An international online seminar by the Eurasian Economic Commission and the UN Economic Commission for Europe drew more than a hundred participants from Union states — officials, transport and customs staff, entrepreneurs and IT developers. Source: Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC).
The EEC trade policy and transport and infrastructure departments, together with the customs cooperation unit, held a debate on digital cross-border supply chains, paperless document exchange and expanding the single-window mechanism in Union countries.
Debate covered CEFACT standards for digital data in multimodal chains, digital corridors, a national single-window model for foreign trade, and data matrices as a way to speed up development of that mechanism.
Opening the seminar, Deputy Head of the trade policy department Kanat Olzhabayev called the topics important for practice, while his counterpart in the transport department Natalya Aleksandrovich said digitalisation of transport and logistics is a priority for all EAEU member states.
UNECE and EEC representatives explained how global standards can be transferred to Union practice, presented pilots and methodological materials for compatible e-document exchange. The meeting produced recommendations in favour of regional initiatives and scheduled a webinar series on contested agenda items.
