Twenty-ninth Session of the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP.6)
20 - 22 November 2019
Room XII, Palais des Nations Geneva Switzerland
Highlights
The highlights of the session were:
- a discussion on the direction of future UNECE work on “Standards for Sustainable Development”;
- presentation and suggestion for adoption of a draft Recommendation on “Addressing product non-compliance risk in international trade” and of a “Proposed common regulatory framework on Cybersecurity” and
- two high level panels on “Education on standards-related issues” and on “Challenges for market surveillance authorities”.
High-level segment on Gender Responsive Standards
Prior to the meeting of the Working Party, a high-level segment on “Gender Responsive Standards” was held on 20 November from 11:00 am to 1 pm in Room S4.
Downloads:
- Agenda for the High-Level Segment on Gender Responsive Standards
- Programme of the annual Session
- Information Note
- List of participants
- Report of the Annual Session
Session Documents
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| Item 1: Adoption of the agenda | |||
| Annotated provisional agenda ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2019/1 |
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| Item 2: Election of Officers | |||
| Item 3: Matters arising | |||
| Report of the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies on its twenty-eighth session ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2018/2 |
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| Item 4: Facilitated discussion on future direction of work on “Standards and sustainable development” | |||
| Report on the Standards for the SDGs project ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2019/3 |
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| Draft report on the evaluation of UNECE’s support to the advancement of Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2019/4 |
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| Standards for the SDGs ECE/TRADE/444 |
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| Item 5: Capacity building | |||
| Training Guide on Regulatory Frameworks and Market Surveillance ECE/TRADE/441 |
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| Item 6: Adoption of the programme of work for 2019–2020 | |||
| Programme of work of the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2019/5 |
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| Trade subprogramme’s draft programme of work for 2020 ECE/CTCS/2019/10 |
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| Item 7: Gender-responsive standards initiative | |||
| Progress report on the Gender Responsive Standards Initiative ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2019/6 |
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| Gender-responsive standards ECE/TRADE/445 |
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| Item 8: Risk Management in Regulatory Systems | |||
| Risk Management in Regulatory Frameworks ECE/TRADE/390 |
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| Report on the activities of the Group of Experts on Managing Risks in Regulatory Systems ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2019/7 |
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| Recommendation V on “Addressing product noncompliance risk in international trade” ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2019/8 |
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| Item 9: Review of recent developments in standardization | |||
| Bringing standardization in University Curricula: Making the case ECE/TRADE/440 |
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| Item 10: International regulatory cooperation | |||
| Report on the sectoral initiative on cyber security ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2019/9 |
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| Report on the activities of the sectoral initiative on Earth-Moving Machinery ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2019/10 |
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| Report on the activities of the sectoral initiative on Equipment for Explosive Environments ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2019/11 |
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| Report on the activities of the sectoral initiative on the Safety of Pipelines ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2019/12 |
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| Item 11: Review of recent developments in conformity assessment and accreditation | |||
| Item 12: Metrology | |||
| Item 13: Market surveillance | |||
| Report on the Advisory Group on Market Surveillance, its activities and its meetings ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2019/13 |
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| Glossary of Market Surveillance Terms ECE/TRADE/389 |
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| Item 14: Other business | |||
| Item 15: Adoption of the report | |||
| Report on the Session ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2019/2 |
20 November 2019 - Presentations
OPENING
Dr. Marion Stoldt, Chairperson, Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP.6)
Ms. Maria Ceccarelli, Director, Officer-in-Charge, Economic Cooperation & Trade Division, UNECE
Report of the Past Session and Intersessional Developments
Ms. Lorenza Jachia, Secretary, Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP.6)
Reports of other UNECE bodies of interest to the Working Party
Ms. Maria Ceccarelli, Officer-in-Charge, Economic Cooperation & Trade Division, UNECE
Ms. Gulnara Roll, Head, Housing and Land Management Unit, UNECE
Mr. Gianluca Sambucini, Economic Affairs Officer, Sustainable Energy Division, UNECE
Ms. Hana Daoudi, Economic Affairs Officer, Market Access Section, UNECE
FACILITATED DISCUSSION: FUTURE DIRECTION OF WORK ON 'STANDARDS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT'
Mr. Valentin Tataritsky, Chairman of the State Committee for Standardization of the Republic of Belarus
