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Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP.6)

 
Eighteenth Session of the Working Party
3 and 4 November 2008
Room XI, Palais des Nations, Geneva

 
  • Introduction
  • In-session documents
  • Presentations
  • List of Participants
  • Report
The 18th session of the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP. 6) took place on 3 and 4 November 2008. It included the following events:
  • Panel Session 1 - “Market Surveillance Model Initiative”: 3 November (afternoon) in Room XI

  • Panel Session 2 - “Sectoral Initiative on Equipment for Explosive Environments”: 3 November (afternoon) in Room A.206

  • Panel Session 3 - “Private Standards”: 4 November 2008 (morning) in Room XI

Item 1 - Adoption of the agenda
Annotated provisional agenda
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/1		 ENG FRE RUS

Item 2 - Election of Officers

Item 3 - Matters arising from recent meetings of the Bureau of the Committee on Trade

Item 4 - Panel sessions

(a) Panel session 1 - Market Surveillance Model Initiative

(b) Panel session 2 - Sectoral Initiative on Equipment for Explosive Environments (SIEEE)

(c) Panel session 3 - Private Standards

Item 5 - Standardization and regulatory practice

(a) Review of developments

(b) Revision of UNECE recommendations
UNECE Recommendations on Standardization Policies
ECE/TRADE/378		 ENG FRE RUS
Approved Recommendation "M"
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2007/10/Rev.1		 ENG FRE RUS
Proposed revision of Recommendation "K"
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/6		 ENG FRE RUS

Item 6 - Regulatory cooperation
UNECE Recommendations on Standardization Policies
ECE/TRADE/378		 ENG FRE RUS
Guidelines for the Establishment and Functioning of Teams of Specialist within UNECE
ECE/EX/2		 ENG FRE RUS

(a) Regional projects

(b) Sectoral projects
Progress report on the sectoral initiative on SIEEE
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/8		 ENG FRE RUS
Terms of Reference for the Sectoral Project on Equipment for Explosive Environments
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/8/Add.1		 ENG - -
Progress report on the sectoral initiative on Telecom
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/9		 ENG FRE RUS
Progress report on the sectoral initiative on Earth-Moving Machinery Initiative
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/10		 ENG FRE RUS
Progress Report on the Sectoral Initiative on Earth-Moving Machinery
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/10/Add.1		 ENG - -

Item 7 - Review of recent developments in conformity assessment and accreditation

Item 8 - Market surveillance

(a) Updates from regional groupings and the Advisory Group on Market Surveillance ("MARS" Group)
Report of the "MARS" Group of its meeting in Bratislava, 2-3 October 2008
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/11		 ENG - -
Information from the CIS on Market Surveillance
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/12		 ENG FRE RUS

(b) Updates Market Surveillance Initiative
(Draft) Terms of Reference of the Market Surveillance Model Initiative
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/13		 ENG FRE RUS
The General Market Surveillance Procedure
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/2/Add.1		 ENG FRE RUS

(c) Update on the negotiations on an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)

Item 9 - Metrology
Proposed revision of Recommendation "K"
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/6		 ENG FRE RUS

Item 10 - Programme of work and priorities of the Working Party
Report of the second session of the Committee on Trade
ECE/TRADE/C/2007/19		 ENG FRE RUS
Programme of Work and Priorities for 2009-2010
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/14/Rev.1		 ENG FRE RUS
Evaluation of the 17th session of the Working Party and its International Seminar
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/15		 ENG - -

Item 11 - Capacity-building
Report on "Aid for Trade in Trade-related Standards"
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/16		 ENG - -

Item 12 - Other business

Item 13 - Adoption of the report

Agenda item 5 (a) Review of developments

• Rita L’Abbate, The New Legislative Framework

Agenda item 6 (a) Regional projects and 6 (b) Sectoral projects

• Dan Roley, International Model for Technical Harmonization

• Per Döfnäs, The Telecom Initiative and WTO Non Tariff Barriers proposals

Agenda item 9 Metrology

• Willem Kool, OIML Update

Please note that this is a consolidated list of participants in all the events of the session, which included the 18th session of the Working Party, the Panel Session on the Market Surveillance Model Initiative, the Panel Session on the Sectoral Initiative on Equipment for Explosive Environments and the Panel Session on Private Standards.

Report of the Session
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/18		 ENG FRE RUS
Report of the Session - Corrigendum
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/18/Corr.1 (English only)		 ENG - -
Report of the Session
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/18		 ENG FRE RUS