1. Overview of stakeholder priorities UN/CEFACT Bureau 14 May 2007 U NITED N ATIONS C ENTRE F OR T RADE F ACILITATION A ND E LECTRONIC B USINESS United Nations Economic Commission for Europe UN/CEFACT

2. Slide 2 Overview Stakeholders Key action points Key developments Key challenges ahead Follow-up Presentations

3. UN/CEFACT Slide 3 Stakeholders Countries around the world internal and external (eg regional, global) perspectives Sectoral domains across the spectrum of business, government and trade: Accounting & Audit - Agriculture - Architecture, Engineering & Construction - Business Process Analysis - Customs - eGovernment - Electronic Trade Documents - Environmental Management - Finance - Harmonization - Health Care - Insurance - International Trade Procedures - Social Services - Statistics Collection and Reporting - Supply Chain - Transport - Travel, Tourism and Leisure Global community of standards development organisations and groupings

4. UN/CEFACT Slide 4 Key Action Points Foster growing recognition of the value of UN/CEFACT’s common semantic framework, providing a neutral platform for convergence independent of technology Improve coordination to avoid duplication of work Strengthen communication Aim at a consistent set of implementable standards that support a complete set of practical deliverables, eg advancing e-invoice developments

5. UN/CEFACT Slide 5 Key Developments UN/CEFACT standards framework playing a stronger facilitating role Internal and external coordination helping to reduce duplication People-to-people and web-based communication efforts improved Core Component Library and Cross Industry Invoice progress, as examples, advancing consistent set of across-the-board standards for e-business, e-government and e-trade

6. UN/CEFACT Slide 6 Key Challenges Ahead Ensuring Stakeholder Attention to Defining High Value Global Priorities UN/CEFACT‘S Business Model public-private partnership, global remit, freely available products and services, UNECE secretariat and volunteer experts around the globe, UN budget and extra-budgetary resources, constraints in addressing identified gaps in achieving priority deliverables Good Governance as an intergovernmental body - there is a special continuing need to give priority to due diligence: management oversight, transparency, open processes, accountability, controls, avoidance of appearance and actual conflicts of interest Timing is everything

7. UN/CEFACT Slide 7 Tracking Progress: Countries Sectors Standards Development Organisations Plenary Questions, Comments and Recommendations Bureau Follow-up Presentations

8. UN/ CEFACT SIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE PROCESSES FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS.