28th UN/CEFACT Forum · Finance & Payment Procuremt Supply Chain Mgmt Accounting / Audit Environmt Mgmt e-Governmt Agriculture Insurance Travel & Tourism Utilities Raffaele FANTETTI

28th UN/CEFACT ForumBangkok, Thailand26-30 September 2016

Opening remarks

• Surangkana Wayuparb, Executive Director, ETDA

• Susan Stone, Director, Trade, Investment and Innovation Division, United Nations ESCAP

• Virginia Cram-Martos, Director, EconomicCooperation and Trade Division, UNECE

• Lance Thompson, Chair, UN/CEFACT


Chair

Lance Thompson

Vice Chairs

• Anders Grangard

• Estelle Igwe

• Harm Jan van Burg

• Raffaele Fantetti

• Sue Probert

• Tahseen Khan

BUREAU ACTIVITIES

Recommendationsarea

ITP-PDA

Int’l Trade Procedures

Single Window

TFA Focal Point

TFIG Focal Point

Estelle IGWE

Creates, Maintains, Advices on …

recommendations and guidance material

Standards area

Sectoral PDARegulatory

PDABuy/Pay PDA

Finance & Payment

Procuremt

Supply Chain Mgmt

Accounting/ Audit

EnvironmtMgmt

e-Governmt

Agriculture

Insurance

Travel & Tourism

Utilities

Raffaele FANTETTI

TahseenKHAN

Harm Jan VAN BURG

Ship PDA

Transport & Logistics

Customs

SuePROBERT

Code List Focal Point

UNLOCODE Focal Point

ValidationFocal Point

Creates, Maintains, Advices on … business

and technical standards developement

Support area

M+T PDA

Specification

(CCTS, UMM, NDR)

Syntax (XML, EDIFACT,

SBDH, Data Type Catalogue)

Library Maintenance

Anders GRANGÅRD

Creates, Maintains, Advices on … the

support tools for the other areas of activity

Reminder on UN/CEFACT participation

• All experts (and Bureau members) participate within UN/CEFACT in their own capacity and do not represent any organization or country. (In accordance with the UN/CEFACT Code of Conduct)

• All participants within UN/CEFACT respect the relevant IPR policy.

• UN/CEFACT is a collaborative environment where public sector experts and private sector experts work together on trade facilitation and e-business standards for the global trading community.

Activities since the last Forum

• One face-to-face meeting and bi-weekly conf calls

• Some of the activities of the Bureau since April:• Preparation of a re-write of the Mandate/Terms of

Reference

• Preparation of the Programme of Work (PoW) 2017-2018

• Following more closely project initiatives• Bureau approval of projects within two weeks on average

• Dealing quickly with enquiries received

• Two quarterly reports to Heads of Delegation

• Two extended Bureau calls with Domain Coordinators

Programme for the week

• Opening Session & Closing Session

• Working on the PoW 2017-2018• Tuesday afternoon in MR-D

• Anyone may join if they are available

• Open Bureau Meeting on Tuesday evening• Quickly go over Collaborative UN/CEFACT Environment (CUE)

• Quickly go over project progression

• Address any questions or concerns from experts

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MINI CONFERENCE

PROGRAMME

Monday, 26 September

Women in Trade Facilitation, 13:30 – 17:00• Organized by International Trade Procedures

Domain

Tuesday, 27 September

Electronic Certificates in Agriculture, 08:30 – 12:00

• Organized by Agriculture Domain

The UN/CEFACT Reference Data Model: A new way to facilitate eBusinesscommunication, 13:30 – 17:00

• Organized by Supply Chain Management Domain

Wednesday, 28 September

Presentation of the Activities of the UN/CEFACT Travel and Tourism Domain, 08:30 – 12:00

• Organized by Travel and Tourism Domain

Core Principles of the Operation of Single Windows, 13:30 – 17:00

• Organized by Single Window Domain

Thursday, 29 September

Sustainable Fishery Management and Combatting Illegal Fisheries through Information Management (FLUX), 08:30 – 12:00

