27th UN/CEFACT Forum
General background
The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and E-business (UN/CEFACT) organises the 27th session of the UN/CEFACT Forum at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland from 25 to 29 April 2016.
Priorities at the Forum are:
- Advancing current projects and domain activities
- Ongoing maintenance tasks (such as UN/EDIFACT Data Maintenance Requests)
- Formulating and approving a series of new projects to be conducted within the framework of the approved programme of work
- Continuing liaison and cooperation activities with external organizations (governmental as well as industry and standards consortia)
- Advancing UN/CEFACT’s current and forthcoming technical framework
Forum sessions are held bi-annually in different locations throughout the world. Information on previous Forums is available at: http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=3145
Schedule and Agendas
Schedule (last update on 27 April 2016):
- Weekly Schedule (full week)
- Morning Schedule
- Afternoon Schedule
- International Trade Procedures PDA
- Methodology and Technology PDA
- Sectoral Domain
- Supply Chain PDA
- Regulatory PDA
Tuesday 26 April: swap of room (all day)
E.3023 : Environment Domain
E.2060: Agriculture Domain
Wednesday 27 April: change of meeting room for the Transport and Logistics Domain
9:00 - 10:30, Room E.2060 : Joint meeting Environment and Transport & Logistics Domains
11:00 - 12:30, Room E.2070-2072: Joint project session: SCRDM and Transport & Logistics Domain
14:00 - 17:30, Room E.3008-3010: Transport & Logistics Domain
13:30 - 14:00, Salle XXIV: Cyber Security Workshop
Forum Presentations
Welcome Brochure
Beginners Session
Opening Session
Regulatory Domain
e-Government: Workshop on Cyber Security
Sectoral Domain
Agriculture: Traceability of Agricultural Products
FLUX Project
Mini Conferences
UN/CEFACT Mini-Conference on Trade and Transport Facilitation Monitoring Mechanisms (TTFMM)
- Welcome, Paloma Bernal Turnes
- The advantages of implementing TTFMM, Mohammad Saeed
- TTFMM: needs, functions and experiences, Tengfei Wang
- OECD Trade Facilitation Indicators: structure and impacts, Silvia Sorescu
- The OECD STRI: Logistics Services, Massimo Geloso Grosso
- Logistics Performance Monitoring from Micro Data, Jean Francois Arvis
- Export Diversification Effects of the WTO TFA, Simon Neumueller
- Global Survey on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade Implementation, Tania Garcia-Millan
UN/CEFACT Mini-Conference on electronic maritime safety regulatory information exchange standards
- Opening
- MSW and Norwegian Project, IMO
- EU Directive 2010/65 on MSW, IPCSA
- MSW - Sweden
- MSW - Belgium, Port of Antwerp
- Electronic Certification, UN/CEFACT Agriculture Domain
- FAL Compendium, IMO and WCO
- Case study of relationship between MSW and Trade SW, Morocco
- IMO Electronic Certificates, IMO
- South Korean ship security project proposal, KLNET
- FAL Compendium Work Session
- VERMAS Work Session
UN/CEFACT Mini-Conference on sustainable fishery management through information management (FLUX)
- Opening, Virginia Cram-Martos
- FLUX: The business case, Ben Kloppenborg
- Regional Fisheries Management Organization, Gylfi Geirsson
- Control and Enforcement Systems: Implementation and issues, Krisada Sangpetchsong
- Framework for Fisheries Research Data, Mark Brady
- Introduction to the Standard, Niclas Andreasson
- FLUX User Community, Niclas Andreasson