10 December 2018: The Core Component Library (CCL) D18B and XML Schema D18B have been validated by the Validation Focal Point and approved for publication. They are now available on the UN/CEFACT website.
10 December 2018: This is to announce a 60-day public review until February 11, 2019 concerning the eQuality Certificate project. Please use the Public Comment Log provided to facilitate the preparation of a Disposition Log by the Project Team.
1 November 2018: The UN/EDIFACT directory version D.18B has been validated by the Validation Focal Point and approved for publication. It is now available for browsing in the UN/EDIFACT section of the UN/CEFACT website and can be downloaded from the UN/EDIFACT Directories.
23 October 2018: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the “Sustainable Textile and Leather Traceability and Transparency Project". Improving traceability and transparency has become a key priority in the garment and footwear industry, in order to increase its ability to manage its value chains more effectively and sustainably. This project aims to bring together the main actors for the industry, including key players from international organisations, governments, private sector associations, NGOs and Accademia. If you would like more information, please contact the project lead: Maria-Teresa Pisani.
23 October 2018: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the “e-Quality Certificate Project.” The objective of this project is to standardize the business processes, the business transactions and the information entities of request, the issuing and the exchange of the electronic quality certificate along the supply chain. If you would like more information, please contact the project lead, Johan den Engelse.
12 September 2018: UN/CEFACT is pleased to announce a 60-day public review of the Single Submission Portal Recommendation. If you would like to submit comments, please use the appropriate template provided on the Public Review page and send to the Project Editor on or before 12 November 2018.
22 July 2018: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the project “Internet of Things for Trade Facilitation”.The possibility of connected devices collecting and connecting information to the rest of the international supply chain has generated a number of potential uses that can facilitate and drive efficiency, notably in trade, agriculture, climate control, water / energy management, healthcare, supply chain, etc. UN/CEFACT has just launched a project to study how this technology can be used to facilitate trade and related processes, how current UN/CEFACT deliverables can be used by IoT applications and study possible use cases for this technology. If you would like more information, please contact the project lead: Mrs. Virginia Cram Martos.
20 July 2018: UN/CEFACT is pleased to announce a 60-day public review of the Sustainable Procurement Recommendation. If you would like to submit comments, please use the appropriate template provided on the Public Review page and send to the Project Lead on or before 20 September 2018.
12 July 2018: Registration to Hangzhou Forum is now open.
5 July 2018: UN/CEFACT would like to remind users that the cut-off date for submissions of new DMRs for UN/CCL D.18B and UN/EDIFACT D.18B is the 20 August 2018. For more information, please see the UN/EDIFACT DMR webpage. And that the cut-off date for submissions of UN/LOCODE requests for release 2018-2 is the 30 September 2018. For more information please see the UN/LOCODE webpage.
2 July 2018: UNECE Secretariat has released the 2018-1 UN/LOCODE directory.
22 May 2018: This is to announce a 60-day public review of the Whitepaper on technical applications of Blockchain to UN/CEFACT deliverables. Please use the Public Comment Log provided to facilitate the preparation of a Disposition Log by the Project Team. Comment are welcome using the appropriate template on or before 21 July 2018.
22 May 2018: Following a small reorganization of Domains, the UN/CEFACT Bureau is happy to announce a call for additional candidatures for Domain Coordinators for the following groups: the TFIG Focal Point, the WTO-TFA Focal Point, the International Supply Chain Orchestration Focal Point, the Insurance Domain, the Cross-Border Management Domain, Project Review and Support Focal Point, Communication Team Focal Point. The Bureau nominates domain Coordinators and Focal Points for a period of two years, renewable. The Terms of Reference of Domains and Domain Coordinators are available.If you are interested in proposing your candidature. Deadline for submissions is 24 June 2018.
14 May 2018: The UN/EDIFACT directory version D.18A has been validated by the Validation Focal Point and approved for publication. It is now available for browsing in the UN/EDIFACT section of the UN/CEFACT website and can be downloaded from the UN/EDIFACT Directories.
The Core Component Library (CCL) D18A and XML Schema D18A have been validated by the Validation Focal Point and approved for publication. They are now available on the UN/CEFACT website.
10 May 2018: The 24th Plenary session of UN/CEFACT took place in Geneva on 30 April and 1 May 2018. The meeting gave an opportunity to UN Member States to review the work carried out by UN/CEFACT since the 23rd Plenary session. One of the main objectives of the meeting was to elect a new Chair for UN/CEFACT for the period 2018-2021. The Plenary elected Ms. Sue Probert (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) as the new Chair of UN/CEFACT. Ms. Probert has already served as a Vice-Chair of UN/CEFACT in charge of the SHIP PDA, as well as Vice-Chair of the Forum Management Group (in the previous structure) and has been a very active expert within UN/CEFACT for over 25 years.
