20 th UN/CEFACT FORUM

20th UN/CEFACT FORUM

Closing Plenary

Vienna, Austria – 21 Sept 2012

20th UN/CEFACT FORUMCLOSING PLENARY

Trade and Transport Facilitation

Program Development AreaActivities during the Week

Mats Wicktor & Viktor Dravitsa UN/CEFACT Plenary Vice Chairs

17 - 21 September 2012 Technical University, Vienna

Vice Chairs

MatsWickto

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Viktor Dravits

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Trade and

Transport Facilitati

onPDA

Domains

• International Trade Procedures (Johan Pontén)

• Transport and Logistics (Dominique Vankemmel and Michael Onder)

• Customs (SP Sahu)


PDA Structure

• Draft Recommendation on Consultation Mechanisms further developed. Project decided to revisit Rec 4 to evaluate possibility of expansion.

• Recommendation on PPP for Trade Facilitation Measures:• work done by other groups recognized • discussion paper possible outcome • recommendation not excluded

• Work plan• TFIG

ITPD


• “Cargo Tracing and Tracking” project progress report.• Multi Modal Transport (MMT) structure as a subset of the Collaborative Framework

(Core Components Library): decision to write a project proposal (by FIATA).• Workshop on “Global Electronic Freight Data Exchange”, over 15 participants, with

a goal to develop a plan to prepare and publish guidance on use of transport standards.

• Joint meeting with Supply Chain PDA: discuss overall SC model, materials for promotion on the Buy-Ship-Pay model.

• Participation in working sessions on UN Rec 14, UN Rec 36 and new framework for Core Library Feasibility.

• Projects: Status Report, Transport Instructions, Waybill and Dangerous Goods. Priorities to be reassessed at the next T&L meeting.

• ITIGG-International Transport Implementation Guidelines: update on CEFACT D11B.

• Report on cooperation with ISO committees, ISO TC204-ITS-Intelligent Transport Systems: proposal ISO 17187 Freight-X (Governance of Freight Electronic Exchanges)

• Assessment/approval of DMR’s – proposal BIC for Container EDIFACT message • Pending issues: reduced resources of the T&L Group, seeking Experts for projects

leadership, confirm support from International Transport Organizations• Interim T&L Domain meeting 26-30 November 2012 at FIATA in Zurich

Transport / Logistics

• Processing of DMR’s (5 approved, 1 withdrawn)

• Participating in joint meetings within and across the PDA’s and other domains

Customs


Recommendation 14

• Most of the writing before the end of the year. Points of consideration:• Levels of sensitivity / security assurance levels and level recommendation • Technology neutrality• Technical aspects and legal aspects to be considered • Definitions and functions should be as close to those of UNCITRAL as

possible• Annex 1 on legally enabling implementations

• Establish a template for submission of data – key characteristics to be considered

• Important to deduce a common checklist as an introduction to the annex.• Annex 2 on technical implementations enabling electronic data transfer

• Use typologies in UNCITRAL “Promoting Confidence…” document to group similar solutions and allow an easier lecture in the recommendation.

• Must consider other typologies for examples like the IATA example or GS1 example…

• Looking forward, we would appreciate participation of ex draft Rec 37 members.

• Next meeting: conference call mid-October; contact [email protected] for more info

mailto:[email protected]

Recommendation 36

• A major interest shown measured by participation• Attendees had different background of Single Window• Presentations were given of SW-implementations from

national to regional (i.e. APEC) and global concepts (i.e. GNC)

• Re-use of existing draft to Rec 36• Consultation process based on a questions template

together with a «glossy» to be circulated • To be supplemented by contributions of several group

members to tap into gained experiences• The results of the consultation will be examined by the

group during the Forum intersession and the Recommendation will be continuously progressed using e-collaboration facilities

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Supply Chain Programme Development Area

