The Executive Committee is composed of the officers of the corporation and the past Chair of the Board. Its role is to develop the board agenda and oversee the staff operations and performance.

The Finance Committee is comprised of appointed Board of Trustee Members that oversee the Finances of CIECA. The Treasurer of the CIECA Board of Trustees serves as the Chairman of the Finance Committee.

The Marketing Committee is comprised of appointed Board of Trustee Members and other interested members to oversee the Marketing activities of CIECA.

The Policy/Nominating Committee is comprised of appointed Board of Trustee Members and other interested members to review and maintain CIECA's Policy Manual, as well as, serve recommend the nominations for the CIECA Annual Awards, Board of Trustee Members, and Board Officers. The Secretary of the Board of Trustees serves as the Chairman of the Policy/Nominating Committee.

The Standards Advisory Board is composed of the Standards Development Committee Chairs reporting to the Standards Advisory Board. The Vice-Chair of the CIECA Board of Trustees serves as the Chairman of the Standards Advisory Board. The purpose of the CIECA Standards Advisory Board (SAB) is to facilitate and coordinate the activities of the various CIECA Standards Development Committees. The SAB reports to the CIECA Board of Trustees. All Standards Development Committees will report to the SAB. The Board of Trustees, however, is ultimately responsible for the all CIECA activities.

This committee was originally formed in 2004. The original Strategic Plan was fully adopted in June 2005 with full Board approval. Each year, typically in January, the Board hosts a Strategic Planning session open to all CIECA members for the purpose of maintaining the Plan.

The Certification Committee is an Ad-Hoc committee of the Board comprised of appointed Board of Trustee Members and other interested members. The purpose of the CIECA Certification Committee is to validate the consistent use of current CIECA standards in the collision repair industry. The committee has developed an ongoing Certification process to ensure that the implementation of the software applications interchange documents is in compliance with CIECA standards.

This committee was formed as an ad-hoc committee in 2004. By the end of 2004, the CRC was implemented with a Knowledge Base. ASA and SCRS have agreed to answer all automotive related questions. CIECA Staff and Volunteers will answer all technical questions.

The Repairer Advisory Panel was chartered on 4/13/2005 by unanimous vote of the Board of Trustees. The purpose of the Panel would be to “Listen to their (repairers) pain,” hear from them directly “What is in it for me?” and provide direct input into the planning of CIECA's projects and programs.

“The concept of the Repairer Advisory Panel for CIECA is BIG! The open dialogue between all participants will prove to be a valuable tool as CIECA pushes toward a cleaner more concise manner for all parties to communicate and conduct business electronically. Our industry revolves around the exchange of information. I am excited to be a part of identifying "Repairer Friendly" initiatives and results,” said Gary Wano, GW & Sons Auto Body.

This committee is a sub-committee of the RAP. It develops and maintains tools required by and benefitting the Repair Shop in identifying and defining the shop's IT systems. The tools developed are offered to Repair Shops at no charge. This committee is the developer of ShopAssist.

The Interoperability and Implementation Committee focuses on:
- Determining the current status of implementations
- Interviewing and consolidating implementation experiences of CIECA members, then documenting success factors, barriers, failure points, costs, and other related aspects of implementation
- Evaluating the costs, benefits, and implementation timeframes for all industry segments
- Collecting industry information regarding issues surrounding interoperability issues in software products and platforms, and other industry standards, and developing tools and resources to overcome barriers
- Developing the tools and resources for all aspects of the implementation process, from cost justification to implementation to operation and maintenance

The Education Committee focuses on:
- Developing education and training programs as a service for the development of the member’s internal staff and to facilitate knowledge transfer from standards developers to standards implementers.
- Developing education and training courses to promote CIECA and CIECA standards.
- Developing the content and delivery alternatives for this education and training. CIECA Staff is responsible for the physical delivery.
- All delivery options will be explored: web based video, face-to-face, printed, Webinars, etc.
- Sessions will be offered in 5-10 minute (estimate) lengths for on-line courses
- CIECA University will be created and open to everyone at no charge.

