UNECE+with+UNCEFACT

The [|UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)] is one of the five regional commissions of the UN, set up in 1947 to foster development and economic growth in their respective regions and to promote regional implementation of internationally agreed goals and instruments. The UNECE supports cooperation among its 56 member countries, which include a wide variety of countries ranging from Georgia, Moldova and Tajikistan to France, Germany and Italy, the Russian Federation and the United States. The UNECE provides a forum for discussion and a platform for the negotiation of international legal instruments in many areas including trade, transport, statistics, sustainable energy and the environment. With a history of more than 60 years of work on international norms, standards, and recommendations in the field of trade, many of these UNECE instruments are recognized as having global relevance and application. While participation in the development of its norms and standards, as well as their use, is global, UNECE's technical assistance is mainly directed to the low and middle income countries in southeast and eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. At the same time, UNECE supports other countries outside the region and other international organizations that use its standards, through guidelines, tools and advice. The UNECE undertakes work in a number of trade areas including trade facilitation, regulatory cooperation, electronic business standards, supply capacity, transport and transport infrastructure. = UNECE work related to trade facilitation = One of the UNECE's best known areas of trade work is trade facilitation and electronic business, where it is recognized as a focal point within the UN system. Its Working Party No. 4 was formed in 1960 to work on the facilitation of trade procedures with a global remit. In 1996, it was replaced by the UN Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT). Its motto is “Simple, Transparent and Effective Processes for Global Commerce”. One of its more recent and well-known recommendations is on Single Windows for export and import information submission (UNECE Rec.33). UNECE is also a co-founder of the United Nations Network of Experts for Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific (UNNExT).

UNECE's work in the field of trade facilitation and electronic business aims to develop national competitiveness and participation in global markets by helping countries develop the knowledge and institutions for facilitating national and international transactions. This is through the simplification and harmonization of processes, procedures and information flows. Specifically, UNECE undertakes activities to:
 * support and build capacity in national trade facilitation institutions through advisory services and workshops;
 * support the establishment and operation of national Single Windows for export and import procedures and information;
 * analyse and simplify business processes to remove bottlenecks and enhance trade efficiency;
 * support the implementation of electronic alternatives to key paper documents in the international supply chain; and
 * support paperless trade transactions.

=UN/CEFACT work on trade facilitation= UN/CEFACT is a subsidiary, intergovernmental body of the UNECE Committee of Trade. UN/CEFACT is managed by a bureau comprising a Chair and several Vice-chairs. It has global membership and its members are experts from intergovernmental organizations, individual countries' authorities and also from the business community.

UN/CEFACT develops and publishes: =UNECE and UN/CEFACT instruments covered in this wiki=
 * technical standards, i.e. specifications that establish how one or more business standards and/or recommendations will be developed;
 * business standards, i.e. specifications that provide rules, guidelines and/or principles related to activities in the context of trade facilitation or electronic business;
 * UNECE Recommendations on trade facilitation that provide formal guidance to governments, the private sector and the business community.
 * Code Lists ||
 * Core Component Technical Specifications (CCTS) ||
 * Recommendation No. 1 UN Layout Key ||
 * Recommendation No. 4 TF bodies ||
 * Recommendation No. 5 Incoterms ||
 * Recommendation No. 6 Aligned invoice Layout Key ||
 * Recommendation No. 12 Maritime transport documents ||
 * Recommendation No. 15 Shippig marks ||
 * Recommendation No. 16 UN LOCODE ||
 * Recommendation No. 18 TF recommendations ||
 * Recommendation No. 22 Recommendation No. 22 Layout Key Standard Consingment Instruction ||
 * Recommendation No. 25 EDIFACT ||
 * Recommendation No. 26 EDI ||
 * Recommendation No. 32 E-Commerce Self-Regulatory Instruments (Codes of Conduct) ||
 * Recommendation No. 33 Single Window ||
 * Recommendation No. 34 Data simplification ||
 * Recommendation No. 35 Legal Aspects of SW ||
 * Harmonization Frontier Controls Convention ||
 * UN CEFACT Core Component Library (CCL) ||
 * NDR ||
 * UNNEXT Guide on the SW Implementation Framework (SWIF) ||
 * UNECE Trade Facilitation Terms ||
 * United Nations Trade Data Element Directory (UNTDED) ||
 * UNNExT Case Studies ||
 * The Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention), 1975 ||
 * UNNExT Data Harmonisation and Modelling Guide ||
 * UNNExT Guide for the Design of Aligned Trade Forms for Paperless Trade ||
 * UNNExT Guide on Business Process Analysis ||