Mike Doran & Tim McGrath UN/CEFACT Plenary Vice Chairs

21 September 2012

MONDAY 17 September

PDA Planning for the weekPreparation for the eProcurement Workshop

TUESDAY 18 SeptembereProcurement Workshop Preparatory SessionFinance & Payments kick-off meeting

WEDNESDAY 19 SeptembereProcurement Workshop

THURSDAY 20 SEPTEMBERJoint meeting with Agriculture – Flower Auction Change Requests – CIIJoint meeting with Trade & Transport PDARevised Technical Framework meetings during the week

Meetings

21 September 2012

Project areas – Finance and Payments

Liaison to ISO20022 and global financial services under TC68 : *

-Remittance Advice re-submitted BJ -Factoring /reverse factoring

-Guarantees / collaterals

Liaison to standards

New standardization needs to be addressed : -Purchase Order financing (NEW)

- Inventory financing (NEW)

-Cross-industry Invoice v3 -Credit Note (NEW)

-Trade Counterparts screening (NEW)

Maintenance with respect to financial issues / coordination with SCM domain

Supply Chain Finance

Supply Chain documents(under SCM)

Work

Programme(guidelines)

Finance/Payments domain

* Await formal assignment, see later

See next slidesNo progress since 2008, need for review?

Mobile payments/ePayments?

Finance (exTBG5)

proposals

PDA: Supply ChainCoordinators: Mike Doran, Tim McGrath

21 September 2012

Accounting & Audit

Lexical NomenclatureBenoît Marchal

• Study of nomenclatures• Trust and security session• Presentation to PDA• Impact of revised technical framework

Supply Chain Management& Procurement

Bernard Longhi & Edmund Gray

21 September 2012

Project Status

eTendering, CFEM and CII ver 3

• CC harmonization finalisation: Sept 2012• BRS update: Sept 2012• Schema generation: Sept 2012• Last internal review: 24-28 Sept 2012• Public review: October 2012

• BRS and XML schema • Via Confluence website

V3 CCL publication

• Proposals for CCL publication process from the projects:• Option 1: validation by Validation team of CCs and

BIEs and published as a standard.• Option 2: validation of CCs by validation team and

published as a standard. Self-validation of BIEs by projects and published by the projects on Confluence for public review.

• Option 3: self-validation of CCs and BIEs by projects for the establishment of the Core library and published by the projects on Confluence for public review.

21 September 2012

Data Type Catalogue

Project proposal for the Revision of the Data Type Catalogue has been submitted:

Remove requirements to use specific code lists, and code list versions, that has led to challenges in implementation.

The revised data type catalogue: Allow implementers to use and validate codes in

whatever way is most appropriate for their particular circumstances or communities of use.

Supported by 3 HoDs in accordance with ODP

Project Status

Supply Chain Management

• Meeting with Dutch Horticulture Florecom• Discussed potential of capability for Auction use in

general e.g. Fish / Cattle.• Most requirements were already in the Library.• Online Meeting next week to discuss inclusion in CII and

also to start process to develop formal change requests• We attended the workshop on the new Technical

Framework. • At an internal preparation for the eProcurement workshop

presentations were made by Edmund, Jostein and Tim.

eNotification

Didier Hardy

21 September 2012


Other post-awarding services

Modularity in the eProcurement steps

eTendering BUY – SHIP – PAY

eNotification eAccountingeAuditing

ePayment

eAttestationVCD eCatalogue eReporting

Other eProcurement services

General services

Pre-awarding phases

PIN CN CAN

ePreparation eAccess eSubmission eEvaluationeAwarding

BUYeOrdering

SHIPeDelivering

PAYeInvoicingeContract

contract

eArchiving eIdentification eSignatureSecure

Transfer &storage

eLearning

Post-awarding phases

TRANSPORT

TAXES

eNotification


Other post-awarding services

Identified projects in the “Supply Chain PDA”

