Editing EDIFACT (section)

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'''United Nations/Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport''' ('''UN/EDIFACT''') is an international standard for [[electronic data interchange]] (EDI) developed for the [[United Nations]] and approved and published by [[UNECE]], the UN Economic Commission for Europe.<ref>UNECE, [https://www.unece.org/cefact/edifact/welcome.html Introducing UN/EDIFACT], accessed 27 September 2020</ref>

In 1987, following the convergence of the UN and US/ANSI syntax proposals, the UN/EDIFACT Syntax Rules were approved as the ISO standard ISO 9735 by the [[International Organization for Standardization]].<ref>[https://www.unece.org/trade/untdid/texts/old/d423.htm#p1 UN/EDIFACT Syntax Implementation Guidelines], accessed 27 September 2020</ref>

The EDIFACT standard provides:
* a set of syntax rules to structure data
* an interactive exchange protocol (I-EDI)
* standard messages which allow multi-country and multi-industry exchange

The work of maintenance and further development of this standard is done through the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business ([[UN/CEFACT]]) under the UN Economic Commission for Europe, in the Finance Domain working group [[UN CEFACT TBG5]].