generated: '2026-08-03'
method: searched
source: https://catena-x.net/association/expert-groups-committees/
type: WorkingGroups
summary:
  committees: 10
  expert_groups: 30
  total: 40
  note: >-
    Catena-X publishes each group's remit but no membership and no chairs. Groups are listed
    here as the body states them; the mapping from a group to the CX standards it owns is
    given where the body itself makes the link.
committees:
- name: Architecture Management Committee (AMC)
  scope: Translate business ambitions into a scalable, interoperable architecture.
- name: Data Space Operations Committee (DSOC)
  scope: Governance and operations — release cycles, deployment gates, cross-data-space interoperability.
- name: Ecosystem Activation Committee
  scope: Network activation and market-oriented optimization; target of 1,000 users globally.
- name: Industry Core Committee
  scope: Objectives and KIT for the Industry Core.
  standards: [CX-0126]
- name: Internationalization Committee
  scope: Global expansion through regional hubs.
- name: Network Services Committee (NSC)
  scope: Shared network services; coordinates open-source implementations.
- name: Sustainability Committee
  scope: Sustainability use cases; roadmaps and requirements for PCF and DPP.
- name: Supply Chain & Quality Committee
  scope: Common vision and roadmap across quality and resiliency.
- name: Technical Committee for Modelling
  scope: Quality assurance for semantic models before standardization as Catena-X and IDTA submodel templates.
- name: Technical Committee for Standardization (TC4S)
  scope: Central standardization body and gatekeeper for standard candidates.
expert_groups:
- name: Activation Supplier Network (ASN)
  scope: Supplier adoption through low-barrier entry points.
- name: Asia-Pacific with focus Japan (APJ)
  scope: Internationalization in Japan and South Korea.
- name: Asset Chain Quality
  scope: Standardizes exchange of quality data arising from supply chain activities.
- name: Business Partner Data Management
  scope: Cross-industry standard for business partner data with BPNL/S/A identifiers.
  standards: [CX-0010, CX-0012, CX-0074, CX-0076]
- name: Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
  scope: Standardized, automated exchange of CBAM-relevant emissions data.
- name: Circular Economy
  scope: Closing material loops; supports End-of-Life Vehicle regulation compliance.
- name: Company Certificate Management
  scope: Standardized API and data model for exchanging company certificates.
  standards: [CX-0135]
- name: Data-Driven Quality Management
  scope: Data-driven quality management across the value chain.
- name: Dataspace Connectivity
  scope: Interoperability and data sovereignty for participant-to-participant communication.
  standards: [CX-0018, CX-0001]
- name: Data Sovereignty
  scope: Data Exchange Governance framework; translates sovereignty principles into standards.
- name: Demand and Capacity Management (DCM)
  scope: Maintains the DCM standard and KIT; early identification of supply bottlenecks.
  standards: [CX-0128]
- name: Digital Product Passport (DPP)
  scope: Digital product passports for automotive products; circular economy and regulatory compliance.
- name: Digital Twins
  scope: Asset Administration Shell-based digital twin integration and interoperability.
  standards: [CX-0002]
- name: Due Diligence Governance
  scope: Environmental and human rights compliance requirements within supply chains.
- name: ECU CryptoMaterial
  scope: Standardized exchange of cryptographic information for Electronic Control Units.
- name: Exchange Patterns
  scope: Reusable exchange patterns as architecture guardrails.
- name: Legal
  scope: Develops and maintains the legal framework, including the altitude layer model.
- name: Masterdata & Geometry
  scope: Cross-company engineering processes; sharing engineering and 3D master data.
- name: Material
  scope: Common aspect model for material data, aligned with the International Material Data System.
- name: Material Accounting
  scope: Methodology for tracking secondary material share.
- name: Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
  scope: Multi-stakeholder collaboration in vehicle development with data sovereignty preserved.
- name: Onboarding & Offboarding
  scope: Procedures and system-supported processes for integration and compliant exit.
- name: PCF Interoperability and Architecture
  scope: Technical interoperability of PCF solutions; updates the PCF exchange standard.
- name: PCF Methodology and Verification
  scope: The PCF rulebook; verification and certification of PCF data.
- name: PCF Secondary Data Provisioning
  scope: Data types, mapping rules and approximation methods for PCF reporting.
- name: Product Approval
  scope: Digitalizes product and production-process approval across the value chain.
- name: PURIS
  scope: Predictive Unit Real-Time Information Service — automating decisions on supply disruptions.
- name: Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)
  scope: Vision, strategy and standards for SSI within the network.
- name: Software
  scope: Standardized Software Bill of Materials based on SPDX.
- name: Tariffs
  scope: Harmonized exchange of tariff-relevant information, aligned with U.S. Section 232 declarations.