Steering Committee on Trade Capacity and Standards - Sixth Session

Item 3: Matters arising

• ►Ms. Elisabeth Tuerk, Director, Economic Cooperation and Trade Division, UNECE

Agenda Item 4: Supporting the removal of regulatory and procedural barriers to trade: Serbia

• ►Mr. Stevan Nikčević, State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications and Chairman of the Serbian Trade Facilitation Body
• ►Ongoing reforms and key findings and recommendations emerging from the UNECE assessment Ms. Hana Daoudi, Economic Affairs Officer, Market Access Section, ECTD, UNECE
• ►Mr. Dusko Marinkovic, Deputy Director General, Customs Administration of Serbia
• ►Consolidating the national system of quality infrastructure: Priority needs Mr. Zoran Bakic, Head of Special Working Group on the Regulation of Quality and Products Safety, Ministry of Economy of Serbia
• ►Ms. Francoise Jacob, United Nations Resident Coordinator, Serbia

Agenda item 5: Findings and recommendations emerging from the COVID-19 impact assessments targeting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in selected countries

• ►Increasing the contribution of non-tariff measures to post pandemic recovery and structural transformation: Challenges and recommendations emerging from UNECE assessments Ms. Hana Daoudi, Economic Affairs Officer, Market Access Section, ECTD, UNECE
• ►Mr. Artur Maysuryan, Head of EU Economic Cooperation Department, Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Armenia
• ►Ms. Elina Simonyan, Advisor, Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Armenia
• ►Ms. Iryna Babachenok, Deputy Head of the Main Department of Regional Development and Property Relations, Head of the Department of Property Relations, Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus
• ►Mr. Shombi Sharp, Resident Coordinator, UN Resident Coordinator Office in Armenia
• ►Ms. Joanna Kazana, Resident Coordinator, UN Resident Coordinator Office in Belarus
• ►Ms. Sabine Machl, Resident Coordinator, UN Resident Coordinator Office in Georgia
• ►Mr. Simon Springett, Resident Coordinator, UN Resident Coordinator Office in the Republic of Moldova

General debate on issues discussed under agenda items 4 and 5

• ►Statement of Hungary
• ►Mr. Christoph Schneider, Department for Economic and Trade Policy, Chamber of Commerce Austria, Vienna, Austria

Agenda item 6: Country follow-up to Economic Commission for Europe studies on regulatory barriers and procedural barriers to trade

• ►Mr. Rustambek Sartkalchaev, IT Expert Administrator, Single Window State Enterprise in foreign trade under the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Kyrgyz Republic
• ►Mr. Ralf Peters, Chief, Trade Information Section and Officer-in-Charge, Trade Analysis Branch, Division on International Trade in Goods, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

Agenda item 7: Programme of Work

• (a) Updates from subsidiary bodies
  ►Chair’s Note on the Informal Virtual Consultations of the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP.6)
  ►Chair’s Note on the Informal Virtual Consultations of the Working Party on Agricultural Quality Standards (WP.7)
• (b) Capacity-building and technical assistance activities
  ►Regional Advisor’s Report, Mr. Mario Apostolov, Regional Advisor, ECTD/UNECE
  ►Independent Review of the Project: Strengthening the National Capacities of Selected UNECE Countries for Evidence-Based Regulatory and Procedural Trade Policies to Achieve SDGs
• (c) Cooperation with other organizations and Economic Commission for Europe bodies
  ►Updates - UN/CEFACT
• (d) Stakeholder needs and priorities
  ►Mr. Askar Mirsaidov, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the United Nations Office and other International Organisations in Geneva
• (f) Trade subprogramme's programme of work for 2022 and outline of key components of the programme of work for 2023
  ►UN/CEFACT Programme of Work for 2022