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UNECE 29th Annual Session Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP.6)

Date
20 Nov - 22 Nov 2019
Start tIme
10.00
End time
18.00
Venue
Room XII
Palais des Nations
City
Geneva, Switzerland
Address
Parc de l'Ariana
Marco Cerri, Accredia Lead Assessor, participates to the UNECE Working Party Annual Session 2019.

Highlights


The highlights of the session will be:

  • a discussion on the direction of future UNECE work on “Standards for Sustainable Development”;
  • presentation and possible 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” will be held on 20 November from 11:00 am to 1 pm in Room S4.

Downloads:

Draft Agenda for the High-Level Segment on Gender Responsive Standards
Draft programme of the annual Session
Information Note

For all additional documents, please refer to the dedicated webpage LINK.


Registration


Participation in the meetings is free of charge but registration is mandatory.

Click here to start the registration process.

Should you encounter any problems with the registration, please contact us at regulatory.cooperation@un.org.

Please also refer to the Information for Delegates for logistical details.

Programma
DAY 3
Friday 22nd November 2019
morning session
10.00
International Regulatory Cooperation
Speakers
Viktor Nazarenko
Member of the Board, Minister for Technical Regulation, Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC)
José Carlos Engra Moreno
European Commission
Sectoral Projects

Earth-Moving Machinery (EMM)

  • Dan Roley – Chairman, ISO Technical Committee on Earth-moving machinery (TC127)

Equipment for Explosive Environment (SIEEE)

  • Frank Lienesch – Initiative Convener
  • Heinz Berger – CEO, CERTICONSULT GmbH

Pipeline Security (SIPS)

  • Nadezhda Volkova – Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Cyber-security

  • David Hanlon – Secretary of Conformity Assessment Board, IEC
  • François E. Guichard – Secretary, World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29), ECE
  • Heidi Lund – Senior Adviser, National Board of Trade, Sweden
12.00
Review of recent developments in Conformity Assessment and Accreditation
Speakers
Jon Murthy
Chair IAF and ILAC, Communications and Marketing Committees, ILAC (TBC)
Marco Cerri
Lead Assessor, Accredia
12.30
Metrology
Speakers
Ian Dunmill
Assistant Director, International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML)
Organizer
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe - UNECE