Session documents

Document Title	ENG	FRE	RUS
Item 1: Adoption of the agenda
Provisional agenda for the thirty-third session ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/1	PDF	PDF	PDF
Item 2: Election of officers
Item 3: Matters arising
Report from the Bureau of Working Party 6 ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/INF.1	PDF
Item 4: Advisory Group on Market Surveillance
Report of activities under the Advisory Group on Market Surveillance 2022–2023 ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/3	PDF	PDF	PDF
Report of the 21 February 2023 meeting on “Market surveillance role in combatting counterfeit products” ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/4	PDF	PDF	PDF
Revision of Recommendation K on Metrological Assurance of Conformity Assessment and Testing, 3^rd revised version ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/5	PDF	PDF	PDF
Item 5: Group of Experts on Risk Management in Regulatory Systems
Report of activities under the Group of Experts on Risk Management in Regulatory Systems 2022–2023 ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/6	PDF	PDF	PDF
Item 6: Ad Hoc Team of Specialists on Standardization and Regulatory Techniques
Report on activities under the Ad Hoc Team of Specialists on Standardization and Regulatory Techniques 2022–2023 ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/7	PDF	PDF	PDF
Report of activities of the Education on Standardization Initiative 2022–2023 ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/8	PDF	PDF	PDF
Item 7: Team of Specialists on Gender-Responsive Standards
Report of activities of the Team of Specialists on Gender-Responsive Standards 2022–2023 ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/10	PDF	PDF	PDF
White paper on gender and salutation code lists ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/11	PDF	PDF
Why Gender-Responsive Standards are Better for Everyone ECE/TRADE/474	PDF
Item 8: Programme of work
(a) Report on capacity-building
Highlights of the Evaluation of the Standards for Sustainable Development Goals project, phase II ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/INF.3	PDF
(b) Working Party terms of reference
Summary of working practices for the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/12	PDF	PDF	PDF
Summary of practices for representation of and the use of titles within the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/13	PDF	PDF	PDF
(c) Programme of work for 2024
Programme of work of the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies for 2024 ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/14	PDF	PDF	PDF
(d) Activities of other United Nations Economic Commission for Europe bodies and other international organizations of interest to WP.6
Item 9: Panel discussion: How to address continuous compliance – Conformity assessment, legal metrology and market surveillance tools for the changing dynamic of digital goods
White paper on the regulatory compliance of products with embedded artificial intelligence or other digital technologies ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/9	PDF	PDF	PDF
Report on the possible outputs that can be developed as part of the project on regulatory compliance of products with embedded artificial intelligence or other digital technologies ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/INF.2	PDF
Item 10: Other business
Item 11: Adoption of the report
Report on the thirty-third session of the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/2	PDF	PDF	PDF

Election of officers

Information on the election process

The mandates of the chairperson and the vice-chairpersons (the Bureau) of the Working Party on regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP.6) end at the 33rd Annual Session on 23-24 November 2023.

Elections for the WP.6 Bureau will take place on 23 November 2023. The ECE member States who are physically present at the Annual Session will elect a chairperson and at least two vice-chairpersons. The term of office is two years.

UN Member States who wish to put forward a candidate for these elections may do so through their country delegation to the United Nations in Geneva with a short bio about the candidate. The deadline to submit nominations is 9 October 2023 (45 days prior to the meeting) sent to the secretary of WP.6: lance.thompson@un.org.

Received candidatures’ bios will be shared on the event website 30 days prior to the election.

Responsibilities of the WP.6 Bureau

The WP.6 bureau (comprised of a chairperson and at least two vice-chairpersons) is responsible to oversee the implementation of the decisions taken at past annual sessions – including the rolling out of the annual programme of work – and to prepare future annual sessions. The bureau reviews all project proposals for new work items under the working party and confirms the proposed project leader or nominates a different project leader in consultation with the relevant subgroup chair.

The WP.6 bureau meets at least once in between annual sessions and organizes at least one annual meeting of the WP.6 leadership (comprised of both the WP.6 bureau and the subgroup bureaux).

The WP.6 chairperson presides over the meetings of the WP.6 bureau, the WP.6 leadership and the WP.6 annual session. The WP.6 chairperson also reviews and submits a number of documents to the annual session (including the agenda, the programme of work and any official recommendations). If the WP.6 chairperson is unable to complete these tasks, one of the WP.6 vice-chairpersons would complete them.

For more information, please see the Revised terms of reference of the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2022/11) and the Summary of working practices for the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (ECE/CTCS/WP.6/2023/12).

Panel session

More information to come shortly

Thirty-third Session of the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP.6)

Follow UNECE