eTendering BUY – SHIP – PAY

eNotification eAccountingeAuditing

ePayment

eAttestationVCD eCatalogue eReporting

Other eProcurement services

General services

Pre-awarding phases

PIN CN CAN

ePreparation eAccess eSubmission eEvaluationeAwarding

BUYeOrdering

SHIPeDelivering

PAYeInvoicingeContract

contract

eArchiving eIdentification eSignatureSecure

Transfer &storage

eLearning

Post-awarding phases

TRANSPORT

TAXES

eNotification

20th Forum: feedback

• 2011: project request:• submitted

• 2012-Jan: call for participation:• submitted

• 2012-Sep: LNP – BRS draft ready

ACTIONS:Update the confluence site with LNP docuementsRequired: Input/feedback from global perspectiveNext step: Draft RSM

Technical University, Vienna21 September 2012


RegulatoryProgram Development AreaActivities during the Week

Tahseen Khan & Mats Wicktor UN/CEFACT Plenary Vice Chairs


Vice Chairs

Tahseen

Khan

Mats Wickto

r

Regulatory

PDA

Domains

• Environmental Management (Delta Pelgrim)

• Government (Ray Pisani)

• Customs (SP Sahu)


PDA Structure


REG PDA



Closing Meeting

Sectoral PDAHarm-Jan van Burg and Bruno Prepin

Vice Chairs



PDA Sectoral / Agriculture

21 September 2012

20th UN/CEFACT FORUM Closing Meeting

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

MORNING

AFTERNOON

eFood Chain

Market Analysis Presentation

Framewok Development

Pilots prototypes

OpeningPlenary session

eLabs

EDI of fisheries

catch data

Project present

ation

Validation of the agendaValidation of Minutes ( Geneva)Intermediates meetings

Project Templates( project proposals, BRS…)

News projects

eFOOD Chain Project

Livestock registration (pigs, poultry) and Livestock traceability

oreCert electronic signature and

implementation guide

EDI of fisheries catch data

Project presentation

Join meeting with PDA

Supply Chain : Flower

s Invoic

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ClosingPlenary Session

AGENDA OF THE WEEK

eLabsConf call with F.

Van Diepen

New project : European

Commission : Health and Consumer Protection/

RASFF notification exchange

eCERT electronic signature

eLabs

Conf call with F. Van Diepen

State of progress

Next steps

Developpment plan for PDA Agriculture

Review and finalise Draft

document

Final Report

• Validation of the Agenda• Validation of the minutes of last Forum• Intermediate meetings since Geneva :

• CEN - CII Invoice (august 2012)• IPPC – eCERT (september 2012)

Monday

• What will we do :• European Commission will experiment with the Dutch

implementation of their international exchange using a security system based on draft UN/CEFACT Recommendation 37.

• Based on this experiment, The Netherlands will set up draft guidelines with EC.

eCERT Electronic signature

• eLabs Session • State of progress since April 2012• Comments on the last documents• Update of the BRS• preharmonisation results for the CCs and

impact on the BIEs• Next steps :

• Finalize the harmonisation (ABIEs)• Work on RSM document• Publish the schema on CCL12B

eLABs

• Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) Notification Exchange• Review and finalize the project proposal• 3 countries agreement• Definition of editor and co-editors

• Health and Consumer Protection (will be presented in next Forum)

European Commission projects

• Results of the Market Analysis• Work on preparation of pilots prototypes :

• E-Invoicing • Food safety and secure produces• Sustainability

eFood Chain project

New projects in livestock registration (pigs, poultry) and Livestock traceabilityPresentation of the needs in Batch number identification for animal productions

Animal Registration

Electronic data Interchange of fisheries catch data Project presentation•Work on BRS documents

Next steps :•Finalization of BRS documents•Preparation of harmonization

Fish traceability

• Joint meeting with PDA Supply Chain: change requests to the CII for Flowers Auction

• Presentation and discussion on the five issues in the change request

• Solutions were discussed• Next step will be finalize the solution for the

next version of the CII Invoice (BRS and CCL)

Flowers Auction

UN/CEFACT ForumPDA: Sectoral –Travel/Tourism

Coordinator: Akio Suzuki

21 September, 2012

Progress in this week

1. SLH ( Small scaled Lodging House) Reservation Information Process We had a joint meeting with Library Maintenance Group on

qDT and code list management, and could get well guided and solved.

