UN/CEFACT
Introduction
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The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) is a subsidiary, intergovernmental body of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) which serves as a focal point within the United Nations Economic and Social Council for trade facilitation recommendations and electronic business standards. It has global membership and its members are experts from intergovernmental organizations, individual countries' authorities and also from the business community.
Key areas of work
Recommendations
Standards
Projects
Public Reviews
UN/LOCODEAdvisoryGroup
SustainableFisheries
In Focus
- The next UN/CEFACT Forum will be held in London, UK from 28 October to 1 November. Around 300 experts are expected from all corners of the globe. Work will progress on Single Window implementations, Application Programming Interfaces, IMO electronic FAL messages, Textile and Leather Traceability, Inter-ledger interoperability of Blockchain, Internet of Things for Trade Facilitation. We hope to see you there!
- Have you seen the reorganization of our outputs on this website? The Trade Facilitation recommendations and Code List recommendations have been streamlined. And all UN/CEFACT standards have been reorganized in order to assist potential users to find all pertinent information by theme in one single place. This is still evolving, but we hope this will help you to access our deliverables more easily.
- UN/CEFACT is “Smart Connectivity”. We are contributing to a wholistic approach of standards and guidance material within the UNECE. More is to come under the Sustainable mobility and smart connectivity nexus.
Highlights
12 November 2019: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the project Cross Border Management Reference Data Model (CBM-RDM). This project shall aim to link trader information to regulatory requirements, providing seamless semantic connections for electronic data exchange. This builds upon the existing reference data models for Supply Chain and for Multi-Modal Transport and will consider all regulatory data which is publicly available. If you would like more information, please contact the project lead: Zissis Palaskas.
1 November 2019: This is to announce a 60-day Public Review concerning the Revision of Recommendation 5 – Abbreviations of INCOTERMS. If you would like to submit comments, please use the appropriate template provided on the Public Review page and send to the Project Leader, Tomas Malik before 31 December 2019.
24 October 2019: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the project “Digital ID for Trade Facilitation.” This project aims, within the context of UN/CEFACT’s mandate to create a whitepaper that focuses on studying existing digital ID systems and presenting best practices for existing systems that can act as a guide for future implementation. This will include examining how Digital ID systems could be used to facilitate trade and related processes as well as how existing UN/CEFACT deliverables could be used by Digital ID systems. If you would like more information, please contact the project lead: Mr. Vijay Kumar
4 October 2019: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the project "Experience Programs Technical Artefacts". As outlined in the UN/CEFACT Green Paper on the subject, experience programs are offered increasingly around the world. This project will identify and define the data which can be exchanged to support this emerging trend. If you would like more information, please contact the project lead: Mr. Sachin Mehta.
4 October 2019: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the project Revision of Recommendation 5. This project will modernize and update the Recommendation 5 and its annex based on Incoterms® 2020 published by International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). The First conference call will be held on Friday 11 October, if you would like more information, please contact the project lead: Tomas Malik
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