OFFICIAL FORUM OPENING

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OFFICIAL FORUM OPENING

• 0900 - 1000 Official Forum Opening Session
• Welcome Gabriel Rosales - Forum Host
• ITESM - Alfredo Capoti
• Forum Management Group - Mike Doran, Chairman,
  
• UN Economic Commission for Europe - Virginia
  Cram-Martos, Director Trade Timber Division
• UN/CEFACT Stuart Feder - Chairman
• Government of Mexico Maria del Rocío Ruiz
  Chavez, Undersecretary of State for Industry
  Commerce
• 1000-1030 Coffee break
• 1030-1130 Forum Opening Plenary Session
• 1130-1230 Permanent Group Opening Plenaries

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Opening Plenary

• 1030 - 1130 12th UN/CEFACT FORUM Opening
  Plenary Session
• FMG Report Mike Doran
• ATG Mark Crawford
• ICG Mike Conroy
• LG Bart Schermer (Acting)
• TBG Jean-Luc Champion
• TMG Christian Huemer (Acting)
• Bureau Stuart Feder

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Forum Management Group Report

• Chair Mike Doran
• Vice Chair Anders Grangard

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FMG Report

• Progress since Stockholm
• 1. Important Developments
• Task Team Report on IPR Related Issues
  circulated
• UN/CEFACT report to the UNECE Committee on Trade
• FMG Bureau F2F in Basle in January to progress
  strategic issues
• European Electronic Invoice Expert Committee set
  up. Includes 3 UN/CEFACT members
• Preparations for eBGT launch progressing well
• Progress on Forum Procedures Team expected at
  this Forum

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FMG Report

• Progress since Stockholm
• 2. Some recent deliverables
• Final spec UML Profile for Core Components v 1.0
  released
• 2007 LOCODE Directory available
• Draft revisions of recommendations 20 - Codes for
  Units of Measure in International Trade, 21 -
  Codes for Passengers, Types of cargo etc - out
  for public review
• Recommendation 23 rev 6, Freight Cost Code (FCC)
  released
• D.07A XML Schema Directory released

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FMG Report

• Progress since Stockholm
• 3. Work programme in progress
• UN/CEFACT Project Matrix updated
• Confluence enterprise wiki tool for tracking
  UN/CEFACT projects should be operational by June
• Many important action items to be cleared
• FMG conf calls every 2 weeks continue to progress
  day to day issues
• Extended Bureau calls on strategic issues
• Future Forum meetings at planning stage
• Dakar - Senegal, November 2008
• Rome - Italy, March 2009
• Sapporo - Japan, September 2009

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FMG Report

• Agenda for this week
• Deliverables for imminent release
• Any further issues on IPR policy will be noted
• Project prioritisation Confluence tool
  implementation continues
• Forum Procedures Team (FPT) - to report
• eBGT initiative to be launched (Bureau will
  report)
• UN/CEFACT Programme of Work 2010/2011 to be
  developed
• 14th UN/CEFACT Plenary September 2008 to be
  prepared
• FMG will normally meet from 1700-1800 in open
  format
• FMG Bureau Action Lists will be progressed
• Extended Bureau meetings from 1800-1900 by
  invitation

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FMG Report

• Lunch Learn Presentations at 1230-1300
• Lunch 1300-1400
• Monday TBG 17 Core Component Library - Mary Kay
  Blantz
• Tuesday Asia Europe Alliance for Paperless
  Trade (ASEAL) adoption of UN/CEFACT standards -
  Gordon Cragge Sue Bravery
• Wednesday TBG 14 Buy-Ship-Pay model its role
  in Business Process Harmonization - Niki Sahling
  Ian Watt
• Thursday Korean Institute for Electronic
  Commerce - Implementation of CCTS NDR for
  global interoperability - Sangwon Lim
• Other Highlights
• Tuesday evening - gala event - Castle of
  Chapultepec
• Wednesday/Thursday - eBusiness World Congress -
  B2B Servicios

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