This project will be able to fulfill the exit criteria in the near future.

We discussed on the SLH Trial Project in AFACT region and agreed to make ourselves well prepared for this start

2.New Project Proposal The new project of Destination Travel Information (DTI)

Process was discussed. We could document the draft project proposal to submit to the Bureau.


Closing Meeting

Methodology & Technology PDA


• Workshops on:• Trusted Exchange of Business Documents• Core Library Feasibility (proposed technical

framework)

• Project team meetings:• Business Document Header & Envelope

• Specific issues for discussion:• EDIFACT maintenance procedures• Revised technical framework proposal

METHODOLOGY & TECHNOLOGY PDA

Key topics for this week

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Workshop on Trusted Exchange of Trade Documents

• Authentication of Trade Documents by Means other than Signature

• Lance Thompson (France)• Trusted trans-boundary electronic trade

document exchange• Alexander Sazanov (Russia)

• Maintaining trust within a 4-corner network model

• Kenneth Bengtsson (Denmark)• Long Term Signature profiles for EDI Data

and Electronic Documents • Andrea Caccia (Italy)

• “# Mail, the certified email address” • Mr Seongmin Lim (Ministry of

Knowledge Economy, Korea))

Identifying requirements and best practices for a framework of interoperability that establishes a trusted environment for

exchanging trade documents.


Workshop on Core Library feasibility

• Core Interoperable Foundation Library • Tim McGrath (Australia)

• Community of European Semantic Assets Repositories (CESAR) and ADMS

• Joao Frade (European Commission)

• Current Core Component Libraries status• Sue Probert (UK)

Understanding the requirements and identifying best practices for creating a core interoperable foundation library for trade facilitation.


• Why are we doing this?• UN/CEFACT is in the business of making

recommendations and standards• We need business justifications not

technical ones• Market driven

• Support from stakeholder communities

Revised Technical Framework

The current market

• Surveys, analysis and experience suggests:• Many established communities not using

UN/CEFACT standards consistently• Situation is too fragmented to change

• Then and now…• UN/EDIFACT = single SDO (UN/CEFACT)• XML = many SDOs (W3C, OASIS, ISO, IEC, GS1)

• UN/CEFACT is not the sole arbiter of XML standards for eBusiness• No ‘one’ canonical standard will work 43

What Standard(s) Can We Achieve?

• One Standard to Rule them All• Centralized• Global agreement on everything• Is my requirement everyone’s requirement?

Or• Islands of standardization

• Foundational semantics • Satisfying different communities of use• Using specific EDI or XML formats• Transform between different formats• Needs coordination

• Fragmented Standards- Who wins?

• Coordinated Standards- Common semantics- Federated approach

The Options Before Us

• One Standard– Who decides?

– What do they decide?– When do they decide?

The opportunity for UN/CEFACT

• Someone needs to facilitate the interoperability between these communities.

• UN/CEFACT can have that role• Standardize what can be agreed, to improve

interoperability• ‘core’ processes, structures, components and

data types (including code lists).• Allow communities to re-use these in their

environments.