• Organized by Agriculture Domain

Transboundary Movements of Waste,13:30 – 17:00

• Organized by EnvironmentalManagement Domain

Friday, 30 September

Trade Finance as a Tool for Trade Facilitation,09:30 – 12:30

• Organized by Finance and Payments Domain


Domain Coordinator

Paloma Bernal Turnes

Project Leaders

Maurice Diamond

Somnuk Keretho

SP Sahu

ITP PDAINTERNATIONAL TRADE

PROCEDURES DOMAIN

Activities since the last Forum and Programme for the weekProjects

• Public Private Partnership in Trade Facilitation (PPP in TF): second Public Review completed, approved by the Bureau and will be presented for intersessionalapproval

• Revision of Recommendation 1 – United Nations LayoutKey (UNLK): in Public Review

• Recommendation on Trade and Transport Facilitation Monitoring Mechanisms (TTFMM): in projectdevelopment

• Women in Trade Facilitation: in project development


Domain Coordinator

Andrea Fehr Hampton

Project Leaders

Abdoulaye Basse

Andrea Fehr Hampton

Remy Marchand

Richard Morton

ITP PDASINGLE WINDOW DOMAIN

Activities since the last Forum and Programme for the week

• Recommendation 36 on Single WindowInteroperability: in Public Review

• Core Principles of Single Window Operation: in draft development

• Single Window Vocabulary Project: in draftdevelopment


Focal Point

Jari Salo

ITP PDATFIG FOCAL POINT


• Fine-tuning the TFIG Data Maintenance process proposal

• DMR process description

• DMR “form”

• DMR filling Guidance


• Continue elaborating the process for TFIG Data Maintenance Requests• User interface within CUE

• Discussions with Domain Coordinators about TFIG data maintenance topics• Topics to be updated

• Topics to be added

• Topics to be deleted (if any)


Domain Coordinator

Liliana Fratini Passi

Project Leaders

Revised Remittance Advice project: Hisanao Sugamata

Purchase Order Financing Request: Fabio Sorrentino

Integrating Trade Finance and Supply Chain Finance into Trade Facilitation: Harm Jan van Burg

BUY/PAY PDAFINANCE AND PAYMENT

DOMAIN


• Project status discussion (ODP 4), BRS public review and CCL additional requirements discussion

• Next step: Publication (ODP 6)

Revised Remittance Advice project

• Business Requirements Specification (BRS) finalization; data model completion and discussion (ODP 3)

• Next step: BRS Public Review (ODP 4)

Purchase Order Financing

• Alignment with ISO in the cross-border standardization of the finance area

• Next step: work with secretariat to establish a clear understanding of roles

Liaison with ISO TC68

• Finalisation of Green Paper

• Next step: Project Exit (ODP 5) and formulating a proposal for a follow-up recommendation project

Trade Finance as a Tool for Trade

Facilitation


Domain Coordinator

Jostein Frømyr

Project Leader

Raffaele Fantetti

BUY/PAY PDAPROCUREMENT DOMAIN

Projects

Name Project Lead/Editors ODP stage

Background Research on Public Procurement Using International Standards

Raffaele FantettiEdmund GrayCarmen Cicirello

2 (Requirements

gathering)

Initiated questionnaire on the “Background research” project• Responses received from 10 countries


• Background Research on Public Procurement Using International Standards• Meeting on Tuesday morning

• Review feedback to questionnaire

• Planning of next steps

• Joint activities with Supply Chain Management Domain


Domain Coordinator

Edmund Gray

Project Leaders

Natascha Rossner

Samy Scemama

Rolf Wessel

BUY/PAY PDASUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

DOMAIN

Projects

Name Project Lead/Editors ODP stage

Cross Industry Scheduling Samy ScemamaHisanao SugamataKarina DuvingerEdmund Gray

2(Requirements

gathering)

Extension of Cross Industry Invoice technical artefacts

Natascha RossnerAndreas PelekiesGerhard Heemskerk

5(Project exit)

Supply Chain Reference Data Model (SCRDM)

Rolf WesselGerhard Heemskerkand others

4(Public review)


