White Paper on Gaps in Aligning Digitization with Transit Procedures

This white paper looks into the transit formalities for specific products, namely product specific documentation issued by government authorities, using as example sanitary, plant and veterinary control certificates, CITES permits, and Waste certificates.

It is aimed to will capture documentation requirements for consignments in transit of specific products, identify legal and operational challenges faced by digital trade documents for transit formalities and discuss opportunities and limitations of technological aspects of digital data exchange.

It borrows from recent discussions in other UN/CEFACT domains and projects with regards to decentralized digital data exchange platforms, track, and trace of shipments, and IoT standards.

 It borrows from recent discussions in other UN/CEFACT domains and projects with regards to decentralized digital data exchange platforms, track, and trace of shipments, and IoT standards.

Document ECE/TRADE/C/CEFACT/2024/INF.8 is submitted to the thirtieth session of the UN/CEFACT Plenary for information.