8 February : UNECE has released the 2009-2 UN/LOCODE directory.

5 February : TMG has approved the UML profile for Core Components (UPCC) - for public review (Open Development Process, Step 5) until 26 April 2010. Comments should be sent to the project leader Philipp Liegl. The first review of comments will take place during the UN/CEFACT Forum meeting 26 - 30 April 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand.

27 January: UN/CEFACT is currently undertaking three gap analysis projects to determine: the current needs of stakeholders for open international standards for electronic international trade data messages and which standards stakeholders would like UN/CEFACT to deliver as priorities; an assessment of the knowledge that stakeholders have regarding the UN/CEFACT Core Component Library (CCL), which contains the data elements needed to complete messages, and the usability or otherwise of the CCL; the technical specifications that underpin message assembly and assure that messages can be interpreted by different systems.
UN/CEFACT intends to prepare a report on its findings by the end of February 2010. Stakeholders are invited to provide their views on the above topics through the dedicated questionnaire prepared by UN/CEFACT. For more information please refer to >..>..>..>..>

25 January: UN/CEFACT has approved UN/EDIFACT Directory D.09B for
publication. It can be downloaded from http://www.unece.org/trade/untdid/down_index.htm. Any comments on the above should be sent to M. Conroy (michael.conroy@wanadoo.fr)

8 January: UN/CEFACT has approved publication of UN/CEFACT XML Naming and Design Rules V3.0 of 17 December 2009. This specification enables the XML syntax binding of CCTS Version 3.0 and Data Type Catalogue Version 3.0 artefacts and is available at: http://www.unece.org/cefact/xml/UNCEFACT+XML+NDR+V3p0.pdf

17 December: UN/CEFACT has approved version 3.0 of the Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS) and version 3.0 of the Core Components Data Type Catalogue, following their approval by the TMG and ATG respectively on 27 October 2009 (see relevant announcements on this web page). For further information, see the UNECE Press Release of 17 December 2009.

27 October: TBG has approved the Cross Industry Invoice V2.0 for publication (Open Development Process (ODP) Step 7).

27 October: ATG has approved the UN/CEFACT Core Components Data Type Catalogue Version 3.0 and it is now available for download.

27 October: TMG has approved the Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS) Version 3.0 and it is now available for download.

8 November: Despite of several rounds of quality checks carried out by TBG4, ATG and ICG with the help of special software and also through manual desk-checks, the following errors still found their way into the D.09A directory publication of GOVCBR. These identified errors can be corrected as follows:
(i) Trigger segments (MEA) at 4310, 7630 and 9470 lines can only be repeated once.
(ii) DTM to be added in line 6350 into SG152 as well as SG153; and COM segment to be added into SG29, SG60 and SG228.
In the D09A publications these segments are hanging without any relation to their respective parent segment groups. These problems will be definitively resolved in the D.09B publication of the UN/EDIFACT directories.

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