Date
27 and 28 April 2020, 14:00-17:00
Background
This virtual policy dialogue is being held under the UNECE project ‘Enhancing Transparency and Traceability of Sustainable Value Chains in the Garment and Footwear Sector’, to convene the multi-stakeholder project experts’ groups. The purpose is to review progress on the key project outputs and brainstorm on the next steps for the development of the policy recommendation, the technical standards for transparency and traceability of information exchange in the textile and leather value chain, and the implementation of the first project blockchain pilot for traceability and due diligence in the cotton industry.OUTPUT TYPE | FILES |
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MEETING MINUTES | |
MEETING AGENDA | Preliminary annotated agenda |
BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS | Policy Recommendation (Part I), Guidelines (Part II) and Annex 4. Call for Action Template (draft April 2020) Stakeholders Ecosystem Report and Annex 1. Stakeholders in the Garment and Footwear Sector (draft April 2020) Mapping of supporting policies, regulations and legislation for the Policy Recommendation (draft April 2020) Explanatory note for Business Process Analysis (BPA) for the value chain and data model for traceability of information exchange (draft April 2020) Project document for a pilot on blockchain for traceability and due diligence in the cotton value chain and progress report (draft April 2020) |
PRESENTATIONS | Day 1. 27 April 2020Project progress, by Maria Teresa Pisani, Project Manager, Economic Cooperation and Trade Division, UNECE Item 2. Where do we stand with the transparency and traceability of industry value chains? Interventions by: Ebba Aurell, Policy Officer, Directorate General Development, Cooperation, European Commission Maylis Souque, Ministry of Economics and Finance & National Contact Point to the OECD, France Yvonne Chileshe, Expert in Commodities & Value Chains Development, Secretariat African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States Mauro Scalia, Director Sustainable Businesses, EURATEX Item 3. Policy Recommendation and call for action for transparency and traceability of sustainable and circular value chains Policy Recommendation: Overview, by Virginia Cram Martos CEO, Triangularity and UN/CEFACT Trade Facilitation Procedures Domain Coordinator Stakeholders’ Ecosystem Report, UNECE Secretariat Relevant regulations, policies and experts’ in depth interviews: Key findings, by Francesca Romana Rinaldi, Bocconi University, Italy and Claudia di Bernardino, Lawyer, Italy Policy recommendation & Guidelines: Architecture of traceability framework, by Rudrajeet Pal, University of Borås, Sweden Day 2. 28 April 2020Item 4. The value chain, data and technology model for transparency and traceability of sustainable value chains: focus on the cotton value chain Explanatory Note: Overview, by Virginia Cram Martos CEO, Triangularity and UN/CEFACT Trade Facilitation Procedures Domain Coordinator UN/CEFACT Business Requirements Specification, by Gerhard Heemskerk, Data Modeller, UN/CEFACT project expert UN/CEFACT Business Process and Data Modelling, by Frans van Diepen, State Enterprise Agency, the Netherlands UNECE Transparency and Traceability Pilot Project, by Paolo Naldini, Director, Cittadellarte Fashion B.E.S.T and Isabella Tonelli, CSR Coordinator, Vivienne Westwood The cotton blockchain pilot progress, by Andrea Redaelli, Principal Project and Portfolio Management, UN/CEFACT project expert Bridging the gap between digital product data and physical products, by Michela Puddu, CEO & Co Founder, Haelixa From seed to fabric to shirt, by Benjamin Fuchs, CEO, Alba Gruppe Item 5. Next project milestones Next steps and upcoming meetings, Maria Teresa Pisani, Project Manager, Economic Cooperation and Trade Division, UNECE |