UNITED NATIONS E Economic and Social Council ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE Distr. GENERAL TRADE/CEFACT/GE.2/1997/4 16 July 1997 ENGLISH ONLY COMMITTEE FOR TRADE, INDUSTRY AND ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT Centre for the Facilitation of Procedures and Practices for Administration, Commerce and Transport (Item 4(a) of the provisional agenda of the Meeting of Experts on Procedures and Documentation (GE.2) Fifty-sixth session, 16-17 September 1997) IMPLEMENTATION AND PROMOTION OF RECOMMENDATIONS [035] Recommendation ECE/FAL No.4 "National Trade Facilitation Organisations" LIST OF NATIONAL TRADE FACILITATION COMMITTEES AND FOCAL POINTS * * * Note by the secretariat At its forty-sixth session held in September 1992, the Meeting of Experts (GE.2) discussing its programme of work agreed to encourage the further development of national and regional committees for the simplification of international trade procedures in accordance with ECE/FAL Recommendation No.4 "National Trade Facilitation Organs" and to invite them to participate in the activities of the Working Party on Facilitation of International Trade Procedures (WP.4). As the first step in this process, the secretariat drew up the list of existing national committees and focal points on trade facilitation and published it in document TRADE/WP.4/R.898 and its Revisions 1-8. Since the fifty-fifth session of GE.2, the secretariat received several remarks and additions. The updated list of national trade facilitation committees and focal points is reproduced in the Annex to this Note. Delegations are invited to amend or to add the contact numbers to the addresses of the appropriate bodies, including their E-mail numbers. GE.97- ANNEX LIST OF NATIONAL TRADE FACILITATION BODIES AND FOCAL POINTS A. Trade Facilitation Committees AUSTRIAPRO BANPRO Postfach 150 c/o Ministry of Commerce A-1045 VIENNA Export Promotion Bureau Austria DHAKA Tel: +43 1 50 105 43 80 Bangladesh Fax: +43 1 50 206 244 BULPRO COFPRO Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce Comité Tunisien de Facilitation and Industry des Procédures du Commerce Extérieur 11a, Saborna str. Ministère du Commerce/DGCE SOFIA 1000 Rue d'Irak Bulgaria TUNIS 1002 Tel: +359 2 871 287 Tunisia Fax: +359 2 800 479 Fax: +00216 1 890 531 DANPRO/Danish EDI-Council DE-PRO GmbH Boersen German Association for Facilitation 1217 COPENHAGEN K of Trade Procedures and Promotion of EDI Denmark Adenauerallee 148 Tel: +45 33 95 05 86 D-53113 BONN Fax: +45 33 33 91 05 01 Tel: +49 228 104 230/-232 Fax: +49 228 104 556 Internet: cwolf@bonn.diht.ihk.de Office Berlin Burggrafenstrasse 2A D-10787 BERLIN Tel: +49 30 254 505 0 Fax: +49 30 254 505 27 Internet: dedig@dedig-berlin.dbp.de EIRPRO ESTPRO Irish Export Board Akadeemia Tee 21 P.O. Box 4 TALLIN EE 0108 DUBLIN 4 Estonia Ireland FINPRO FITPRO IDCA, Salomonkatu 17a Argentinska 38 SF-00100 HELSINKI 170 05 PRAHA 7 Finland Czech Republic Tel: +358 9 4763 000 Tel: +42 2 800 171 Fax: +358 9 4763 0399 +42 2 667 947 60/-61/-64 