Meetings - General

CALENDAR OF MEETINGS - 2000

1999
2000	January	February	March	April	May	June
	July	August	September	October	November	December	2001

December		Comments
4-13	Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, 21^st session Focal point: Olivier Kervella, Tel: 917 24 56	ECOSOC subsidiary body serviced by the UN/ECE secretariat. The Committee will consider the work of its Sub-Committee over the biennium 1999-2000 and should approve new recommendations on the transport of dangerous goods and a programme of work for 2001-2002. Parallel Working Group on Gas Receptacles and Multiple Element Gas Containers scheduled for 4-8 December. Last session before reconfiguration into a Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals in 2001.
4-5 Vienna	Second Meeting of Aarhus Convention Task Force on Genetically Modified Organisms Focal point: Jeremy Wates, Tel: 917 23 84
4-5	Forum on Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure: the Next Steps Focal point: Geoffrey Hamilton, Tel: 917 28 38 / 917 13 79	Website: http://www.unece.org/press/specialevent/00fpppi_main.htm
6	Working Party on International Legal and Commercial Practice Focal point: Geoffrey Hamilton, Tel: 917 28 38
6-7	Regional Conference on Financing for Development Focal point: Geoffrey Hamilton, Tel: 917 28 38	Website: http://www.unece.org/press/specialevent/00rcmfd_main.htm
6-7	International Trade Procedures Working Group Focal point: Rocio Cardenas, Tel: 917 11 78
13-15	Team of Specialists on Radioactive Contaminated Scrap Focal point: B. Roux-Fouillet, Tel: 917 32 41	We live in a society which recycles increasing quantities of materials. This, therefore, increases the materials life cycle and the risks of recycling materials contaminated by other undesirable materials or radiations. In order to harmonize the measures to be taken to prevent the introduction of or facilitate the discovery of radioactive contaminated metallurgical scrap, a Team of Specialists on this question was created. The partners in the discussions are the representatives of the Governments, of the Steel and of the Recycling industries, of the regulatory national and international bodies. The team of specialists entrusted a reduced group of drafters with the task of presenting guidelines for the "Management of possible radiation protection aspects during the recycling of metallurgical scrap". The meeting of 13-15 December will gather the invited members of the reduced group of drafters in order to hopefully finalize the last chapters of the guidelines. The final draft will be presented for comments to an enlarged meeting which will take place in February 2001.