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February
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Rome, Italy
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Bureau of the Meeting
of the Signatories to the Aarhus Convention
Focal point: Jeremy Wates, Tel: 917
23 84 |
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12-16
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First Meeting of the
Aarhus Convention Working Group on Compliance and Rules of Procedure
Focal point: Jeremy Wates, Tel: 917
23 84 |
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13-15
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Inland Transport Committee,
63rd session
Focal point: Helmut Lehmacher, Tel:
917 24 34 |
The Inland Transport Committee
will discuss a number of technical, economic and administrative aspects
related to transport infrastructure and regulatory questions in transport. |
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14-16
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Joint ECE/Eurostat Meeting
on the Management of Statistical Information Technology
Focal point: Jana Meliskova, Tel: 917
41 50 |
The meeting will consider
namely the following substantive issues: (i) Challenges and opportunities
for statistical offices working in a network environment; (ii) The
impact of data warehousing on the management of statistical offices;
(iii) Integration of statistical (survey) data with registers
(administrative) data; (iv) Resource management in statistical offices
and the role of information technology. |
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19
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Ad Hoc Expert Group on
the Computerization of the TIR Procedure, First session
Focal point: Poul Hansen, Tel: 917
32 58 |
The expert group will focus
on available technologies and experiences made by Customs authorities
in computerizing Customs procedures. Presentations will be made by
invited experts on so-called Smart Documents, Smart Microchip Cards
and EDI networks among national Customs authorities. Following the
meeting, expert groups will prepare technical, administrative and
legal arrangements and procedures allowing for the computerization
of the TIR system as part of Phase III of the TIR revision process.
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19-20
London, United Kingdom
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Workshop under the Convention
on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution,
"The Measurement and Economic Valuation of the Health Effects
of Air Pollution"
Focal point: Henning Wuester, Tel:
917 23 63 |
This is the first in a series
of workshops under the newly formed Network of Experts on Benefits
and Economic Instruments. The aim of the workshop is to establish
the state-of-the-art in the combined areas of epidemiology and economic
valuation. The workshop will review methodologies to assess and value
the impacts of air pollution on human health, both with respect to
morbidity and increased mortality. The result is aimed at providing
input to the assessments of the economic benefits of air pollution
abatement to support future policy development under the LRTAP Convention. |
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19-21
Bologna, Italy
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Workshop on Implementation
of Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Abatement Techniques in the Surface
Coating and Surface Degreasing
Focal point: Andrzej Jagusiewicz,
Tel: 917 23 60 |
The aim of the workshop
is to review the approach of the Parties to control emissions of VOCs
from stationary sources in general and from the surface coating and
surface degreasing sectors/activities in particular. The workshop
will also serve as a forum to facilitate the exchange of information
on VOC control options/technology between western countries and countries
with economies in transition. |
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20-23
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Working Party on Customs
Questions Affecting Transport (WP.30),
97th session
Focal point: Poul Hansen, Tel: 917 32
58 |
The Working Party will review
the status of the 14 United Nations Conventions in the field of border
crossing facilitation which are administered by the Working Party.
In particular, the Working Party will consider and decide on a new
annex to the International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier
Controls of Goods, the possible preparation of two new Conventions
for Customs transit by rail, progress in the current revision of the
TIR Convention as well as a large number of issues relating to the
application of the TIR Customs transit procedure. |
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20(pm)-23
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Working Party on Noise
(GRB)
Focal point: Jan Jerie, Tel: 917 24 22 |
34th session of a subsidiary
body of the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29);
the main item of the agenda concerns regulatory limitation of the
rolling sound of vehicle tyres. |
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21-23
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Extended Bureaux meeting
for strategic review of ECE/FAO programme of work
Focal point: Kit Prins, Tel: 917
28 74 |
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22-23
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TIR Administrative Committee,
30th session
Focal point: Martin Magold, Tel: 917
24 53 |
The TIR Administrative Committee,
the highest administrative organ representing all 63 Contracting States
and the European Community to the TIR Convention is convened at least
twice a year and is serviced by the ECE secretariat. At its spring
session, the Committee will review the activities, budget and cost
plans for 2000 and 2001 of its executive organ, the TIR Executive
Board (TIRExB), elect 9 members of the TIRExB for a two year term,
provide guidance for all work to be undertaken under the present Phase
III of the TIR revision process and adopt amendment proposals and
comments to the text of the TIR Convention, 1975.
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26-27
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Joint Ad Hoc Expert Group
on Transport and the Environment, First session
Focal point: Tea Aulavuo, Tel. 917 17
23 |
The Joint Expert Group is
mandated to assist the Joint ECE Meeting on Transport and the Environment
in identifying priorities for the effective implementation of the
so-called "Vienna Programme of Joint Action" (POJA) which
had been adopted by the ECE Ministerial Conference on Transport and
the Environment held in 1997 in Vienna. The Expert group will, in
particular, prepare the 2002 mid-term review of the POJA, review progress
made in its implementation at the national and international levels
and propose possibly new priorities to be tackled. The Expert Group
will also review the mandated activities undertaken by ECE and WHO
in the follow-up to the London Charter on Transport, Environment and
Health. |
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26-27
Sofia, Bulgaria
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Meeting of Parties to
the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary
Context, 2nd meeting
Focal point: Wiek Schrage, Tel: 917 24
48 |
The Meeting is, inter alia,
expected to take decisions on the start of negotiations on a new Protocol
on Strategic Environmental Assessment and the establishment of a compliance
system. The Meeting will be preceded by a Seminar on Sunday, 25 February.
Documentation can be found at http://www.unece.org/env/eia |
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28-
2 March
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First Meeting of the
Aarhus Convention Working Group on Pollutant Release and Transfer
Registers
Focal point: Jeremy Wates, Tel: 917
23 84 |
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