Twenty-fifth Session of the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP.6)
Twenty-fifth Session of the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP.6)
Introduction
The 25th Annual Session of the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP.6) took place from 2nd December (afternoon) to 3 December 2015.
The Annual Session was held back to back to the WSC Workshop on Conformity Assessment organized by the the World Standards Cooperation (WSC) on 1st and 2nd December (morning).
The WSC Workshop included discussions on topical items including the proliferation of counterfeit goods and of fraudulent certificates. Experts also illustrated possible solutions, such as Global Schemes for the assessment of conformity.
The Annual Session of the Working Party invited experts to review experiences in regulatory cooperation and adopted revision of the Working Party’s Recommendation L for Technical Harmonization.
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Documents
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| Item 1: Adoption of the agenda | |||
| Annotated provisional agenda ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2015/1 |
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| Item 2: Election of Officers | |||
| Item 3: Matters arising | |||
| Contribution of the WP.6 to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2015/3 |
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| Item 4: Programme of Work | |||
| (a) Report of the past session and intersessional developments | |||
| Report of the Working Party 6 on its twenty-fourth session ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2014/2 |
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| (b) Reports by other UNECE bodies of potential interest to the Working Party | |||
| (c) Adoption of the WP.6's intersessional implementation plan | |||
| Draft programme of work of the trade subprogramme for 2016-2017 ECE/CTCS/2015/7 |
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| Draft intersessional implementation plan for WP.6 ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2015/4 |
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| Item 5: Risk Management in regulatory systems | |||
| Risk Management in Regulatory Frameworks ECE/TRADE/390 |
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| Progress report on the activities of the Group of Experts on Managing Risks in Regulatory Systems ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2015/5 |
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| Item 6: International Regulatory Cooperation | |||
| (a) International regulatory cooperation | |||
| Draft revised Recommendation L ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2015/6 |
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| Regulatory Cooperation: A Wikihow ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2015/7 |
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| (b) Regional developments | |||
| (c) Sectoral projects | |||
| Progress report on the sectoral initiative on Telecom ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2015/8 |
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| Progress report on the sectoral initiative on Earth-Moving Machinery (EMM) ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2015/9 |
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| Progress report on the sectoral initiative on Equipment for Explosive Environment (SIEEE) ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2015/10 |
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| Progress report on the sectoral initiative on the Safety of Pipelines ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2015/11 |
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| Item 7: Standardization and Regulatory Practice | |||
| (a) Review of developments in standardization | |||
| (b) Education on standards-related issues | |||
| (c) Review of relevant development in regulatory practice | |||
| Item 8: Review of recent development in conformity assessment and accreditation | |||
| Item 9: Market Surveillance | |||
| (a) Update from the Advisory Group on Market Surveillance | |||
| Report of the Advisory Group on market surveillance, its activities and its meetings (ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2015/12) |
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| (b) The Market Surveillance Model Initiative | |||
| The Market surveillance general concept and how it relates to the activities of the Working Party ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2009/11 |
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| Draft guide to the use of the General Market Surveillance Model ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2009/12 |
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| (c) Common definitions and terminology in market surveillance | |||
| Glossary of Market Surveillance Terms ECE/TRADE/389 |
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| (d) Update on the development of the Global Market Surveillance database | |||
| Item 10: Metrology | |||
| Item 11: Capacity-building | |||
| Item 12: Other business | |||
| Item 13: Adoption of the report | |||
| Report of the Session ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2015/2 |
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Presentations
| Takeaways from the World Standards Cooperation (WSC) Workshop on Conformity Assessment, 1 - 2 December, Salle VII, Palais des Nations, Geneva | |
| 2 December 2015 | |
| 15:00 - 15:10 Opening speech | Opening by Mrs Virginia Cram-Martos, Director, Economic Cooperation and Trade Division (ECTD) |
| 15:20 - 15:40 Matters arising from recent and forthcoming international and UNECE meetings and areas of priority action for the Working Party |
Presentation by the Secretariat and open discussion |
| 15:40 - 16:00 Report on past session and intersessional developments |
Presentation by the Secretariat and open discussion |
| 16:00 - 16:30 Reports by other UNECE bodies of potential interest to the Working Party |
Harm Jan van Burg, Vice-Chair, UN/CEFACT Liliana Annovazzi-Jakab, Secretary, UNECE WP.7 |
| 16:30 - 18:00 International regulatory cooperation |
Christer Arvius, Special Advisor to the WP.6 Bureau, Sweden Petros C. Mavroidis, E15 Initiative, ICTSD and WEF Per Döfnäs, Ericsson Dan Roley, Chairman, ISO/TC 127 Frank Lienesch, PTB, Germany Roman Samsonov, Rapporteur of SIPS initiative |
| 3 December 2015 | |
| 10:00 - 12:15 Review of relevant developments in standardization and regulatory practice |
Alexander Zazhigalkin, Deputy Head, Rosstandart, Russia Andrey Lotsmanov, Head of the Council on technical regulation and standardization under Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade |
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Guilaine Fournet, International Electrotecnical Commission (IEC) Thomas Robertson, Project Coordinator, Affiliate Country Programme & International Liaison for Developing Countries, IEC Camilla Åberg, International Relations Manager, Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) Katja Modrić Škrabalo, Policy Officer, Europrean Commission, DG GROWTH Sara Gobbi, Director of EU Affairs, ASTM International |
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12:15 - 13:00
Discussion on the outcome of WSC CA Conference |
Laurent Charlet, Project Manager, Conformity Assessment, ISO Jon Murthy, Chair of the Joint IAF-ILAC Marketing and Communications Committee: David Hanlon, Conformity Assessment Board (CAB) Secretary, IEC Head of ICT standards coordination |
| 15:00 - 16:00 Risk management in Regulatory Systems |
Roland Cormier, Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Germany |
| 16:00 - 17:00 Market surveillance |
Vera Despotović, MARS Chairperson Victor Dravitsa, Director, Centre for Identification Systems, Belarus Ivan Hendrikx, Coordinator of the General Market Surveillance Initiative (by teleconference) |
| 17:20 - 17:30 Results of the needs assessment studies undertaken by the Secretariat on regulatory and procedural barriers to trade |
WP.6 Secretariat and Mika Vepsäläinen, Secretary, Steering Committee on Trade Capacity and Standards (SCTCS) |