ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE
COMMITTEE FOR TRADE, INDUSTRY AND
ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
Working Party on Agricultural Quality Standards
(Fifty-ninth session, 4 to 6 November 2003,
Geneva)
PROVISIONAL AGENDA
FOR THE FIFTY-NINTH SESSION
to be held in the
Palais des Nations, Geneva,
commencing at 10:00
hrs Tuesday, 4 November 2003*
Note by the secretariat: Document numbers in square brackets refer to
documents expected but not received by the time of the preparation of the
agenda. They might be available late or at the meeting as room documents. As
soon as they are received they will also be available on the home page of the
agricultural standards unit.
*� The
informal Working Groups on the Working Procedures and Internationally Harmonized
Produce Coding have the possibility to meeting on Monday 3 November 2003.� The secretariat will send out further
information closer to the meeting.
1 |
Adoption of the agenda |
TRADE/WP.7/2003/1 |
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Matters of interest arising since the last session |
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(a) |
UNECE -���������� Committee for Trade,
Industry and ����������� Enterprise
Development -���������� Working Party on Technical ����������� Harmonization and Standardization ����������� Policy -���������� Working Party on
Transport of ����������� Perishable
Foodstuffs |
TRADE/WP.7/2003/2 English French Russian |
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(b) |
Other organizations: -���������� Codex Alimentarius
Commission and ����������� Codex Committee on Fresh Fruits ����������� and Vegetables -���������� European Union -���������� ISO/TC34/SC14 -���������� OECD Scheme for the Application of
-���������� International Standards for
Fruit� and ����������� Vegetables -���������� World Trade
Organization -���������� World Health
Organization -���������� International Trade
Centre (ITC) |
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3 |
Specialized
Section on Standardization of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables |
TRADE/WP.7/GE.1/2003/26 English French Russian
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(a) |
Texts
recommended for adoption as revised or new UNECE standards: Apples Artichokes, Onions, Peaches and Nectarines,
Pears Courgettes Kiwifruit Avocados Citrus
Fruit Table
Grapes Pineapples |
TRADE/WP.7/GE.1/2003/26/Add.1 TRADE/WP.7/GE.1/2003/26/Add.3 TRADE/WP.7/GE.1/2003/26/Add.4 TRADE/WP.7/GE.1/2003/26/Add.5 TRADE/WP.7/GE.1/2003/26/Add.6 TRADE/WP.7/GE.1/2003/26/Add.8 TRADE/WP.7/2002/9/Add.9 TRADE/WP.7/2002/9/Add.12
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(b) |
Texts recommended for adoption as UNECE recommendations: Apples (two-year trial) Citrus Fruit (one-year trial) Plums
(extension of trial period for one year) |
TRADE/WP.7/GE.1/2003/26/Add.1 TRADE/WP.7/GE.1/2003/26/Add.8 TRADE/WP.7/2002/9/Add.8 |
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(c) |
Proposal to create
new UNECE Standards for Truffles and Ceps. |
TRADE/WP.7/GE.1/2003/26, paras. 113 to 125 |
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(d) |
Revision to the standard layout |
TRADE/WP.7/GE.1/2003/26/Add.3 |
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4 |
Specialized Section on Standardization of Dry and Dried Produce
(Fruit) |
TRADE/WP.7/GE.2/2003/15 |
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(a) |
Texts
recommended for adoption as revised UNECE standards: Almond Kernels Prunes |
TRADE/WP.7/GE.2/2003/15/Add.1 TRADE/WP.7/GE.2/2003/15/Add.6 |
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(b) |
Texts recommended for adoption as UNECE recommendations (one-year
trial period): Inshell Almonds Pistachio Kernels and Peeled Pistachio
Kernels Inshell Pistachio Nuts |
TRADE/WP.7/GE.2/2003/15/Add.3 TRADE/WP.7/GE.2/2003/15/Add.4 TRADE/WP.7/GE.2/2003/15/Add.5 |
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(c) |
Proposal to create
new UNECE Standards for Dried Peaches, Inshell
Peanuts and Peanut Kernels, Inshell Pecans and Pecan Kernels (United States),
Inshell Macademia Nuts and Macademia Kernels, Blanched Almonds, Dried
Tomatoes (United States, Spain), ����������� Dried
Peppers � with the possibility to include annexes on dried pepper powder To review UNECE Standard for Dates |
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(d) |
Revision
of the standard layout text (recommended for adoption) Annex
I: Determination of the moisture content for dried fruit Annex
III: Terms recommended and definition of defects |
TRADE/WP.7/GE.2/2003/15/Add.7 TRADE/WP.7/GE.2/2003/15/Add.8 |
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(e) |
Information
concerning the joint publication of the colour chart for walnut kernels by
OECD and UNECE |
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5 |
