Overview
The first meeting of the Webinar Series on the Global Initiative on Unique Identifiers for Businesses will provide an overview of the global initiative and underscore the importance of this initiative for the different stakeholders, such as National Statistical Offices, regulatory authorities, and international organizations active in business registration and statistical business registers. The Webinar Series on the Global Initiative on Unique Identifiers for Businesses is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division in collaboration with the UN Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation. More information is available online at: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/business-stat/Webinar-Unique-BusinessID.cshtml
Programme
7:00 am - 7:15 am
Opening remarks
- ▪ Stefan Schweinfest, Director, United Nations Statistics Division
- ▪ Stefano Menghinello, Chair of UNCEBTS, Director Directorate for analysis and enhancement of economic statistics and for the information needs of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, ISTAT
7:15 am - 9:00 am
Global Initiative on Unique Identifiers for Businesses
Chair: Hank Hermans, Chair task Team on Statistical Business Register, Director Economic Statistics at Statistics Netherlands
- ▪ Why a Global Initiative on Unique Identifiers for Businesses? - Julian Chow, UNSD
- ▪ UN Legal Identity Agenda- Similarities with civil registration and population registers - Predrag Savic, UNSD
- ▪ UNCITRAL recommendations on business registration - Monica Canafoglia, UNCITRAL
- ▪ Leveraging on LEI - How can LEI can support strengthening of unique identifiers for businesses - Ricco Dun, GLEIF
- ▪ Reflections on unique identifiers for businesses for SBR - Arthur Giesberts, World Bank
- ▪ Q&A
9:00 am - 9:25 am
Roundtable discussions
Chair: Ivo Havinga (UNNES)
The Global Initiative on Unique Identifiers for Businesses has a four-fold objective:
- ▪ Strengthen the transparency on businesses in countries by improving their registration;
- ▪ Improve the availability of unique business identifiers in administrative data sources in countries;
- ▪ Promote access to and sharing of administrative data for statistical business registers
- ▪ Demonstrate the importance and benefit of linking national identifiers with a global identifier, the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)
How would this global initiative benefit your country's national administration of registration of businesses and the role of the registrar of businesses in promoting the national unique identifiers for businesses?
How would this global initiative benefit your country's national statistical system and the role of the National Statistical Office (NSO) and Central Banks (CBs) in promoting the national unique identifiers for businesses and linking national identifiers with global identifiers?
How would this global initiative contribute to the collaboration between the national registrars and the NSOs and CBs in promoting the national unique identifiers?