29 th AFACT St C Meeting AFACT Secretariat

29 th AFACT St. C Meeting AFACT Secretariat Report Hemmat Veyci AFACT Secretariat Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei 3 May 2011

CONTENT q AFACT Update q AFACT Activities q Promotional Activities

CONTENT AFACT Update q AFACT Activities q Promotional Activities

AFACT Update q Members q Current Structure of AFACT q AFACT St. C Members q Committee Chairs q Hosting Members

AFACT Update ü Members q Current Structure of AFACT q AFACT St. C Members q Committee Chairs q Hosting Members

Members Associate Members: PAA (Pan Asia e. Com Alliance) • Afghanistan Iran Pakistan Japan Mongolia Korea Chinese Taipei India Cambodia Philippines Viet Nam Saudi Arabia Thailand Malaysia Indonesia Sri Lanka Singapore Australia

AFACT Update q Members ü Current Structure of AFACT q AFACT St. C Members q Committee Chairs q Hosting Members

AFACT Structure

AFACT Update q Members q Current Structure of AFACT ü AFACT St. C Members q Committee Chairs q Hosting Members

2011 AFACT St. C Members Dr. Jyh - Sheng Ke AFACT Chair - Chinese Taipei Tahseen A. Khan (UN/CEFACT Vice Chair - Ho. D India) Eswaran Sankaranarayanan (Chairman of Business Domain Committee-Malaysia) Dr. NGUYEN MANH QUYEN Chairman of Task Force Team Elected Ho. D - Viet Nam) Dr. Seok-Koo Ji – Elected Ho. D Korea Dr. Mahmood Zargar (AFACT Vice Chair – AFACT Secretariat - Ho. D – Iran) Kazumi Hirai (AFACT Vice Chair - Ho. D Japan) Hisanao Sugamata (Chairman of Technology and Methodology Committee - Japan) Dr. Eva Yueh (Chairman of Committee Support Committee – Chinese Taipei) UN/CEFACT Rapporteur for Asia (Under Nomination)

AFACT Update q Members q Current Structure of AFACT q AFACT St. C Members ü Committee Chairs q Hosting Members

2011 AFACT Committee Chairs Eswaran Sankaranarayanan Business Domain Committee Malaysia Hisanao Sugamata Technology and Methodology Committee Japan Dr. Eva Yueh Committee Support Committee Chinese Taipei

AFACT Update q Members q Current Structure of AFACT q AFACT St. C Members q Committee Chairs ü Hosting Members

Hosting Members Update Hosting Year 2011 Hosting Member Chinese Taipei 2012 2013 Iran Viet Nam 2014 2015 Philippines (e. ASIA Award) (Not Confirmed Yet)

CONTENT q AFACT Update AFACT Activities q Promotional Activities

AFACT Activities q Registration q 2011 AFACT brochure q Con-Call q Plan Process in ECOSOC Meetings for 2011 AFACT Year Book q AFACT Website

AFACT Activities ü Registration Process in ECOSOC q 2011 AFACT brochure q Con-Call q Plan Meetings for 2011 AFACT Year Book q AFACT Website

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AFACT Activities q Registration ü Process in ECOSOC 2011 AFACT brochure q Con-Call q Plan Meetings for 2011 AFACT Year Book q AFACT Website

AFACT Activities q Registration q 2011 ü Process in ECOSOC AFACT brochure Con-Call Meetings q Plan for 2011 AFACT Year Book q AFACT Website

AFACT Con-Call Meetings AFACT Chair - JAPAN Row Date Time (GMT) Attendees St. Cs Ho. Ds TFTs 2010 AFACT Con-Calls 1 1 th of February 6. 00 2 22 th of February 6. 00 3 8 th of March 6. 00 4 18 th of March 6. 00 5 29 th of March 6. 00 6 12 th of April 6. 00 7 10 th of May 6. 00 8 31 th of May 6. 00 9 14 th of June 6. 00 10 4 th of 6. 00 11 8 th of September 6. 00 12 27 th of October 6. 00 13 8 th 6. 00 14 15 th of November 6. 00 August of November

AFACT Con-Call Meetings AFACT Chair – Chinese Taipei Row Date Time (GMT) Attendees St. Cs Ho. Ds TFTs 2011 AFACT Con-Calls 1 22 th 2 of December 2010 6: 00 24 th of January 6. 00 3 15 th of February 7: 30 4 First of March 6. 00 6 7 th of March 6. 00 7 11 th of April 6. 00 8 6. 00 9 6. 00 10 6. 00 11 6. 00 12 6. 00 13 6. 00 14 6. 00 15 6. 00 e. COO Working Group

AFACT Activities q Registration q 2011 AFACT brochure q Con-Call ü Process in ECOSOC Meetings Plan for 2011 AFACT Year Book q AFACT Website

Structure of 2011 AFACT Year Book Structure of Members Progress Report

Time Table of 2011 AFACT Year Book Issues Date St. C Approval 3 - 4 th of May 2011 at Kaohsiung Request from Members 11 th of May 2011 Submission of Materials First of September Preparing / Sending the Draft to Members First of October Final Review by Members 10 of October Delivery to AFACT Plenary First of November

Proposed AFACT Bible

AFACT Activities q Registration q 2011 AFACT brochure q Con-Call q Plan ü Process in ECOSOC Meetings for 2011 AFACT Year Book AFACT Website

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CONTENT q AFACT Update q AFACT Activities Promotional Activities

2011 Promotional Activities q Collaboration with UNESCAP q To help build IT capacity in member countries

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AFACT Registration as an NGO Apply for Consultative Status 1 - Applying in ECOSOC website for Registration sector of UN http: //www. un. org/esa/coordination/ngo 2 - Receive a pack from UN NGO sector that contains many forms that should be fill out. 3 - After you are notified that your profile registration was accepted, your organization has to submit the application, containing the online questionnaire and summary, and the supporting documents. Completed applications must be received by the first of June each year.