Specialized Section on Standardization of Early and Ware Potatoes |
TRADE/WP.7/GE.5/2003/6 |
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(a) |
Request
to delete the UNECE General Conditions for the Sale of Potatoes from the
publication list. |
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(b) |
Possible
future organization of the work |
TRADE/WP.7/GE.5/2003/6, paras. 32 to 35 TRADE/WP.7/GE.6/2003/10, para. 94 and� TRADE/WP.7/GE.1/2003/26, paras. 158 to 161 see also annotations |
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6 |
Specialized Section on Standardization of Seed Potatoes |
TRADE/WP.7/GE.6/2003/10 |
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Text
recommended for adoption as revised UNECE Standard |
TRADE/WP.7/2003/3
TRADE/WP.7/2003/3/Add.1
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(b) |
Information on meetings of the extended bureau: Como (Italy) 8-10 July 2003 Edinburgh
(United Kingdom) 7 to 10 October 2003 |
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Specialized Section on Standardization of Meat |
TRADE/WP.7/GE.11/2003/12 |
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(a) |
UNECE Standard for Chicken (gallus domesticus) Carcases and Parts |
TRADE/WP.7/GE.11/2003/12/Add.1 |
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(b) |
Meeting of rapporteurs on Chicken Meat (Moscow, 15 to 17 September
2003) |
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(c) |
Seminar on implementation of the beef standard (Moscow, 18 to 19
September 2003) |
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(d) |
Meeting of rapporteurs on Pork (St. Petersburg, 22 to 24 September) |
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8 |
Working group on internationally Harmonized Produce Coding |
TRADE/WP.7/GE.1/2003/26/Add.9 |
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Publications |
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(a) |
Compendium
of Standards |
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(b) |
UNECE
Standards for Meat |
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(c) |
Promotional
booklet on the work and achievements of the Working Party |
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10 |
General
questions concerning the work of WP.7 and its Specialized Sections |
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(a) |
Revision
of the procedure to develop a UNECE Standard (Spec Sec decide when to review
or do new texts) |
see
annotations
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(b) |
Proposed
revisions to the standard layout for fresh fruit and vegetables and dry and
dried fruit |
TRADE/WP.7/2003/4 |
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(c) |
Status
and possible revision of the Geneva Protocol |
TRADE/WP.7/2001/6 TRADE/WP.7/2001/9, paras. 75 to 81 |
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(d) |
Assessment of the implementation of UNECE Standards |
see annotations
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(e) |
General Conditions for sale for Fresh Fruit and Vegetables and Dry and
Dried Fruit |
see annotations
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(f) |
see annotations
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11 |
Workshops/Forum |
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(a) |
BSEC/FAO meeting, Istanbul, 29 June to 2 July |
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(b) |
UNECE/EAN International regional meeting on Trade Facilitation and the
new security environment, Istanbul, 2 to 3 July |
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(b) |
Workshop on Agribusiness Enterprise development (Israel, 9-16
September 2003) |
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(c) |
Other meetings planned by the secretariat |
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(d) |
Preparation of the forum: Trade and Enterprise in a Wider Europe, May 2004 |
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12 |
Other
business |
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13 |
Programme of work |
TRADE/WP.7/2003/5 |
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(a) |
Calendar of meetings |
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(b) |
Future work |
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14 |
Election
of officers |
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15 |
Adoption
of the report |
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4 |
November |
10.00 �
13.00 |
Items 1
� 4 |
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15.00 �
18.00 |
Items 4
� 9 |
5 |
November |
10.00 �
13.00 |
Items
10 � 14 |
6 |
November |
10.00 -
13.00 |
Item 15 |
ITEM 1 Adoption of the agenda
According
to the Commission's Rules of Procedure, the first item on the provisional
agenda shall be the adoption of the agenda.
