Background

UN/CEFACT has created a suite of recommendations in the Single Window area. The principal idea behind the Single Window concept is to make international trade regulatory information provision to traders and their service providers as little burdensome as possible, as well as the sharing and processing of the received information to the respective authorities. The official definition of Single Window is given in Recommendation N°33.

This Domain maintains the suite of the recommendations published in the Single Window area. These include, in addition to the introduction of the concept and guidance on how to establish a Single Window operation, recommendations for data simplification and standardization for international trade (Recommendation N°34), establishing a legal framework for international trade Single Window (Recommendation N°35), and a recommendation on establishing interoperability between two or more national Single Window systems (Recommendation N°36, upcoming).

Agenda

Presentations:

• Planning for the Next Project and Charting the Way Forward by Neelima Pamulapati 
• WP.6 Project - Integrated Risk Management in Single Window Systems by Lance Thompson and Valentin Nikonov