AFACT Registration as an NGO 4 - NGO Branch screening of applications 5 - The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations The Committee will recommend to the ECOSOC Council. 6 - ECOSOC Final Decision When the Council finally approves the Committee recommendation to grant consultative status to an NGO, official notification is sent by the Secretariat. NGOs granted General or Special consultative status must submit to the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, every fourth year, a brief report of their activities, in particular regarding their contribution to the work of the United Nations The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations is a standing committee of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

AFACT Registration as an NGO General consultative status is reserved for large international NGOs whose area of work covers most of the issues on the agenda of ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies. They give their consultancy in general areas. They can attend in relevant sessions, give a presentation in front of government representatives, distribute their protocols. Their protocol should be less than 2000 words. They have to give a detail report of their activity each 4 years.

AFACT Registration as an NGO Special consultative status is granted to NGOs which have a special competence in, and are concerned specifically with, only a few of the fields of activity covered by the ECOSOC. They give their consultancy in special areas. They can attend in relevant sessions, give a presentation in front of government representatives, distribute their protocols. Their protocol should be less than 500 words. They have to give a detail report of their activity each 4 years.

AFACT Registration as an NGO Roster consultative: Organizations that apply for consultative status but do not fit in any of the other categories are usually included in the Roster. They rarely give their consultancy to the related committee’s. Many of them are consultant for relative agencies and not the main committee. They can attend in sessions but do not have permission to talk and distribute their protocols. They also have to give a detail report each four years. NGOs that have formal status with other UN bodies or specialized agencies (FAO, ILO, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, WHO and others), can be included on the ECOSOC Roster.

5 - Other 1 - Opportunity for AFACT Promotion Row 1 2 3 Country Bangladesh Bhutan Laos 4 Myanmar 5 Nepal Name of related organization Export Promotion Bureau Bhutan Export Promotion Centre Ministry of Commerce – Foreign Trade Department Ministry of Commerce – Directorate of Trade and Export Promotion Centre

6 Maldives Ministry of Economic Development and Trade 7 Armenian Development Agency 8 Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion 9 Belarus National Centre for Marketing and Price Study 10 Kazakhstan Corporation for Export Development and Promotion 11 Kyrgyzstan Ministry of Trade and Industry 12 Moldova 13 Moldovan Investment and Export Promotion Organization Russian Federation Ministry of Economic Development and Trade 14 Tajikistan 15 Turkmenistan 16 Ukraine 17 Uzbekistan Ministry of Economy and Trade Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations Ukrainian Foreign Trade Uzbek Foreign Economic Information and Commercial Center

18 Bahrain Economic Development Board 19 Brunei Darussalam 20 Cyprus 21 Iraq 22 Jordan Enterprise Development Corporation 23 Kuwait Ministry of Commerce and Industry 24 Lebanon 25 Omani Centre for Investment Promotion and Export Development 26 Qatar Ministry of Finance, Economy and Trade 27 Syrian Arab Republic 28 Turkey 29 United Arab Emirates 30 Yemen Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources Development of Trade, Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Ministry of Trade Point Beirut – Ministry of Economy and Trade Foreign Trade Center Export Promotion Center for Turkey Dubai Export Development Corporation Yemen Export Supreme Council

Some of the discussed topics in Con-Call meetings Decision of movement of the AFACT 2010 host country from Saudi Arabia to JAPAN Document on Interface with Other organizations on Single Windows Document on AFACT Paperless Trading/Single Window Environment www. afact. ir to www. afact. org Transferring AFACT secretariat from Chinese Taipei to Iran Add one more day to Mid-Term meeting for TFT meeting

Some of the discussed topics in Con-Call meetings e. ASIA Award manual revision and encouraging participation from the developing members TFT members updates and inviting 3 Committee chairs as members Recommendation of the Chair of Business Domain Committee Survey of training for capacity building and consulting from the demand side and supply side proposed by CSC. AFACT Bylaws revisions AFACT registration AFACT website design

Our aim is making the AFACT website as a reference site in the field of trade facilitation. For start we have follows: a- Link of Training programs: In the field of trade facilitation like NU/Next b- Introducing AFACT Active Projects in the site like 1 - Paperless trading and SW environment 2 - Document on Interface with Other organizations on Single Windows c- Addressing the related projects in other communities d- Addressing the related workshops, seminars, … e- In Useful links: We like to Standards, Solutions, Cross border references, Trade facilitation Centers in Asian countries, … f- Link exchange with other important and related sites