The objective of the seminar is to bring to the relevant stakeholders in Ukraine better knowledge of the substance of the eFTI initiative, and how the UN/CEFACT global standards and reference data models can help achieve its objectives.

The eFTI Regulation was adopted in August 2020, with the perspective of implementing it fully by all EU member States in five years. It has the objective of making all information exchange on transport of commercial cargo inside the European Union multimodal and electronic. It offers a foundation for the transition from exchange of documents accompanying goods in international trade and transport to the exchange of data and data sets.

As this Regulation covers the internal information exchange in the European Union, the work on its implementation is not well known in third countries, including countries aspiring accession to the EU.
For this reason, Ukraine requested from UNECE to use the means available to it to organize this webinar to raise awareness among the regulatory agencies and the business community in the country about the development of the eFTI initiative, and how relevant UN/CEFACT tools can be used for its implementation.

The latter topic is discussed at the Digital Transport and Logistics Forum, to which various stakeholders from the public and private sectors have been invited, to advance practical ideas for the implementation of the eFTI Regulation.

UNECE is currently supporting a project for pilot testing of a data pipeline for the exports of grain from Ukraine, using UN/CEFCT standards.
The initial results of this practical project will also be presented.

In the process of preparation of the webinar, stakeholders in Ukraine and the other Eastern Partnership countries expressed interest in including relevant policymakers and experts from the other Eastern Partnership countries in this initial training exercise. As a result of this webinar, if there is will among the partners, notably in Ukraine, the other Eastern Partnership countries, and the European Commission, we would be interested in developing a project that would help Ukraine and the other countries better understand and implement the basic tenets of what will have been discussed at the webinar.