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UNITED
NATIONS
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Economic and Social
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GENERAL
ECE/TRADE/C/CEFACT/2008/30
22 July 2008
Original: ENGLISH
ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE
COMMITTEE ON TRADE
Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business
Fourteenth session
Geneva, 16 – 17 September 2008
Item 5 of the provisional agenda
DEVELOPMENTS BY EXPERT GROUPS: DELIVERABLES AND PRIORITIES
Approval of new and updated recommendations
Recommendation No. 23 “Freight Cost Code – FCC Harmonization of the Description of
Freight Costs and Other Charges” Revision 6
Summary
The fifth session of UN/CEFACT in 1999 approved the recommendation of its Steering Group to
delegate the authority for maintenance of the code lists associated with UN/CEFACT Recommendations
to the Code Working Group. This authorization was transferred to the Information Content Management
Group (ICG) in the reorganization of UN/CEFACT’s structure in 2003.
The ICG approved Revision 61 of the code list in March 2008 and is submitting these updated lists to the
Plenary for information.
1 Earlier versions of Recommendation No. 23 include Revision 5 (CEFACT/ICG/2007/IC011, 2007), Revision 4
(CEFACT/ICG/2007/IC004, 2007) Revision 3 (CEFACT/ICG/2007/IC001, 2007) Revision 2 (CEFACT/ICG/2006/-
IC002, 2006) Revision 1 (TRADE/CEFACT/ICG/2003/IC002, 2003) and the orginial Recommendation No. 23
(ECE/TRADE/170, 1990). These documents can be downladed from UN/CEFACT’s website
(http://www.unece.org/cefact/recommendations/rec_index.htm).
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I. INTRODUCTION
1.
The United Nations, through its Centre for the Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business
(UN/CEFACT), supports activities dedicated to improving the ability of business, trade and
administrative organisations, from developed, developing and transitional economies, to
exchange products and relevant services effectively. Its principal focus is to facilitate
international transactions, through th