The 81st annual session of the Inland Transport Committee (ITC) in 2019 marked a milestone in its history: the Committee decided the adoption of its strategy until 2030, meeting in the very same location where in 2017 Ministers from all over the world gathered alongside more than 500 participants to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the ITC and called for the development and adoption of the new ITC strategy.
For more than 70 years, the Committee has evolved into the centre of UN Inland Transport Conventions. Recognizing the worldwide impact of the regulatory work of the Committee, the increasingly global geographical scope of its legally binding instruments and the urgent need to make the worldwide regulatory framework governing inland transport more inclusive and accessible to all and support the implementation of the SDGs, the 2017 Ministerial Resolution called for the development and adoption of the new ITC Strategy. In 2018, with the participation of Ministers from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, the Committee decided to consider and adopt its Strategy until 2030 at its 81st annual session in 2019 (Geneva, 19-22 February 2019).
Weekly programme
The 2019 plenary session started on 19 February (a.m.), with a high-level policy segment on “Automation in Transport”, followed by a governments-only restricted session (p.m.), where the Committee debated and decided on its Strategy until 2030, to better position it in a fast-changing global policy environment.
The high-level policy segment was enriched by side events and exhibitions or demonstrations of new technologies related to the automation in transport.
The regular session of the Committee started on 20 February and for two-and-a-half-days, important topics on the future of inland transport governance were discussed. The most important topics debated and decided upon included Road Safety, including the setting up of the United Nations Road Safety Trust Fund; automation; Intelligent Transport Systems, digitalization; e-documents, including eCMR and eTIR; the transport of dangerous goods; border-crossing facilitation and much more.
You can find the preliminary weekly programme here.
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