24 September 2007

7-11 April 2008 12th UN/CEFACT FORUM - Mexico City

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24 September 2007 11th UN/CEFACT FORUM - Stockholm

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7-11 April 2008Mexico City

Sponsors

Hosts & Organizers

12th UN/CEFACT FORUM - Mexico City

http://www.unece.org/cefact/cf_forums/Mexico_2008/index.htm

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Closing Plenary Closing Plenary

11:00 - 12:30

• Welcome: Mike Doran

• PG Reports: Mark Crawford, Mike Conroy, Jean-Luc Champion, Christian Huemer

• Bureau Report: Stuart Feder

• Senegal Forum: Ibrahima Diagne

• Closing Remarks: Mike Doran

• Secretary General - ALADI (Latin American Integration Association)

FMGFMG

Forum Management Group Report

Chair: Mike Doran

Vice-Chair: Anders Grangard


FMG ReportFMG Report

• Participants: Forum - 247 registered

• Forum Organisation:

• B2B Gabriel, Dalynn, Monserrat & all of their team deserve our very sincere thanks

• Technicologo de Monterrey likewise



Achievements of the week

• Excellent discussions with Mexican Govt, Trade & Industry representatives• Participants from ECLAC (UN Regional Commission for Latin America and

the Caribbean)• Initial discussions with ALADI (Latin American Integration Association)• ALADI Secretary General here today• Welcome development of Latin American representation in UN/CEFACT




• UN/CEFACT Project management• Projects reviewed & prioritised for delivery in 2008 & end user “Champions” identified• Projects reviewed over time - Unrealistic projects will be discontinued• Confluence enterprise wiki tool will be available for pilot project by June 2008 -

eventually will be used for tracking all UN/CEFACT Projects

• UN/CEFACT Procedures:• Forum Procedures Team (FPT) reported• Code of Conduct & Conflict of Interest reviewed with Bureau• Forum Election Procedures Revised for Sengal elections




• FMG reviewed:Sunday• Forum planning and FMG/Bureau Agendas

Monday• Action Items from Basle Extended Bureau meeting

Wednesday• UN/CEFACT Project prioritisation 2008• UNeDocs proposed standard• Confluence wiki tool• Federated Registry Project• PG Inputs for Forum Press Release



Achievements of the week• FMG reviewed:

Thursday• European Electronic Invoice Project update• Closing Plenary• Forum Press Release• ICG report on issues preventing predictable and reliable publication of the CCL library and

Schemas • Cooperation between UN/CEFACT & UNECE Inland Transport

Working Groups in Cross Border & Trade Facilitation ActivitiesFriday• Forum Election Procedures for Senegal• eBGT Procedues• Follow up on the week’s activities


Future Forum MeetingsFuture Forum Meetings

• 13th UN/CEFACT Forum - Saly, Senegal 10-14 November2008

• 14th UN/CEFACT Forum - Rome, Italy20 - 24 April 2009

• 15th UN/CEFACT Forum - Sapporo, Japan28 September to 02 October 2009

• 16th UN/CEFACT Forum - UK (tbc)


ObjectivesObjectives

Important tasks to accomplish in the next 6 months.

• Progress project deliverables for 2008• Pilot Confluence wiki tool • Update R.650/Rev.4 with Bureau• Prepare 14th UN/CEFACT Plenary 16/17 September 2008• Prepare Public Private Partnership conference with IEC,

ISO, ITU, OASIS & UPU - 18/19 September 2008• Prepare elections - Senegal Forum, November

ATGATG

Applied Technologies Group ReportChair: Mark Crawford

Vice Chair: Jostein FrømyrVice Chair: Gait Boxman

ATGATG

• Data Type Catalogue• CCTS 2.01

• Approved CCTS 2.01 Data Type Catalogue V2.1

• CCTS 3.0• Revised definitions of concepts for Primitives

and Core Data Types for submission to CCTS during Implementation Verification

• Completed review of Primitives and Facets• Began discussion of Data Type• Developed several use cases for context

ATG1ATG1

• DMR Review• Status

• 26 Approved• 7 Approved with corrections• 2 Postponed• 3 Withdrawn

• The postponed DMRs from Stockholm are now approved

• Participation of experts remains a concern

• UML2EDIFACT Project• Met with TBG6 and TBG17 and prepared initial

documents

ATG2ATG2

• NDR version 3• Reviewed and resolved a number of key issues• Currently at ODP4

• Schema production• Joint meeting with ICG and TBG17 to address

schema production issues• XML schemas for D07B sent to ICG for audit

• In total 77 XML schemas

• Developed and delivered several use cases for context

ATG2Next Meetings

ATG2Next Meetings

• Next Face-to-Face meeting• Week of June 16, 2008 in Røros Norway

• Hosted by EdiSys Consulting AS

• Week of September 22, 2008 in Pearl River, NY• Hosted by ACORD

• Weekly conference calls• DT project Tuesday at 15:00 CET• NDR project Thursday at 15:00 CET

