Background
This event is organized in collaboration between the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the Institute of Control Systems at the Ministry of Science and Education of the Azerbaijan Republic, and the Ukrvneshtrans association as the fourteenth UNECE seminar on trade and transport facilitation held for the first time outside of Odessa, Ukraine.
The participants in this seminar will include experts with technical skills from the relevant national agencies dealing with trade regulations, transport and transit procedures, as well as the business community (traders, transporters, freight forwarders, IT developers, etc.). This will be a capacity-building seminar for building skills in the target countries to implement innovation practices, including technology transfer for the implementation of electronic data and document equivalent exchange, aligned to UN/CEFACT standards and supporting tools.
Discussions on the contribution of UN standards and involvement of international organizations and the private sector will help formulate the conclusions and recommendations on the next steps to support relevant initiatives in the region.
Target audience
The participants in this seminar will include experts with technical skills from the relevant national agencies dealing with trade regulations, transport and transit procedures, as well as the business community (traders, transporters, freight forwarders, IT developers, etc.). This will be a capacity-building seminar for building skills in the target countries to implement innovation practices, including technology transfer for the implementation of electronic data and document equivalent exchange, aligned to UN/CEFACT standards and supporting tools.
Downloads:
- Agenda: English Русский
- Information Note
Background Documents:
- Draft Detailed Roadmap for the Digital Transformation of Multimodal Data and Document Exchange in Trans-Caspian Supply Chains Using UN Standards and Legal Norms
- Joint Ministerial Statement - Meeting of Ministers of SPECA Participating States
- Conclusions and Recommendation from the Internation High-level Conference on Digital Transformation of Information Exchange in Supply Chains Using United Nations Standards
- Webinar: International Seminar on Trade and Transport Facilitation “EU Electronic Freight Transport Information Regulation and UN/CEFACT Semantic Standards and Multimodal Transport Reference Data Model
- UNECE Package of Standards and Supporting Tools
Please contact Mr. Mario Apostolov for further details.