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

 

Panel session 3 - Private Standards

 

  • Introduction
  • Documents
  • Presentations
  • List of Participants
  • Report

The panel session - jointly organized by the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies and by the Working Party on Agricultural Standards - discussed the important issue of "private standards" and its implications for SMEs and developing country exporters, in a joint meeting held in Geneva. This reflects their increasing importance, not only for food and food products, but also for a number of other products including textiles, clothing and footwear:

Provisional agenda
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/4
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Background document on private standards
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/4/Add.1
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Background document on private standards - Corrigendum
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/4/Add.1/Corr.1
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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.

 

Please note that this is a consolidated report of 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. The report of the panel session on Private Standards starts on page 7

Report of the Session
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/18
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