Examples of using Paper-based documents in English and their translations into Russian
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Are there any particular problems/issues with these paper-based documents?
The advantages are a reduction of paper-based documents and a shorter procurement cycle time.
The identities of the purported signatories are not always present in paper-based documents.
Paper-based documents are increasingly less able to satisfy the needs of the international trade environment in terms of efficiency and security.
Scanning of documents(i.e. to convert paper-based documents to PDF files);
It helps companies significantly increase efficiency by automating data extraction from electronic and paper-based documents.
Electronic trade documents can reduce shortcomings of traditional, paper-based documents and offer new opportunities to the trading community.
Would your company, if involved with CMR, welcome an official, widespread andregular use of electronic CMR Consignment Notes instead of the present paper-based documents?
However, first of all they usually do not obtain paper-based documents so obtainment of such documents becomes a burden for parties of a contract.
Lastly, in the Guide to Enactment,Governments should be advised to bear in mind the possibility of converting paper-based documents to electronic messages.
Physical measures- paper-based documents containing personal data are stored in locked rooms and cabinets to which only certain employees have access for fulfilling their job duties;
A characteristic of electronic commerce is thatit covers programmable messages, the computer programming of which is the essential difference between such messages and traditional paper-based documents.
Traditional paper-based documents and procedures no longer fit into such an environment unless they are accompanied or supported by computer readable data files.
After discussion, it was agreed that a general rule to provide for the possibility of converting paper-based documents into electronic transferable records and vice versa should be prepared taking into consideration the various aspects mentioned above.
In that connection, it was stated that the draft Guide should indicate as a characteristic of EDI andrelated means of communication that they covered programmable messages, the computer programming of which was the essential difference between such messages and traditional paper-based documents.
The Working Group noted that earlier versions of the draft convention did not contain provisions dealing with electronic equivalents of"original" paper-based documents because the draft convention was essentially concerned with matters of contract formation, and not with rules of evidence.
Transferable documents orinstruments are paper-based documents or instruments that entitle the holder to claim the performance of the obligation indicated therein and that allow the transfer of the claim to that performance by transferring the document or instrument.
Important topical issues in the field of transport law include the continuing challenge of providing a transparent and user-friendly liability regime for international multimodal transport, simplification of transport documents andthe development of electronic alternatives to traditional paper-based documents.
Physical measures- paper-based documents containing personal data are stored in locked rooms and cabinets to which only certain employees have access for fulfilling their job duties; data processing rooms and IT-systems are sufficiently protected against fire, overheating, water, current instability and power outages.
It was also observed that the question of tender securities might need specific provision, in the light of the experience of certain delegations andobservers that tender securities remained paper-based documents, and simultaneous submission with electronic tenders might not be possible.
Conversely, signed paper-based documents often include a handwritten signature although stamped or affixed signatures are common as well in commerce, while a digital signature on an electronic digital document is not intended to be represented graphically unless other technologies such as signature dynamics are also employed.
However, internationally accepted standards relating to electronic documents often require qualified electronic signatures sothat signed documents can have equal legal standing to physical, paper-based documents in official proceedings, 48 which may lead to additional admissibility requirements that may be difficult to prove in courts of law.
The view was expressed that the draft Guide should explain in more detail:(1) the meaning of the words"solely on the grounds" in the Model Law;(2) that the provision under which information should"not be denied legal validity" should not be misinterpreted as establishing the legal validity of a message; and(3)that the principle that data messages should not be discriminated against meant that the Model Law was intended to eliminate disparity of treatment between EDI messages and paper-based documents.
As a matter of drafting, it was agreed that the last sentence of paragraph 36 should read as follows:"This was due to one of many distinctions between EDI messages and paper-based documents, namely, that the latter were readable by the human eye, while the former were not so readable unless reduced to paper or displayed on a screen.
The study should also consider the interface between electronic substitutes for documents of title and financial documentation used in international trade,by giving attention to efforts currently under way to replace paper-based documents, such as letters of credit and bank guarantees, with electronic messages.
This includes, for instance, work carried out under the auspices of UNECE, such as the development of a Protocol to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road(CMR)1956 to facilitate the use of electronic alternatives to traditional paper-based documents, and UN/CEFACT, such as the development of recommendations on the use of transport documents and the development of single windows.
The aim of this Recommendation is to encourage the use of electronic data transfer in international trade by recommending that Governments review national and international requirements for signatures on trade documents in order toeliminate the need for paper-based documents by meeting the requirement for manual-ink signatures through authentication methods that can be electronically transmitted.
This Recommendation seeks to encourage the use of electronic data transfer in international trade by recommending that Governments review national and international requirements for signatures on trade documents in order toeliminate the need for paper-based documents by meeting the requirement for manual-ink signatures through authentication methods that can be electronically transmitted.
Paper-based document preservation including traditional papers.
Would hauliers in your country involved with CMR welcome an official, widespread andregular use of electronic CMR Consignment Notes instead of the present paper-based document? Yes,?