UN/CEFACT is a subsidiary, intergovernmental body of the UNECE Committee of Trade. UN/CEFACT is managed by a bureau comprising a Chair and several Vice-chairs. It has global membership and its members are experts from intergovernmental organizations, individual countries' authorities and also from the business community. UN/CEFACT develops and publishes: - technical standards, i.e. specifications that establish how one or more business standards and/or recommendations will be developed;
- business standards, i.e. specifications that provide rules, guidelines and/or principles related to activities in the context of trade facilitation or electronic business;
- UNECE Recommendations on trade facilitation that provide formal guidance to governments, the private sector and the business community.
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