Background

The “United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations” (UN/LOCODE) is an international standard to identify locations uniquely and unambiguously. It is widely used in the trade community and other areas, such as sustainable fishery, maritime security and environmental protection. UN/LOCODE is managed and maintained by UNECE with the support of the UN/LOCODE Advisory Group.

Aiming at a better service to the UN/LOCODE user community and the sustainable development of UN/LOCODE, the UNECE secretariat strives to meet growing demands with limited resources. The UN/LOCODE Advisory Group meets once per year.

28 June 2022 - 14:00-17:00hrs

The meeting of the 28 June will convene the full Advisory Group and will follow-up on the recent developments related to UN/LOCODE, including:

Appointments of Chair and Vice-Chair of the UN/LOCODE Advisory Group, Convenor for its subgroup: the UN/LOCODE Maintenance Team
Approval of the Programme of Work 2022-2023
Potential enlargement of the use of UN/LOCODE
UN/LOCODE maintenance issues

Target Audience

The UN/LOCODE Advisory Group members: representatives of the UN/LOCODE user community, UN/LOCODE Focal Points, and UN/CEFACT experts.

Speakers and Presentations

28 June 2022

Item 4. Report from the Secretariat
Item 5: New developments and follow-ups
Presentation on the UNGEGN’s World Geographical Names Database (Mark Iliffe, UN DESA)
Presentation on GitHub and JSON-LD (David Roff, Domain Coordinator of UN/CEFACT)
Presentation on IMO (Mikael Renz, IMO EGDH)
Item 6: UN/LOCODE Maintenance
Report from the Maintenance Team (Maria Teresa Chavarri, Interim Convenor of the Maintenance Team)
Best practice by Brazil (Tiago Spengler, National Focal Point for Brazil)

29 June 2022

Locations with Function “7” 
Presentation on FPSO (Tiago Spengler, National Focal Point for Brazil)
Geo-coordinates of a requested area (Maria Teresa Chavarri, Interim Convener of the Maintenance Team)
The issues raised by France
Merging of localities into one (Jean-Baptiste Receveur, Representative of the National Focal Point for France)

28 June 2022 - 14:00-17:00hrs

Item 1. Adoption of the agenda

UN/LOCODE-AG/2022/INF.1 - Agenda

Item 2. Appointments of Officers

Item 3. Introduction of Experts

Item 4. Report from the secretariat
   ECE/EX.2022/L.5 - EXCOM Decision on matters relating to UN/CEFACT
   English    French      Russian
   UN/LOCODE-AG/2022/INF.2 - Report on UN/LOCODE

Item 5. New developments and follow-ups

Item 6. UN/LOCODE maintenance

Item 7. Programme of Work for 2022-2023
UN/LOCODE-AG/2022/INF.3 - Approved Programme of Work for 2022-2023

Item 8. Future work

Item 9. Other business

Item 10. Adoption of the decision
UN/LOCODE-AG/2022/INF.4 - Conference report

29 June 2022 - 14:00-17:00hrs

Time		Agenda item	Introduced by

14.00 – 14.05		Opening	Chair of AG
14.05 – 14.10		Welcome Remarks	Convener of MT
14.10 – 14.25		Tour de table	Convener of MT
14.25 – 15.05		Locations with Function “7”
		Presentation on FPSO	Tiago Spengler NFP for Brazil
		Briefing on locations in international water (“XZ”)	Ashlee Williams IMO representative
15.05 – 15.30		Geo-coordinates of a requested area Representative of coordinates of a city or a town Request for more accuracy than minutes, especially for a location on a border	Convener of MT
15.30 – 15.50		The issues raised by France
		Merging of localities into one	Jean-Baptiste Receveur NFP for France
		Presentation on Fishery ports (TBC)	FAO Representative
15.50– 16:05	Coffee break
16.05 – 16.15	Function “B” For example: the practice of inputting “Border” in the Column “Remarks” if necessary.		Convener of MT
16.15 – 16.20	AOB		Convener of MT
16.20 – 17.00	Wrap-up		Convener of MT
	Closing

Minutes of the Ad Hoc Maintenance policy Meeting

2022 Meeting - UN/LOCODE Advisory Group

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