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May
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2
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Third Meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Working Group of Senior Officials to prepare the Fifth Ministerial
Conference "Environment for Europe"
Focal point:
Mary Pat Silveira, Tel: 917 13 15
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2-4
Bratislava
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Implementation Committee for the Convention
on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution
Focal point:
Henning Wuester, Tel: 917 23 63
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The task of the Implementation Committee is to
review compliance by Parties with their obligations under the Protocols
to the Convention. At this meeting, the Committee will review, in
particular, compliance by Parties with their obligations under the
1991 Protocol on Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) to reduce their
VOC emissions by at least 30% by the end of 1999.
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2-4
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ECE/UNDP Task Force Meeting on a Regional Gender
Website
Focal point:
Lene Mikkelsen, Tel: 917 4113
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Further information about the ECE/UNDP Regional
Gender Website project is available from: www.unece.org/stats/gender/
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3 (pm)
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Briefing by Executive Secretary to Missions
Focal point:
Susan Bartolo, Tel: 917 14 69
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Room VIII.
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3
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Expanded Bureau Meeting on the regional preparations
for the World Summit on Sustainable Development
Focal point:
Mary Pat Silveira, Tel: 917 13 15
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4
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High-level Meeting on Transport, Environment
and Health, First session
Focal point:
Tea Aulavuo, Tel: 917 17 23
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Room VII.
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7-11
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Working Party on the Transport of Dangerous
Goods, 70th session
Focal point:
Olivier Kervella, Tel: 917 24 56
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The Working Party will monitor the status of
the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of
Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR) and related multilateral/bilateral
agreements. The Working Party will also consider proposals of amendments
to Annexes A and B of ADR concerning in particular operation and
construction of vehicles for the transport of dangerous goods and
tank-vehicles. It will also consider questions related to the safety
of the transport of dangerous goods in tunnels and to the follow-up
of the Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Caused during Carriage
of Dangerous Goods by Road, Rail and Inland Navigation Vessels (CRTD)
(Agenda: TRANS/WP.15/164).
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7(pm)-
11 (am)
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Working Party on Passive Safety (GRSP)
Focal point:
Juan Ramos Garcia,
Tel: 917 19 98
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49th session of the body subsidiary to the World
Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29). Consideration
of a range of amendments to ECE Regulations regarding vehicle
passive safety requirements.
Website: www.unece.org/trans/main/welcwp29.htm
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7
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Spring Seminar: "Creating a Supportive
and Secure Environment for Business Enterprise and Economic Growth:
Institutional Reform and Governance"
Focal point:
Paul Rayment, Tel: 917 27 78
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Room XVII.
Papers on: Public and Corporate Governance (William Lazonick),
Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Paul Hare),
Corruption in Economic Transition and Development (Shang-Jin
Wei), The Challenge of Subverting Corruption (Kaminski and
Kaminski).
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8-11
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FIFTY-SIXTH SESSION OF THE ECONOMIC COMMISSION
FOR EUROPE
Focal point:
Jean Michel Jakobowicz,
Tel: 917 44 44
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Room XVII.
First Day Discussion: "Business enterprise and economic
growth in the Central Asian and Caucasian countries: creating a
supportive and secure environment". Discussion leaders from
World Bank, Oxford University, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan,
Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, London School of Economics.
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9-11
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Task Force on Emissions Inventories and Projections
held jointly with the EIONET Workshop
Focal point:
Brinda Wachs, Tel: 917 24 52
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Annual meeting of the Task Force to consider
reporting requirements and methodologies for the transmission of
harmonized emissions data for modelling and projections under the
Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution.
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14-15
Budapest
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Working Group on Water and Health, First Meeting
Focal point:
Rainer Enderlein, Tel: 917 23 73
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14-16
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Joint FAO/ECE Working Party on Forest Economics
and Statistics
Focal point:
Kit Prins, Tel: 917 28 74
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Main topics: role of the Working Party, plans
for long term outlook studies of the sector, collection and dissemination
of statistics, including interagency cooperation, direction of forest
resource assessment work, marketing programme.
