCCTS 3.0 and DTC 3.0
• Enable use of UCM
• Drive Convergence of SDOs to UN/CEFACT
  methodology

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XML Naming and Design Rules, V3
Project Lead Mark Crawford
Editor Mike Rowell
Project Approval status Approved by FMG
Current ODP step 6
Anticipate ODP7 25 November 2009
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XML Representation of Core Components

• User Requirements
• External standards organizations are interested
  in submitting candidate core components to
  UN/CEFACT using XML
• Tool vendors are interested in building support
  for CCTS, but are looking for XML syntax
  standards for CCTS constructs
• Specification Purpose
• Provide consistent pattern for XML serialization
  of core component artefacts
• Approach
• Develop requisite UN/CEFACT XML schema modules
  for defining submitting and storing Core
  Component Technical Specification (CCTS)
  constructs in XML
• compliant to the UN/CEFACT Core Components
  Technical Specification
• Compliant to the UN/CEFACT XML Naming and Design
  Rules specification

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XML Representation of Core Components
Project Lead Mike Rowell
Editor Mark Crawford
Project Approval Status Approved by FMG
Current ODP step 3 (1st Working Draft)
Anticipate Completion 1st qtr 2010 Dependent on delivery of NDR 3.0
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Other Activities

• XML Schema User Guide Template
• Provide guidance for implementation and use
• Schema Generation and Testing Guidelines
• Promulgating Internal Processes to a wider
  audience
• Tools

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ATG Driving Convergence under UN/CEFACT

• Had very successful F2F meetings
• September 2008 Pearl River, USA
• January 2009 Waldorf, Germany
• June 2009 Washington D.C.
• Representatives from different SDOs/Industry
  Consortia a number of Government agencies are
  participating
• UBL, AIAG, STAR, ACORD, GS1, RosettaNet, OAGi,
  CIDX, HR-XML
• Significant progress in achieving common
  understanding and alignment on XML technical
  issues
• Growing list of SDOs committed to using
  UN/CEFACT Common Methodologies CCTS3, DTC3,
  NDR3, SBDH3, UPC3, UCM

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ATG2Next meetings

• Next Face-to-Face meeting
• Tentatively scheduled as joint meeting with TMG
  last week of January in Vienna
• Weekly conference calls as needed
• DT project Tuesday at 1600 CET
• NDR project Thursday at 1500 CET
• XML4CCTS Thursday at 1800 CET

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Issues Resource Requirements

• Internal tools to support deliverables
• XML Schema Generation Tool
• XML Schema Validation Tool
• XML Schema NDR Validation Tool
• Integration of Tools with UN/CEFACT Registry
• Collaboration Tool to facilitate work
• Better and more flexible list serve tool

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Issues Resource Requirements

• Participation Issues
• Active Members
• Virtual Members
• Strong Engagement From
• North America, UK, Belgium
• Service Provider participation
• Need Broader Engagement From
• Member countries
• Key sectors

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TMG Report

• Chair Christian Huemer
• Vice Chair Scott Hinkelmann

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Techniques and Methodologies Group (TMG)

• Report to the 14th UN/CEFACT Plenary Session
• Chair Christian Huemer
• Vice Chair Scott Hinkelman

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TMG Mandate (1)

• The purpose of the Techniques Methodologies
  Group (TMG) is to provide all UN/CEFACT Groups
  with Meta (base) Business Process, Information
  and Communications Technology specifications,
  methodologies, recommendations and education.

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TMG Mandate (2)

• The TMG shall also function as a research group
  evaluating new information and communication
  technologies (ICT), as well as, techniques and
  methodologies that may assist UN/CEFACT and its
  groups to fulfill their mandate and vision in
  Trade Facilitation and e-Business.

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Working Groups

• Core Components Working Group
• Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS
  3.0)
• UML Profile for Core Components (UPCC 3.0)
• UN/CEFACT Context Methodology (UCM 1.0)
• Business Process Working Group
• UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology (UMM 2.0)
• Resource-Event-Agent specialization (REA 1.0)
• (eBusiness Architecture Working Group)

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Meetings

• Members
• 20 active members
• 10 15 participants at face-to-face (F2F)
  meetings
• Meetings
• 13th UN/CEFACT Forum Saly, Senegal (Nov 2008)
• TMG F2F Meeting Walldorf, Germany (Jan 2009)
• 14th UN/CEFACT Forum Rome, Italy (Apr 2009)
• CCWG F2F Meeting Washington, USA (Jun 2009)
• 15th UN/CEFACT Forum Sapporo, Japan (Sep 2009)

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CCTS 3.0

• Core Components Technical Specification 3.0
• Received successful implementation verifications
  from GS1, DCMA, OAGi, TBG 6 and ATG
• TMG has approved CCTS 3.0
• Announcement on the UNCEFACT 27th October 2009
• Specification is available for download.