ITEM 2 Matters of interest arising since the last session
Other
organizations as well as groups within UNECE have been invited to provide any
information that could be of interest to the Working Party. Representatives of
these groups/ organizations have been invited to present the information.
Document
TRADE/WP.7/2003/2 contains the discussion on the work of the Working Party that
was held at the 7th session of the Committee for Trade, Industry and
Enterprise Development.
ITEM 3 Specialized Section on Standardization of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables
The Working
Party will be informed on the outcome of the forty-ninth session of the
Specialized Section and will be invited to take decisions on the standards,
recommendation, new work and the change proposed to the standard layout as
indicated in the table above.
ITEM 4 Specialized Section on
Standardization of Dry and Dried Produce (Fruit)
The
Working Party will be informed on the outcome of the fiftieth session of the
Specialized Section and will be invited to take decisions on standards,
recommendations and new work as well as the annexes to the standard layout as
indicated in the table above.
The
Working Party will be informed about progress made on the development of the
Color Chart for Walnut Kernels.
ITEM 5 Specialized Section on Standardization of Early
and Ware Potatoes
(a)������� Request to delete the UNECE General Conditions for the Sale of Potatoes from the publication list.
The specialized Section decided to propose to
the Working Party to abolish the UNECE General Conditions of Sale for Potatoes as
these are no longer relevant.
(b)������� Possible
future organization of the work
At the Specialized Section a discussion was held on rationalizing the organization of the standardization work for early and ware potatoes by joining the work of the group to either the group on Fresh Fruit and Vegetables or the one on Seed Potatoes because the present participation and number of proposals did not justify keeping a separate regular meeting. This was agreed in principle but at the time of the meeting there was no consensus on which group should be joined.(see TRADE/WP.7/GE.5/2003/6, paras. 32 to 35).
In their
sessions the Specialized Sections on Standardization of Seed Potatoes and Fresh
Fruit and Vegetables recommended that discussions on Early and Ware Potatoes
should be held in the Specialized Section on Standardization of Fresh Fruit and
Vegetables (see TRADE/WP.7/GE.6/2003/10, para. 94 and� TRADE/WP.7/GE.1/2003/26, paras. 158 to 161). Because of this
clear opinion no further consultation as foreseen in TRADE/WP.7/GE.5/2003/6,
para. 35) was held.
To follow
this recommendation the Working Party should in the programme of work adjourn
the regular meetings of the Specialized Section on Standardization of Early and
Ware Potatoes sine die and give responsibility on this work to the Specialized
Section on Standardization of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables.
ITEM 6 Specialized Section on Standardization of Seed
Potatoes
The Working Party will be informed on the outcome of the thirty-second
session of the Specialized Section.
The Specialized Section recommends the adoption of the text contained in
TRADE/WP.7/2003/3 and TRADE/WP.7/2003/3/Add.1 as revised UNECE Standard for Seed Potatoes.
The
Working Party will be informed about the outcome of the meetings of the extended
bureau held in 2003 as indicated in the table.
ITEM 7 Specialized Section on Standardization of Meat
The
Working Party will be informed on the outcome of the twelfth session of the
Specialized Section.
(a)������� New UNECE Standard for
Chicken Carcases and Parts
In accordance with the outcome of the meeting of rapporteurs on chicken
meat held in Moscow (15 to 17 September) the Specialized Section might adopting
the text contained in document TRADE/WP.7/GE.11/2003/12/Add.1 and Add.2 as a
new UNECE Standard for Chicken Carcases and Parts together with the relevant
Parts descriptions (not reproduced for this meeting).
(b)������� Meeting of rapporteurs
The
Working Party will be informed on the different meetings that took place in
Russia.
ITEM 8 Working group on
Internationally Harmonized Produce Coding
The Working Party will be informed on the
progress of the working group on internationally harmonized produce coding.
