Questionnaire on UNCITRAL provisions on electronic commerce, end-to-end trade digitalization and paperless trade

Background

The Commission at its fifty-seventh session requested the secretariat to conduct a stocktaking exercise to examine all UNCITRAL legislative texts that referred to electronic aspects, including both UNCITRAL texts on electronic commerce and other texts that include provisions on the use of electronic means (A/79/17, para. 299). The Commission also requested a survey of the enactment of those texts and of the references to such texts contained in trade agreements, with a particular focus on supporting paperless trade. 

The Commission also requested that the stocktaking exercise include a survey of the incorporation by States of UNCITRAL texts on electronic commerce into their domestic legislation, as well as international commitments concerning paperless trade. In that regard, the secretariat was requested to circulate a questionnaire inviting States to provide information on the enactment or adoption of UNCITRAL texts on electronic commerce and to submit copies of their laws based on those texts, in particular, those relevant to paperless trade. This questionnaire was prepared in response to that request. Responses will be compiled and analysed for reporting to the Commission at its fifty-eighth session and may be complemented by desk research.

The secretariat would be grateful if replies could be submitted no later than 17 March 2025 to allow sufficient time for their compilation and analysis.
 

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