Fax: +42 2 667 107 70 ICEPRO Tryggvagata 19 IS-150 REYKJAVIK Iceland HUNPRO IFTS Than Karoly u.3/5 Integrated Foreign Trade System H-1119 BUDAPEST 18 Shlom Zion st. Hungary P.O. Box 1580 Internet: h7818sza@ella.hu Jerusalem 94156 Israel INDPRO JASTPRO Indian Institute of Foreign Trade Daiichidaimon Bldg. 93 Nehru Place 2-10-1, Shibadaimon NEW DELHI 110019 Minato-ku India TOKYO 105 Japan Tel: +81 3 3437 6135 Fax: +81 3 3437 6136 Internet: jastpro@po.iijnet.or.jp KENPRO KOSTPRO Kenya External Trade Authority Rm. 4602 Trade Tower, KWTC P.O.Box 43137 159-1, Samsung-dong NAIROBI Kangam-ku Kenya SEOUL Korea NITPRO NORSK EDIPRO Block 312 Kumba st. P.O. Box 2526 Solli Wuse zone 2 N-0202 OSLO 2 p.m.B.133 ABUJA Norway Nigeria Tel: +47 22 55 42 10 Fax: +47 22 55 42 19 POLPRO ROMPRO Krolewska Str. 27 14. av. de la République PL-00-060 WARSAW BUCHAREST Poland Romania Tel: +48 22 26 60 65 Tel: +401 614 80 76 Fax: +48 22 27 68 10 Fax: +401 311 14 91 Internet: ddima@u1.ici.ro Russian EDIFACT Board SIMPRO-BRASIL c/o Ministry for Foreign Av. 13 de Maio, 13, sala 2009 Economic Relations 20031-900 Rio de Janeiro - RJ Smolenskaya-Sennaya sq. 32/34 Brasil Moscow 121200 Tel: +55 21 533 3376 Russian Federation Fax: +55 21 240 3464 Tel: +7 095 244 18 54 Internet: simpro@ax.apc.org Fax: +7 095 230 26 34 SENPRO SEMPROITALIA PB 8166 Ministry of Foreign Trade DAKAR YOFF Viale America, 341 Sénégal 00144 ROMA Tel: +221 20 12 02 Italy Fax: +221 35 07 12 SIPROCOM SIMPROESPANA c/o Office Belge du Calle Diego de Leon Nr.50 Commerce Extérieur (OBCE) 5=Planta Bte 36 28006 MADRID 162, Bd. Emile Jacqmain Spain B-1210 BRUSSELS Tel: +34 1 326 19 82 Belgium Fax: +34 1 326 22 34 Tel: +32 2 206 35 02 Fax: +32 2 203 21 61 Internet: siprocom@obcebdbh.be SIMPROFRANCE SIPROMAR 61, rue de L'Arcade 63, Boulevard Moulay Youssef F-75008 PARIS RABAT France Maroc Tel: +33 1 42 93 03 02 Fax: +33 1 43 87 97 85 SITPRO SITPRONETH 151 Buckingham Palace Road c/o EDIFORUM LONDON, SW1W 9SS Overgoo 2 United Kingdom P.O. Box 262 Tel: +44 171 215 0825 NL-2260 AG LEIDSCHENDAM Fax: +44 171 215 0824 The Netherlands Tel: +31 70 337 61 23 Fax: +31 70 327 69 65 SWEPRO SWISSPRO National Board of Trade c/o Zurcher Handelskammer P.O. Box 1209 Bleicherweg 5 Birgerjarls Torg 5 Postfach 4031 S-11182 STOCKHOLM CH-8022 ZURICH Sweden Tel: +41 1 211 05 16 Tel: +46 8 791 0500 Fax: +41 1 211 05 17 Fax: +46 8 207 576 Internet: swepro@euro.kommers.se SRILPRO TANPRO The Service Division of the P.O. Box 5464 Sri Lanka Export Development Board DAR ES SALAAM Romada Renaissance Bld.,No.115 Tanzania Mawatha Colombo 2 Sri Lanka TAIPRO Zambia Trade Facilitation Department of Export Promotion Committee Planning Division c/o Export Board of Zambia P.O. 30064 LUSAKA 77/22 Rachadaphisek Rd Zambia CHATUJAKR BANGKOG 10900 Thailand SLOVAKPRO Nebelova 18 831 02 BRATISLAVA Slovak Republic Tel:+42 7 5352 104 Fax:+42 7 5311 465 Internet:slovakpro@edivan.et.sk. B. Focal points Brunei Darussalam Columbia Ministry of Finance Consejo Colombiano de Usuarios Economic Planning Unit Apdo, Aéreo 21340 Bandar Seri