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The role for UN/CEFACT

• A forum for coordinating a framework for interoperability for trade facilitation and eBusiness• Ensure everything is done, but …• Not to do everything

• Facilitators not owners• Support disparate community implementations• Build bridges not walls

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Restructure what we have

• Agree on what the ‘end game’ should be:• What an effective framework for UN/CEFACT

deliverables would look like.• Plan how to reach the ‘end game’

• Who does what• Stop doing things that don’t fit this plan

• Manage the completion of these projects• Get the right resources

• Manage expectations• Communicate value

The Core Interoperable Foundation Library

Bureau Program SupportLibrary Maintenance

EDIFACT: Gait BoxmanCCLs: Chris Hassler, Mary Kay BlantzSchema: Jostein FromyrCode Lists: Gait Boxman +Validation: Hidekazu Enjo

Vienna, Austria

April to September

• UN/EDIFACT• Validated and published D11B• Validated and published D12A• Prepared assessment for D12B

• CCL based on CCTS 2.01• Published D11B and schema• Published D12A (no new schema)• Developing D12B

• Submissions from Travel and Agriculture

• CCL based on CCTS 3.0• 3 projects: CII, eTendering, CFEM• Developed CCs and BIEs• Harmonized most CCs and some BIEs

EDIFACT

• Progress this week• Documented and improved steps

• From DMR submission through directory publication• Identified resources to assist Gait Boxman with

EDIFACT maintenance• Identified resources to assist Enjo-san with validation• Changed ‘timing’ of notification to ISO/TC 154 JWG 1

Note: DMR submissions go to Maarten Peelen at NEN [email protected]

EDIFACT

• Progress this week• D12B – DMR Assessment

• Approved: 12• Approved with amendments: 11

(comprised over 100 code change requests)• Rejected: 26

(25 previously postponed)• Withdrawn: 1

Core Component Libraries

• CCL based on CCTS 2.01• Finalized harmonization of Travel submission

• CCL based on CCTS 3.0• Updated change requests for CCs• Started developing validation requirements

Schema

• Schema production• Made significant progress on documentation of steps

for producing schema• Transferred some tasks from Jostein to Library

Maintenance• Automated some previously manual steps

Code Lists

• Code List Maintenance• Trade Recommendations

• Documented source and maintenance responsibility for codes

• Change requests included in UN/EDIFACT procedures (UN/LOCODE requests go directly to UNECE Secretariat)

• International Trade Procedures domain has responsibility for text in Trade Recommendations

• UNCL• Included in UN/EDIFACT procedures

Plans

• Through the Fourth Quarter• Continue regular 3-hour calls on Tuesdays• Validate and publish UN/EDIFACT D12B• Complete submission, harmonization, validation

procedures • EDIFACT• CCLs• Schema• Code Lists

• Complete and publish CCs based on CCTS 3.0• Continue harmonization of BIEs

• Complete and publish CCL based on CCTS 2.01 and schema

And, finally

We need, and will welcome, more experts to any of our work efforts.

Thank you to Christian Huemer and his team for the wonderful venue, the coffee, and the group dinner.

UN Economic Commission for Europe


Communication Pier Alberto Cucino

Bureau Vice Chair for Communications

University of TechnologyVienna, Austria – Closing Plenary - September 21, 2012


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Communication

Week achievements

• New material ( videos and photos) for the production of the “UNCEFACT Forums Visual Story”

• Press release on the Forum to be published after the Closing Plenary


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Communication

Current priorities

• Bureau Approval of the annual UNCEFACT communication strategy

• Engagement of new Countries and experts in UNCEFACT work

• Continuous update of the website www.uncefact.org

• new videos on success stories and projects to be uploaded to www.uncefact.org

• Production of the “UNCEFACT Forums Visual Story” • Further improvement of internal and external communication

http://www.uncefact.org/


Bureau Activities During the Forum



Main Activities

• Forum Facilitation and Management• Priorities – work in progress and PDA

developments• Open Sessions• Outreach to participants and organisations

attending the Forum • Communication• Projects and Recommendations• UNECE ExCom


Special PDA M&T Topic

• Presentations and exchange of views on Methodology and Technology PDA ideas concerning technical framework

• Points of clarity: – Current processes ongoing – Ideas are work-in-progress

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Concluding Remarks

THANK YOU!