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UPCC 3.0

• UML Profile for Core Components 3.0
• UPCC 3.0 will be the successor of UPCC 1.0
• OPD Step 4 close to completion
• Editing of the first public draft has been
  finished
• First public review cycle is about to be
  announced

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UCM 1.0

• UN/CEFACT Context Methodology 1.0
• Focus on a robust and complete context
  methodology
• The team is working on the internal draft (ODP 3)
• The foundation of the methodology is based on a
  context graph (a directed acyclic graph) for
  organizing context values
• The final critical part of UCM is a context
  expression grammar, which used to both assign,
  and apply, context using the context graph
• When complete UCM is expected to facilitate
  message assembly

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UMM 2.0

• UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology 2.0
• UMM is in ODP 6 Implementation verification
• Editing on the second implementation verification
  draft is finished
• Second implementation verification draft is about
  to be announced
• Some implementation verifications on the way
• Final specification is expected early next year

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REA 1.0

• Resources Events Agents
• REA is an accounting model
• REA may be used for the business justification of
  inter-organizational systems
• The project transforms REA concepts to UML for
  the purpose of extending UMM
• REA will enhance the business requirements
  elicitation of UMM
• The team is working on its internal draft

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eBusiness Architecture

• Critical success factors
• Participation of all Permanent Groups
• Buy-in on the to-be architecture from the
  recognized CEFACT stakeholders
• TMG suggested that the FMG is best suited for
  taking care of UN/CEFACTs standard development
  framework

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CSDAT

• UN/CEFACT Standards Development Advisory Team
• Provide advice to the FMG decision process on the
  Standards Development Framework
• Identify different alternative solutions for a
  business architecture
• Evaluate and propose suitable architecture
  solutions
• Provide majority and minority positions on
  evaluated solutions
• Identification and suggested prioritization of
  new projects in order to facilitate the
  completion of the decision
• Evaluate project proposals for framework
  compatibility
• Identify release packages of compatible versions
  of technical specifications

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LG Report

• Chair Bart Schermer (Acting)
• Vice ChairVacant

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Bureau

• 2009 Plenary Session Item 6
• Stakeholder needs and priorities
• Stuart Feder
• Plenary Chair

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Outline

• Countries
• Sectors
• Standards Development Organisations

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Dimensions

• Speakers will address different aspects
• of stakeholder needs and priorities, mainly
• with respect to two dimensions
• Strategic and practical issues
• Special focus on trade facilitation

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Countries

• Sweden
• European Commission
• United Kingdom
• Committee on Trade
• UNECE
• AFACT

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Sectors

• Special Invited Guest Presenter
• GS1 and Former EWG Chair

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SDOs

• The perspective of Standards
• Development Organisations
• building on strengths and avoiding
• duplication
• Bureau Standards Liaison
• Special Invited Guest Speaker

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Plenary Outreach

• Have we adequately covered the needs?
• Are we clear about priorities?
• Are deliverables achievable?
• Are transition economies in the picture?
• Is UN/CEFACTs global remit addressed?

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Bureau

• 2009 Plenary Session Item 7
• Policy drivers for the development
• of trade facilitation instruments
• Christina Rahlen
• Session Chair

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Outline

• Switzerland
• World Customs Organization
• UNCTAD secretariat
• Center for System Identification, Belarus
• UN/CEFACT Rapporteur for Africa (Senegal)
• Mongolia
• UNECE secretariat
• UN/CEFACT Chair of FMG

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Plenary Outreach

• In your view, who are policy drivers?
• Are stakeholders also policy drivers?
• What is the impact on UN/CEFACT on policy
  drivers?
• How should UN/CEFACT relate to policy drivers?

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Bureau

• 2009 Plenary Session Item 8
• Capacity-building and the
• implementation of international standards
• Mike Doran
• FMG Chair

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Outline

• UNCTAD secretariat
• World Customs Organization
• UNECE secretariat
• Norstella, Norway

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Plenary Outreach

• Have we adequately covered stakeholder needs?
• Are we clear about priorities?
• Are deliverables achievable?
• Are transition economies in the picture?
• Is UN/CEFACTs global remit addressed?

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