18 April 2018: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the new project entitled "IMO FAL Electronic Compendium Mapping" Project. The International Maritime Organization have published since 1965 the Convention of Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic (FAL). This convention contains standards and recommended practices on formalities, documentary requirements and procedures which should be applied on arrival, stay and departure of ships and ports. Standard forms were developed for these declarations. Over time, UN/EDIFACT messages were developed to correspond to each of these forms and integrated into the IMO FAL Compendium. This Compendium has developed the business processes associated with the flow of information relative to these forms. In recent years, IMO has approved a project to update the FAL Compendium and align it with their Single Window project. To this aim, they have developed an independent reference data model of the requirements from these forms which will be published in the new compendium. IMO has agreed to add annexes within the new Compendium which will provide mappings from this independent reference data model to international standards including the UN Core Component Library, UN/EDIFACT and the UN/CEFACT Multi-Modal Transport Reference Data Model (MMT-RDM). The current project aims to create the mappings and updated guides to satisfy the request to complete the UN/CEFACT annexe to the IMO FAL Compendium. If you are interested in joining this project, please contact the project lead, Mr. Nico De Cauwer.
5 April 2018: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the project "Revision of Recommendation 16 - UN/LOCODE. This cornerstone recommendation has helped many industries to facilitate international trade and transport, as well as extended to other areas, such as maritime safety and environmental protection. The current recommendation was issued as the third edition in 1998, which applies for the scenario of several decades ago, but not for today's business needs. Therefore, the recommendation does require updating to today's context and addressing new business needs. The project team will meet during the UN/CEFACT Forum on Friday 27 April 2018. If you would like more information, please read and be aware of Project Leader's email and contact with Muhammet Alper Keçeli
5 April 2018: UN/CEFACT would like to remind users that the cut-off date for submissions of UN/LOCODE requests for release 2018-1 is the 15 April 2018. For more information please see the UN/LOCODE webpage.
9 March 2018: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the project "Revision of Recommendation 33 - Single Window". This cornerstone recommendation has helped many economies approach Single Window implementation as well as providing the basis for many other organizations' understanding of Single Window. The base principles have stood the test of time, but the text does require updating to today's context and removing some outdated examples. The project team will meet during the UN/CEFACT Forum on Tuesday 24 April. If you would like more information, please contact the project lead: Mats Wicktor.
6 March 2018: UN/CEFACT is pleased to announce the opening of the 60-days Public review of the Multi Modal Transport Reference Data Model (MMT RDM). All eventual comments can be addressed using the prescribed template by 05 May 2018.
2 March 2018: UN/CEFACT is please to launch a call for participation for the new project entitled "Waste management and Waste Analysis" Project. Waste management is essential to protecting human health and the environment. This project aims to create standardized electronic formats for the exchange of messages related to waste management and waste analysis. If you would like more information, please contact the project lead: .Norbert Pfaffinger.
2 March 2018: UN/CEFACT is please to launch a call for participation for the new project entitled "Buy-Ship-Pay Reference Data Model" Project This complete and focused subset of the UN Core Component Library aims cover the needs of the entire buy-ship-pay model and enable better coordination and harmonization between the International Supply Chain RDM and the Multi-Modal Transport RDM. If you are interested in joining this project, please contact the project lead, Mr. Zisis Palaskas
2 March 2018: UN/CEFACT is please to announce the publication of its electronic Road Consignment Note (eCMR) standard . This standard provides a free, open specification that will help parties to implement the UNECE Additional Protocol to the CMR Convention concerning the eCMR. For more information, please see the press release.
15 February 2018: UN/CEFACT would like to remind users that the cut-off date for submissions of new DMRs for UN/CCL D.18A and UN/EDIFACT D.18A is the 2 March 2018.
2 January 2018: UN/CEFACT is pleased to announce the launch of a project on Sustainable Tourism. This project aims to enhance rural tourism as a stand alone activity basing on experience programs for example, which can help to vitalize or revitalize the area. This project shall develop a Green Paper which shall explore how sustainable tourism would function in vitalizing local economies, provide a definition of sustainable tourism, and bring to light some examples of experience programs. If you are interested in joining this project, please contact the project lead, Mr. Sachin A Mehta.