ICGICG

Information Content Management Group ReportChair: Mike Conroy

Vice Chair: David Dobbing

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1. UN/CEFACT Registry • Finalised the UN/CEFACT Registry Specification following public review

(ODP-5)• Document formally approved by ICG for implementation verification (ODP-6)• Finalised the Registry Phased Implementation Plan

2. UNCL Migration• Reviewed Genericode implementation and progressed draft version.

3. UNECE Recommendations • Reviewed Changes to - Rec. 20 Units of Measure Approved Revision to - Rec. 21 Codes for Packages

4. Joint Meeting with TBG17 and ATG2

• Clarified outstanding issues

5. Joint meeting with TBG17 and ATG1 • Resolved issues related to codelist identification tag assignment

ICG Report Topics carried out This Week

ICG Report Topics carried out This Week

Audit-Next StepsAudit-Next Steps

D.07B Harmonised Core Component Library Supporting RSM documents

• Material Safety Data Sheet Information – TBG1

• Associated Schema Library

D.08A• UN/EDIFACT Directory

• Harmonised Core Component Library (target 6 weeks)• CCL spreadsheet

• Supporting RSM documents

• Export Certification (e-Cert)

• Crop Data Sheet process (e-Daplos)

• Finance bulk submission

• Insurance bulk submission

• UN E-Docs (CCs)

• Associated Schema Library


Other inter-forum workOther inter-forum work

• Finalise the UN/CEFACT Registry input formats• Progress the UN/CEFACT Unified Codelist project

• XML library file containing:• UNCL (EDIFACT code lists)

• EDIFACT syntax code lists

• UN/ECE Recommendations (e.g. Rec 20)

• XML specific code lists

• Approve UN/ECE Recommendation 20 Rev 5 – Units of Measure


TBGTBG

International Trade and Business Process Group ReportChair: Jean-Luc Champion

Vice Chair: Pat Toufar

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Chair

TBG1 Supply Chain & e-Procurement C. JanssenTBG2 Digital Paper M. DillTBG3 Transportation & Logistics D. VankemmelTBG4 Customs G. DiepensTBG5 Finance St. KorsgaardTBG6 Architecture & Construction B. LonghiTBG8 Insurance A. SchultzTBG9 Travel, Tourism and Leisure P. HeiligTBG10 Healthcare Fr. van BommelTBG12 Accounting & Audit R. LemenseTBG13 Environmental D. SchwarzTBG14 Business Process Analysis I. WattTBG15 International Trade Procedures G. CraggeTBG16 Entry Points A. DechampsTBG17 Harmonisation M.K. BlantzTBG18 Agriculture Br. PrépinTBG19 e-Government J.P. Henninot

TBG Working Group


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UN/CEFACT

TBG’s WG

Outcome of the Week


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• Approved Submission Guidelines & Procedures• Approved single spreadsheet

• For submissions and publication• Approved TBG12 Accounting Entry submission

• For CCL 08B• CCL 08A in Audit (ICG)• Implementation Support and Standards Maintenance Project• TBG16 to TBG steering a first draft of the Change Request

procedure on XML « documents »• Only two TBG 4 DMRs were postponed (no representatives of

Customs)

TBG Outcome of the weekTBG Outcome of the week


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Project statusProject status

PROJECT LEAD STATUS READY(*) CCL• eCatalogue Karina Duvinger BRS Jun 08 09A• Scheduling Samy Scemama BRS+RSM May 08 08B• Ordering Martin Forsberg BRS+RSM May 08 08B• Despatch / Rec. Jörg Walther BRS+RSM May 08 08B• Invoice Klaus Förderer BRS+RSM May 08 08B• Simple Invoice Gilles Brandel BRS+RSM Jun 08 08B• Remittance Advice Mounir El-Khoury BRS+RSM May 08 08B• eMarket research Helge Simonsen BRS ready 09A• Material Safety Data Delta Pelgrim Schemas Almost 08A

available• Quotation Gilles Brandel Proposal in progress Jun 08 09A• Trade Data for CustomsEdmund Gray Proposal in progress Jun 08 09A• Order Status Report Thomas Lyons BRS+RSM Dec 08 09A

