Addressing Conflict of Laws and Facilitating Digital Product Passports (DPPs) in Cross-border Value Chains: Call for Participation

Assist draft a white paper on Addressing Battle of Legal guidelines and Facilitating Digital Product Passports (DPPs) in Cross-border Worth Chains to realize authorized coordination and set up traceability in world commerce legislation. The White Paper goals to be revealed by the United Nations Centre for Commerce Facilitation and Digital Enterprise (UN/CEFACT), which is a subsidiary, intergovernmental physique of the United Nations Financial Fee for Europe (UNECE) and serves as a focus throughout the United Nations Financial and Social Council for commerce facilitation suggestions and digital enterprise requirements.

Aligned with regional and world initiatives, the White Paper seeks to handle battle of legal guidelines and foster authorized harmonization important for the implementation of DPPs throughout borders. The white paper will even be certain that DPPs adjust to worldwide requirements, selling interoperability and supporting a globally constant strategy. It should deal with the vital uncooked supplies to EV batteries worth chain, however could have broad implications on different industries.

The proposed White Paper will (1) current the established order of battle of legal guidelines in present nationwide and worldwide legal guidelines referring to the implementation of DPPs, and (2) suggest options for authorized coordination and facilitate commerce, particularly:

Analyzing preliminary uptake of DPPs by business stakeholders and anticipated influence;
Coordinating diversified nationwide legal guidelines for cross-border knowledge switch concerned in DPPs;
Acquiring mutual recognition of ESG certificates whose knowledge are required by DPPs;
Selling Interoperability between totally different DPPs; and
Incorporating the UN Transparency Protocol and different UN/CEFACT business requirements/good practices into worldwide and nationwide commerce legal guidelines to handle authorized conflicts within the adoption of DPPs.

In your EOI, please present your identify/place/affiliation/e mail contact, point out your experience, and select the methods to take part (a number of alternative):

Take part as an lively contributor within the working group to draft the White Paper (The group will sometimes have a one-hour assembly each two-three weeks from January to Might 2025),
Take part as an observer within the working group to draft the White Paper,
Take part in analysis interviews, and
Another ways in which you assume you’ll be able to contribute.

Please refer for UN/CEFACT Crucial Uncooked Supplies challenge web site (Get entangled with the White Paper)

This isn’t a paid job.

Deadline to specific your EOI is Friday 17 January 2025. Please e mail your EOI to the challenge lead Dr. Jie (Jeanne) Huang (Jeanne.huang@sydney.edu.au) and ahead your e mail to her analysis assistant Raven Yang (raven.yang@sydney.edu.au).