• Review new projects

• Promotion and marketing

• Joint meetings with other Domains


Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

AM1

Welcome and opening

plenary

CI-SC Scheduling

project

Procurement research project

SCRDM & MMT Project

work as needed

AM2 SCRDMprocedures for

publication

SCRDM & Procurement

Lunch

PM1 Planning the week

SCRDM Mini Conference

CII technical artefacts

Promotion/ marketing

Closing plenaryPM2

New projectsSCRDM project

Wrap-up

Joint agenda for Procurement and Supply Chain Management Domains


Domain Coordinators

Benoît Marchal

Eric Cohen

Project Leader

Benoît Marchal

REGULATORY PDAACCOUNTING AND AUDIT

DOMAIN


• Finalize public review

• Submit Journal Book to harmonization

• Integrated into CCL 16B

• Next step: Project Exit


Domain Coordinator

Norbert Pfaffinger

REGULATORY PDAENVIRONMENTAL

MANAGEMENT DOMAIN


Transboundary Movements of Waste

Continued EDI implementation efforts with several European countries


Meetings on Wednesday and Thursday

Transboundary Movements of Waste

• Prepare future work

• Review and plan implementation efforts

• Laboratory analysis results


Domain Coordinator

Frans van Diepen

Project Leaders

Henk Zwinkels

Niki Dieckmann

Philippe Loopuyt

Ben Kloppenborg

SECTORAL PDAAGRICULTURE DOMAIN

Agriculture Domain scope andactivity


• Workshop track and trace 23 August

• Draft BRS for :• Track and Trace plant, plant product and animal

products

• eCROP

• Update FLUX and eLAB

• Extend RASFF first draft allerts on foodextensions to non-food / irregularities in textile

• Participation in the UN sustainability network


Monday

• Agriculture domain strategy, communication and cooperation with other domains and organizations

Wednesday• Track and trace projects

animal products, plant and plant productstrack and trace framework

• eCROPthe UNGC / ITC sustainability network

Friday• RASFF rapid alert system feed and food

• Maintenance and implementation issues on eLAB, eCERT,FLUX, etc


Domain Coordinator

Akio Suzuki (Acting)

Project Leaders

SLH Process Project: Akio Suzuki

DTI Process Project: Giljun Ko

SECTORAL PDATRAVEL AND TOURISM

DOMAIN

Activities since the last ForumWe had the AFACT TT&L WG and twice Con-Call meetings on:

1. Developing Small-scale Lodging House (SLH) related systems for the International Pilot Project

- Global-hub system for information store and retrieval

- SLH reservation systems of participating countries

2. Contemplating Destination Travel Information (DTI) related standard development process

- Who and how to do when the Project Lead is not available

3. Discussing experiential and sustainable tourism for regional vitalization/revitalization as emerging tourism

- Hearing from the member countries the needs of the said tourism

Programme for the weekIn T/T Domain we will work on the following items.

1. SLH International Pilot Project related matters

- Implementing the pilot project among member countries

2. DTI related matters

- Setting up the standard developing schedule and assigning roles among member countries

3. Experiential and sustainable tourism related matters

- Discussing further and making clear what they really mean

- Discussing on the need whether T/T Domain should have a new project to create related standards

4. Other items

-Web sites update matters

-Collaboration with other organizations, ISO, etc.

-New technologies in the domain, etc.


Domain Coordinator

Rudi Bauer

Project Leaders

David Hesketh – MMT Project

Evgeniya Iafaev – eCMR Project

David Roff – Data Pipeline Project

Michael Shroeder – VERMAS EDIFACT Project

SHIP PDATRANSPORT & LOGISTICS

DOMAIN


• Publication of new VERMAS EDIFACT UNSM

• Close collaboration of Multi Modal Transport (MMT) project team with the BUY PDA SCRDM project team

• New eCMR project launched to develop an electronic Road Consignment Note in conjunction with the IRU which will be the first document derived from the MMT reference data model

• eCMR technical meeting August

• Newly approved project to develop the second document based on the MMT to provide a carrier structure to collate and distribute pre-arrival data of interest to cross-border agencies