RSM / CCL EDITING TEAM Pat Toufar, Coen Janssen, Martin Forsberg, Gilles Brandel, Thomas Lyons

• 08A Submission finalised• 08B submission May 08


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• Core Components Transport joint submission TBG2/3 harmonized by TBG17 ready for publishing in CCL08.A

• BRS for International Forwarding & Transport endorsed and released by TBG 3 for review through the UN/CEFACT procedure

• Define approach to develop transport subsets from SHIP BIM (UNeDocs) and joint work with TBG2 to define BIM methodology

• GS1: initiated joint work to harmonize their Business model with the TBG3 BRS Forwarding/Transport within the LIM initiative (Logistics Interoperability Model - eCom Standards Working Group)


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• Insurance CCL• Finalize submission III by June, Norwich meeting• Finalize submission IV by August, Hamburg meeting• Start Motor Claims data by end of 2008, New York meeting

• 5 project proposals submission validated by TBG 18 • Livestock Life Record Project• Electronic Data Exchange Proxy • Electronic Data Interchange of laboratory analysis in agriculture and in the field of agri-food• Tracking and Tracing Fish • Cattle registration and movement data exchange and animal passport

• Joint Project TBG 12/TBG18• Accounting Reporting – Joint Project Amendment



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• Trade Facilitation Implementation GuideTrade Facilitation Implementation Guide• Approved Project Implementation Plan and outline of GuideApproved Project Implementation Plan and outline of Guide

• NOW THE WORK CAN BEGIN ON PRODUCING THE GUIDENOW THE WORK CAN BEGIN ON PRODUCING THE GUIDE

• Revision ofRevision of• Rec 6 - Annex for e-InvoicingRec 6 - Annex for e-Invoicing

• Rec 11 - Dangerous GoodsRec 11 - Dangerous Goods

• Developments onDevelopments on• Rec 34 - Data Simplification and Standardisation for International TradeRec 34 - Data Simplification and Standardisation for International Trade

• Rec 35 – Legal Guidance for Single Window in International TradeRec 35 – Legal Guidance for Single Window in International Trade



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• 2 “bundles” (BRS, RSM, XML Schemas, Code Lists) will be posted on TBG6 Web

• eArchiving status • Draft BRS under internal review (confirmed in June)

• Joint project ePP (Public Procurement)• Call for participation to be sent by Secretariat on next Monday

• Transfrontier Movement of Waste BRS approved by TBG StC and TBG17 submission in progress


TMGTMG

Techniques & Methodologies Group Report

Acting Chair: Christian Huemer

ProjectsProjects

• UCM • Received and began reviewing 17 use cases• In response to considerable interest, TMG invites further use

case submissions through 31 May.

• CCMA• Discussed CCMA alignment with UMM 2.0 with UMM team

• UMM 2.0• Internal Draft completed and will be posted to the website next

week• Comments received by 16 June will be considered by the project

team during the June interim meeting


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Upcoming MeetingsUpcoming Meetings

• TMG Interim Meeting• 23-27 June• Berlin, Germany

• TMG Interim Meeting• 08-12 September• Tokyo, Japan

• Forum• Dakar, Senegal• 10-14 November


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BureauBureau

UN/CEFACT Plenary Bureau Report

Plenary Chair: Stuart FederPlenary Vice Chairs: Tahseen Khan

Mark PalmerChristina Rahlen

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Bureau Accomplishments at the 12th Forum• Met with delegations and technical experts to understand

issues and recommendations for strategy and Programme of Work

• Worked with the FMG and Secretariat on the Programme of Work for 2010 – 2011

• Established objectives for UN/CEFACT 14th Plenary (September 16-17, 2008)

• Identified organizations adopting UN/CEFACT standards to present at the 14th Plenary

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Bureau Accomplishments at the 12th Forum (continued)

• Reviewed and updated the Code of Conduct to incorporate recommendations from IPR Task Team Report

• Constructive meetings with representatives of Mexican government, trade and industry

• Discussed input to the UN/ECE Executive Committee and the Committee on Trade

• Discussed opportunities for improved support by the Secretariat for UN/CEFACT



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electronic Business, Government and Trade

(eBGT) initiative• an 18-month initiative to facilitate achieving priority deliverables• to support the FMG/Bureau/Plenary and stakeholders• clarifying priorities• identifying gaps• improving outreach

• eBGT Team completed planning for launch in June 2008

• more information to follow



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