The Board of Trustees established an Architecture Committee empowered to establish rules and take responsibility for the development of technical and architectural aspects of CIECA standards. The Architecture Committee reports to the Standards Advisory Board (SAB). This committee is comprised of Business and Technical people from CIECA member companies. This committee is also responsible for researching and assessing new technologies and for acting as a liaison with other industry standards organizations and other associations. Click to view its Charter

The Parts and Material Procurement Committee focuses on:
- Providing transmission formats for the order, order response, and final bill.
- Providing Industry definitions for all entities involved in this process.
- Providing Industry definitions for formats and messaging elements.
- Establishing relationships to existing data elements.
- Determining the benefits to all industry segments.
- Developing a standard formatting for data communications.
- Providing a format to facilitate the distributing a single parts order between OEM, Non-OEM, recycled, reconditioned and remanufactured parts distributors/suppliers.
- Developing the tools and formats for consolidating actual parts ordering information so ordering information can be communicated to appropriate entities.
- Establishing Parts and Material Procurement Implementation Guide(s).
- Developing new message types, code lists and/or fields (as needed) to facilitate parts and materials procurement.
- Messages will include the full spectrum of the order management process; including the parts and materials request, request response, change order, status, returns, and cancellations.

This committee is inactive at this time.

The Glass Committee is chartered with developing electronic business standards that can be adopted and implemented by auto glass replacement companies, insurance carriers, third party administrators, suppliers, consumers, and related collision industry members and their associations. The objective of the Glass Committee is to define standard implementations for data exchange of glass work assignments, repair invoices, remittance advice, and acknowledgements between industry participants. The committee has included property glass in its scope beginning in 2008.

The Board of Trustees established a Rental Management Committee for the purpose of creating electronic workflow between interested parties and defining data exchange standard for messages relating to vehicle rental. Transactions will include, but will not be limited to, assignment, extensions, status, acknowledgement, transaction tracking, event tracking, and reporting.

The CIECA Salvage Committee was organized to define industry-wide standards to improve and streamline the salvage disposition process. The salvage disposition process generally involves the segment of the claims settlement process which starts when a vehicle has been declared a total loss up to the sale or disposal of the totaled vehicle. Traditionally, all communication between Salvage Providers (e.g., insurers, rental car companies, fleet management companies) and Salvage Vendors (e.g., salvage pools, online auction companies, etc.) has been done via phone or fax or through proprietary interfaces and websites.

The Mission of the CIECA Salvage Committee is to help shorten salvage vehicle disposition and acquisition cycle time, make the process more efficient, and reduce the perceived risks by facilitating the electronic transfer of transaction information between all parties.

The Subrogation Committee was formed to develop electronic subrogation messages for the property casualty insurance industry, including insurance carriers, subrogation vendors, subrogation investigators, subrogation attorneys, third party intermediaries, and software companies.

The Subrogation Committee focuses on:
- Providing transmission formats for the assignment for subrogation investigation and resolution.
- Providing Industry definitions for all entities involved in this process.
- Providing Industry definitions for formats and messaging elements.
- Establishing relationships to existing data elements.
- Determining the benefits to all industry segments.
- Developing a standard formatting for data communications.
- Providing a format to facilitate the resolution of subrogation claims.
- Developing the tools and formats for completing the resolution of subrogation claims and surrounding efforts to complete the research.
- Establishing Subrogation Implementation Guide(s).
- Developing new message types, code lists and/or fields (as needed) to facilitate subrogation processing and claims.
- Messages will include the full spectrum of the subrogation assignment for investigation, subrogation resolution assignment, status requesting and reporting, and settlement resolution.

The Vehicle Damage and Imaging committee develops and maintains standard implementations of the CIECA BMS to facilitate electronic data exchange between parties involved in the appraisal and/or restoration of a vehicle that has incurred a loss. This includes but is not limited to work requests/assignments, appraisals, images, and repair invoices.

Repair Status Committee focuses on:
- Identifying and documenting the “Stages” of the Repair Process.
- Identifying and documenting the “Events” during the Repair Process.
- Identifying and documenting the “External Status” points that require notification to a Repair Process partner.
- Identifying and documenting the “Application Systems” utilized by all Repair Process partners at each stage of the Repair Process.
- Identifying and documenting the CIECA messages that currently exist and determine if any modifications are required.
- Identifying and documenting all External Status Codes required during the Repair Process; and Publishing same.
- Developing and/or modifying Implementation Guides to be utilized; and Publishing same.