CEFACT
UN / CEFACT stands for United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business , i. H. United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business Processes . The abbreviation CEFACT comes from the original French name Center pour la facilitation des procédures et des pratiques dans l'administration, le commerce et les transports , which can be roughly translated as Center for the facilitation of procedures and practices in administration, trade and transport .
CEFACT was established in 1996 , is affiliated with UNECE and, like UNECE, has its headquarters in Geneva . Members are UN member states , intergovernmental organizations (such as the EU ) and industry and trade associations. The aim of CEFACT is to promote, simplify and harmonize international trade.
CEFACT is, among other things, responsible for the international data standard EDIFACT and one of the initiators of ebXML .