How does UBL address the legal aspects of paperless trade?
A key objective of UBL from the beginning has been to provide the world with standards for the electronic versions of traditional business documents designed in a way that recognizes established commercial and legal practices. Implementing international paperless trade will require extensive cooperation among nations to institute uniform legal codes governing the substitution of electronic documents for their paper equivalents. UBL’s contribution to this effort lies in the definition of a standard set of XML forms and close cooperation with the organizations working toward the establishment of an international ecommerce infrastructure. Since December 2001, UBL has been on the standing agenda of the ISO IEC ITU UN/ECE eBusiness MoU Management Group, of which OASIS is a nonvoting member. This group manages relationships regarding electronic business standards among the organizations referenced by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). OASIS is also a Class A Liaison to ISO TC