ITEM 9 Publications�����
(a)������� Compendium of standards
The Specialized Sections on Standardization
of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables and Dry and Dried Fruit stated that it was not
necessary to publish a consolidated compendium of standards on paper and stated
that they were content with the present practice of publication on the
Internet.
(b)������� UNECE Standards for Meat
The
secretariat will inform the Working Party on the status of the publication of
the updated standard for beef (bovine) carcases and cuts and the new standard
for sheep (Ovine) carcases and cuts.
(c)������� Promotional booklet on the work and
achievements of the Working Party
The
secretariat will inform the Working Party on the status of this publication.
ITEM 10���������� General
questions concerning the work of WP.7 and its Specialized Sections���
(a)������� Revision of the procedure to
develop a UNECE Standard
The
Specialized Section on standardization of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables asks the
Working Party if the Procedure to develop and update UNECE Standards could be
simplified by
(i)�������� giving the authority to change entries in lists of varieties of standards to the specialized section.
(ii)������� giving the authority to begin work on a draft standard (new or revised) to the specialized section.
The
Specialized Section on Standardization of Dry and Dried Produce supports the
request under (ii).
(b)������� Proposed revisions to the standard layout for
fresh fruit and vegetables and dry and dried fruit
(c)������� Status and possible revision of the
Geneva Protocol
Background:����� TRADE/WP.7/2001/6
����������������������� TRADE/WP.7/2001/9,
paras. 75 to 81
The Working Group on Working Procedures will report on its discussions
on updating the framework in which the Working Party and its Specialized
Sections operate and the status of the revision of the working procedures.
At present the
following conventions are used to assess the status of implementation of UNECE
Standards (see also http://www.unece.org/trade/agr/info/accept.htm
(a) |
UNECE
Standard accepted and applied |
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UNECE
Standard accepted, similar EU Standard applied |
(a)NP |
UNECE
Standard accepted, though no production of this produce |
(a)IP |
UNECE
Standard in preparation to be applied |
(a)NS |
UNECE
Standard accepted, similar National Standard in use |
[pnt] |
Product
not traded |
[sip] |
Standard
in preparation |
[ns] |
National
standard in use |
The
secretariat invites the Working Party to discuss if any additional information
should be assessed and if the present format of presentation is adequate.
The secretariat would like to assess if
these publications are still relevant or could be deleted from the publications
list.
ITEM 11���������� Workshops/Forum
The Working Party will be informed on the
meetings on capacity building held in Turkey and Israel and the meetings
intended for next year.
The Working Party will also be informed about
a planned forum on Trade and Enterprise in a Wider Europe in May 2004 in Geneva
and will be invited to contribute to the preparation of this event.
ITEM 12���������� Other
business
Any other
topic can be discussed under this agenda item.
ITEM 13���������� Programme
of work����
(a)������� Calendar of meetings��
The calendar
of sessions of the Specialized Sections and the Working Party will be presented
for the consideration of the Working Party.
(b)������� Future work
Delegations
are invited to propose on areas of future work of interest to their countries.
ITEM 14���������� Election
of officers
According
to the Commission's Rules of Procedure and established practice, the Meeting is
expected to elect
a Chair
and two vice-chairs. The Working Party elected at its fifty-eighth session the following bureau:
Chair:����������� Mr.
D.L. Priester (United States of America)
Vice-Chair:��� Ms. O. Vorovenci (Romania)
Vice-Chair:��� Ms.
V. Baricicova (Slovakia)
ITEM 15���������� Adoption of the
report
The Working Party will adopt the report of its fifty-ninth session on
the basis of a draft prepared by the secretariat.
NOTE
BY THE SECRETARIAT:
Contributions
should be sent to the secretariat either on diskette by mail to :
Food Standards Officer
UNECE Trade Division
Palais des Nations
Office 432
1211 Geneva 10
Tel:�
(41) 22 917 2450���� Fax:� (41) 22 917 0041
or by
e-mail to:
Meeting
documentation will be available on our homepage:
http://www.unece.org/trade/agr/welcome.htm