Dr. Bilel Jamoussi, Chief, Study Groups Department, ITU Standardization Bureau (TSB), ITU
Mr. Henry Cuschieri, Head, Membership and External Relations, ISO
Mr. Guojian Song, Director, State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), China
Ms. Gabriela Ehrlich, Global Head, Public Affairs & Advocacy, IEC
CAPACITY BUILDING BY UNECE & PARTNERS
Ms. Marion Stoldt, Chairperson, Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP.6) and Head, International Cooperation Department, PTB, Germany
Ms. Lorenza Jachia, Secretary, Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP.6)
21 November 2019 - Presentations
GENDER RESPONSIVE STANDARDS
Report on the activities of the Initiative & presentation of the Gender Responsive Standards
KEYNOTE: INTERSECTION BETWEEN TRADE, GENDER & STANDARDS
Ms. Jodi Scholtz, Group Chief Operating Officer at the Department of Trade and Industry, South African Bureau of Standards
REPORT OF THE INITIATIVE & VIDEO
DISCUSSION ON GENDER ACTION PLANS & IMPACT
Ms. Deborah Wautier, Project Manager, Policy & Stakeholders Engagement, CEN-CENELEC
Ms. Rachna Sehgal, Chair, Task Force on Gender Responsive Standards Declaration, Bureau of Indian Standards (remote presentation)
Ms. Gabrielle White, Senior Policy Analyst, Standards Council of Canada
Ms. Noelia Garcia Nebra, Programme Manager, ISO Central Secretariat
Mr. Nathan Osburn, Director, Communications, ASTM International
PRESENTATIONS OF GENDER-RESPONSIVE STANDARDS
Mr. Thierry Geoffroy, Public Affairs Manager of AFNOR Certification, AFNOR
Mr. Nick Schlaepfer, Senior Advisor, SheTrades Initiative, ITC
RISK MANAGEMENT IN REGULATORY SYSTEMS
Report of activities under the Group of Experts on Managing Risks in Regulatory Systems
Mr. Valentin Nikonov, Co-Coordinator, Group of Experts on Risk Management in Regulatory Systems (GRM)
Discussion on draft Recommendation V on “Addressing production-compliance risk in international trade”;
Mr. Valentin Nikonov, Co-Coordinator, Group of Experts on Risk Management in Regulatory Systems (GRM)
Report on the Implementation of Recommendation S
Mr. Peter Morfee, Principal Technical Advisor, Worksafe, New Zealand (remote presentation)
Panel Discussion on integrating risk management in trade facilitation
Dr. Mohammad Saeed, Senior Trade Facilitation Adviser, ITC
Mr. Khan Salehin, Economic Affairs Officer, Economic Cooperation & Trade Division, UNECE
Mr. Valentin Nikonov, Co-coordinator, Group of Experts on Risk Management in Regulatory Systems (GRM)
REVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN STANDARDIZATION
Updates from intergovernmental organizations, and international and regional standardization bodies;
Ms. Silvia Vaccaro, Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Unit B3 Standards for Growth (DG GROWTH), European Commission
Prof. Suli Zheng, Professor, Deputy Dean, Jiliang University, China
Mr. Guggi Laryea, Stakeholder Engagement Senior Manager, amfori
Mr. Matthew Kilgarriff, Honorary Secretary / Executive Officer, Responsible Jewellery Council
HIGH LEVEL PANEL ON 'EDUCATION ON STANDARDS RELATED ISSUES'
Panel A : Teaching a New Generation of Standards Setters: Innovative Approaches
Panel members:
Prof. Knut Blind, Professor of Innovation Economics, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
Mr. Hein Bollens, Deputy Head of Unit, Standards for Growth (DG GROW), European Commission
Prof. Galina Pankina, Moscow Aviation Institute, Russian Federation
Discussants:
Ms. Belinda Cleeland, Head, Research and Innovation, ISO
Ms. Sandra Feliciano, Research Associate, Portugese Standardization Body (IPQ), Knowledge Innovation Centre; ISO 21001 Project Leader
Dr. Vladimir Schevchenko, Rector, Belarusian State Institute for Qualification Improvement and Retraining of Staff for Standardization, Metrology and Quality Management, Belarus [Speaking notes]
Panel B: Education on Standards for Sustainable Development
Panel members:
Prof. Henk de Vries, Rotterdam School of Management, President, EURAS
Prof. Marta Orviska, Matej Bel University, Slovakia
Prof. Gennadii Serov, Russian Ecological University, Russian Federation
Dr. Tineke M. Egyedi, Senior researcher, DIRoS, Netherlands
Discussants:
Mr. Andrey Lotsmanov, Deputy Chairman, Union of Entrepreneurs and Industrialists, Russian Federation
Mr. Justin Wilkes, Executive Director, ECOS
22 November 2019 - Presentations
EVALUATION OF WP. 6
INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY COOPERATION
A. Sectoral Projects
Earth-Moving Machinery (SIEMM)
Mr. Dan Roley, Ex-Chairman, ISO Technical Committee on Earth-moving machinery (TC127)
Equipment for Explosive Environment (SIEEE)
Dr. Frank Lienesch, Initiative Convener
Mr. Heinz Berger, CEO, CERTICONSULT GmbH
Pipeline Security (SIPS)
Ms. Nadezhda Volkova, General Director, SRC - Inspection and Diagnostic, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
Cyber-security (SIC)
Mr. David Hanlon, Secretary of Conformity Assessment Board, IEC
Mr. François E. Guichard, Secretary, Working Party on Automated/Autonomous and Connected vehicles (GRVA), UNECE
Ms. Heidi Lund, Senior Adviser, National Board of Trade, Sweden
REVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION
Dr. Ing. Marco Cerri, Lead Assessor, Accredia (TBC)
MARKET SURVEILLANCE
A. Update and Report from Moscow Meeting of the Advisory Group on Market Surveillance;
Ms. Vera Despotović, MARS Group Chairperson, Senior Adviser of regional coordination, Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications, Republic of Serbia (delivered by the Secretariat)
B. Common Definitions and Terminology in Market Surveillance
C. High-Level Panel Discussion on Challenges in Market Surveillance Authorities
Mr. José Carlos Engra Moreno, International Relations Officer, European Commission
Ms. Anna Koroleva, Programme Manager, Committee for Conformity Assessment, ISO
Mr. Miroslav Chloupek, WP.6 Vice-Chair, Deputy President, Czech Centre for Standards, Metrology and Testing
Mr. Timur Nurashev, Director of Department for Technical Regulation and Accreditation, Eurasian Economic Commission