• Domain representation at EU DGMOVE and WCO meetings to promote interest in the MMT project

Planned Activities for the week

• Key objective to reach out to encourage new membership from region

• Meeting with Thai National Shippers' Council (TNSC)

• Project presentations and progression of the work

• Support for the SCRDM mini-conference and joint project meeting

Programme for the Week

Morning Afternoon

Monday Opening PlenaryMeeting with Thai National Shippers'

Council (TNSC)

TuesdayReviewing and developing the domain

work planAttend Supply Chan Reference Model

Mini-conference

Wednesday eCMR projectProject overview and new project

proposals

ThursdayJoint meetings with Supply Chain

Management and Customs domainsAttend Transboundary

Movements of Waste Mini-conference

Friday Multi Modal Transport (MMT) project Closing Plenary


Focal Point

Enjo Hidekazu

SHIP PDAVALIDATION FOCAL POINT


• Final validation of D16A XML schema set (115 message types)

• Validation of D16B Core Component Library (CCL):• Core Components• Message Business Information Entities


• Validation of D16B XML schema set

• Discussion of UNECE Recommendation 20 –Units of Measure – maintenance and validation


Vice Chair

Anders GRANGÅRD

Focal Points

Specification: Christian HUEMER

Syntax : Gait BOXMAN

Library Maintenance : Mary Kay BLANTZ

Validation : Hidekazu ENJO

METHODOLOGY AND

TECHNOLOGY PDA

M&T PDA activities this week

• Introductions

• Project review• Library Publication Format Project • Procedure for CCTS 2.01 & CCBDA 1.0 & NDR 2.1 Artefacts Publication

Project • Procedures for Reference Data Model & Associated Artefacts

Publication Project

• Technical specifications• SBDH/BDE – Tuesday morning

• Library review project (Mon pm)• Syntax, Library Maintenance, Validation• Sessions with other PDAs• WebEx/GoTo

M&T PDA Agenda this week

http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/cefact/cf_forums/Bangkok_2016/28th_Forum_agenda_MethodologyTechnology.pdf

http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/cefact/cf_forums/Bangkok_2016/28th_Forum_agenda_MethodologyTechnology.pdf


Focal Point

Christian Huemer

M&T PDASPECIFICATION FOCAL POINT

Projects

• Library Publication Format Project

• Procedure for CCTS 2.01 & CCBDA 1.0 & NDR 2.1 Artefacts Publication Project

• Procedures for Reference Data Model & Associated Artefacts Publication Project

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Focal Point

Gait Boxman

M&T PDASYNTAX FOCAL POINT


UN/EDIFACT• Processed 236 DMRs:

• 77 approved • 113 approved with modifications • 23 postponed • 2 rejected• 21 withdrawn

UN/XML• Based on CCL D16A• Published 113 messages


Focal Point

Mary Kay Blantz

M&T PDALIBRARY MAINTENANCE FOCAL

POINT


CCL D16A (based on CCTS 2.01 (ISO 15000-5))• Published D16A, including updates for

• Multi-model transport

• Supply Chain: various

• Published D16A.1 • CCs and Reference BIEs

• Based on SCRDM (Supply Chain Reference Data Model)


CCL D16B (based on CCTS 2.01 (ISO15000-5))• Reviewed/harmonized submissions from

• Accounting

• Agriculture

• Fisheries

• eLabs

• Finance

• Supply Chain

• Transport


CCL 16B

CCs: 7,489

BIEs: 11,731

qDTs: 161

XML Messages: 114


Focal Point

Hidekazu Enjo

M&T PDAVALIDATION FOCAL POINT


Validation is responsible for UN/EDIFACT, the Core Component Library, and UN/XML

Validated and authorized publication of

UN/EDIFACT D16A

CCL D16A and schema


CCL 16B Validation

7489 CCs

7548 Message BIEs

161 Message qDTs

21 uDTs

Logistical announcements by the secretariat

• Coffee breaks

• Lunches

• Social dinner (Wednesday)

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