Begavan BOGOTA Canada Chinese Taipei Trade Commissioner, EMT TRADE-VAN External Affairs and International Cargo Clearance Automation Trade Canada Planning and Promotion Task Force 125 Sussex Drive Ministry of Finance OTTAWA, ONTARIO K1A 062 20F, 333, Tun-Hwa S. Rd. Sec.2 Tel: +1 613 996 0688 TAIPEI Fax: +1 613 996 1225 France Gabon EDIFRANCE Ministère du Commerce, de Normalisation et Promotion de l'EDI l'Industrie et de la Recherche Tour Europe Scientifique Cedex 07 B.P. 561 92049 PARIS la Défense LIBREVILLE Tel: +33 1 42 91 57 93 Tel: +241 72 10 99 Fax: +33 1 42 91 60 26 Fax: +241 76 58 38 Hong Kong Indonesia TRADELINK Electronic Document Information Systems Head Services Ltd. PT Nugra Santana 13F, NatWest Tower, Times Square Bank Pacific Building, 3rd foor 1 Matheson Street, Causeway Bay Jl. Jend. Sudiman Kav. 7-8 HONG KONG JAKARTA 10220 Luxembourg Chambre de Commerce du Grand Duché de Luxembourg L-2981 LUXEMBOURG Tel: +352 42 3939 251 Fax: +352 43 8326 Internet: paul.hippert@ci.educ.lu Malaysia Malta Malaysian Administrative Malta Export Trade Corporation Modernization and Management The Trade Center Planning Unit Industrial Estate - San Gwann Prime Minister's Department P.O.Box 8, SAN GWANN - SGN 01 4th floor, Wisma PKNS, Tel: +356 446 186/7/8 Jalan Raja Laut, Fax: +356 496 687 50527 KUALA LUMPUR Mongolia Peoples Republic of China Ministry of Foreign Trade Standard Division and Industry Computing Center of MOFTEC Str. J. Sambuu - 11 28, Dong Hou Siang, An Ding Men Wai ULAANBAATAR - 11 BEIJING 100011 Philippines Singapore Bureau of Export Promotion Director General Department of Trade and Industry Trade Development Board MANILA World Trade Center Slovenia Turkey Ministry of Economic Relations Hazine ve Dis Ticarct and Development Zkonomik Arastirmalar ve Kotnikova 5 Degerlendirme Genel Mudirlugu 61000 LJUBLJANA Emek-ANKARA Tel: +386 61 443 467 Fax: +386 61 14 04 245 * * * World Wide Web addresses of national trade facilitation bodies and focal points The Brasilian National Trade Facilitation Organization (SIMPRO-BRASIL) - http:/www.ibase.br/~simpro The German Association for Facilitation of Trade Procedures and Promotion of EDI (DE-PRO) - http://www.din.de/depro The Finnish Data Communication Association (FINPRO/EDCA) - http://www.sty.fi/sty/fdca.htm The Hungarian National Trade Facilitation Organization (HUNPRO) - http://www.eunet.hu:80/hunpro Normalisation et promotion de l'EDI en France (EDIFRANCE) - http://www.edt.fr/fredi The Iceland Committee on Trade Procedures (ICEPRO) - http://www.chamber.is/ip.htm The Malta Export Trade Corporation (METCO) - http://metco.com.mt The Norwegian Centre for EDI and Trade Procedures (Norsk EDIPRO) - http://www.telepost.no/norsk/ed:pro.html The Russian National EDIFACT Board - http://www.sft.fact400.ru/edi/engl.htm The Swedish Trade Procedures Council (SWEPRO) - http://www.swepro.kommers.se/swepro/sweproeng.html The Swiss Association for the Simplification of International Trade Procedures (SWISSPRO) - http://www.access.ch/whoswho?swisspro _____________________