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14-16
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Ad Hoc Working Group on the Protocol on Strategic
Environmental Assessment
Focal point:
Wiek Schrage, Tel: 917 24 48
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First meeting of the Working Group Negotiating
a New Protocol under the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment
in a Transboundary Context.
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14-16
Brussels
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Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling
(twenty-sixth meeting)
Focal point: Henning
Wuester, Tel: 917 23 63
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The Task Force will discuss recent results on
emission projections and trends. It will continue its work on the
modelling of particulate matter pollution, including their health
impacts. Progress in work to link regional modelling to global and
local issues will be reviewed.
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15-18
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Meeting of Specialized Section on Coordination
of Standardization of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables
Focal point:
Tom Heilandt, Tel: 917 24 50
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21-23
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Joint ECE/Eurostat Work Session on Migration
Statistics
Focal point:
Juraj Riecan, Tel: 917 33 28
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This ECE-Eurostat joint meeting is being organized
in cooperation with the United Nations Statistics Division (NY).
It is expected to assist ECE countries in assessing the extent to
which they can implement the new set of the UN Recommendations on
International Migration Statistics. The meeting will also provide
a platform for countries to discuss methods of measuring inflows
and outflows based on different definitions and data sources used
and on coverage and reliability. Issues related to the cooperation
between the national statistical offices and other governmental
ministries and agencies will be also considered. Eurostat will also
present a report on progress made in the second phase of its migration
project for countries in Mediterranean Region, and ILO will make
a presentation on strategies for developing statistics on the international
migration of workers.
http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/2001.05.migration.htm
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28-30
St. Peters-burg
Russian Fed.
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ECE/CIS-STAT/OECD Meeting on National Accounts
Focal point:
Lidia Bratanova, Tel: 917 17 72
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The purpose of the meeting is to discuss with
national accounts experts from the CIS countries national accounting
issues of specific interest to them. Future co-operation with these
countries, including technical assistance will be also discussed.
http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/2001.05.sna.htm
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28-
1 June
Berne
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Joint Meeting of the RID Safety Committee and
the ECE Working Party on the Transport of Dangerous Goods
Focal point:
Olivier Kervella, Tel: 917 24 56
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The Joint Meeting will consider proposals of
amendment to texts common to the Regulations concerning the international
Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail (RID) and Annexes A and B of
the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of
Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR), submitted by Contracting Parties
or the secretariat. These proposals concern inter alia harmonization
of RID and ADR with the UN Model Regulations on the Transport of
Dangerous Goods, questions relating to the carriage of gases, transport
documents and construction of tank-containers (Agenda: TRANS/WP.15/AC.1/83).
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28-
1 June
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Working Party on Pollution and Energy (GRPE)
Focal point:
Jan Jerie, Tel: 917 24 22
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The 42nd session will consider amendments to
ECE exhaust emission Regulations (including also gas-fuelled engines),
and a proposal for new Regulation concerning the power measurement
of non-road mobile machinery engines. Preparation should start for
a round-table concerning "New Vehicle Propulsion Technologies"
(February 2002). Before and after the GRPE session there will be
informal meetings focusing on particulate emissions and the development
of emission test cycles for heavy-duty engines and for motorcycles.
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30-
1 June
Portoroz, Slovenia
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Task Force on Measurement and Modelling (second
meeting)
Focal point:
Henning Wuester, Tel: 917 23 63
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The Task Force will continue to prepare an assessment
report covering air pollution trends over the past 20 years. It
will discuss the atmospheric modelling and monitoring of heavy metals
pollution and new developments in modelling acidifying and ozone-forming
pollutants. A meeting of the EIONET of the European Environment
Agency is held in conjunction with this meeting and a joint session
will be organized.
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