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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
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Item 1 - Adoption of the agenda

Annotated provisional agenda
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/1
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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

Provisional agenda
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/2 (Revised)
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The General Market Surveillance Procedure
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/2/Add.1
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Report on the Market Surveillance Model Initiative
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/13
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PRESENTATIONS

• I. Hendrikx, General Market Surveillance procedure

I. Hendrikx, New Market Surveillance systems

Sirma Karapeeva/Peter Morfee, Regulatory Networking: A New Zealand perspective

Mac Curtain, ISO and conformity assessment

Dirk H.Meijer, Enforcement and Product Safety

Guido De Jongh, Market surveillance and Standards

Nikola Tuneski, Sampling considerations within Market Surveillance actions

Valentin Nikonov; Risk Management Initiative

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

Provisional agenda
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/3
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Questionnaire on Explosive Environments Equipments 
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/3/Add.1
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Report on the second meeting of the SIEEE (Paris, September 2008)
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/3/Add.2
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Progress report on SIEEE
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/8
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(c) Panel session 3 - Private Standards

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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PRESENTATIONS

Müge Dolun, Private Standards and Market Access: A Mapping Exercise in the Textiles and Apparel Sector

Ivar Foss, EU market access requirements

Rachel Ntoyai, Kenya’s horticulture sub-sector: A view of voluntary standards from Africa

Ulrich Hoffmann, Voluntary Environmental Standards for Global Markets: Pro-active Role of Governments

Item 5 - Standardization and regulatory practice

(a) Review of developments

PRESENTATIONS

Rita L’Abbate, The New Legislative Framework

(b) Revision of UNECE recommendations

UNECE Recommendations on Standardization Policies
ECE/TRADE/378
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Approved Recommendation "M"
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2007/10/Rev.1
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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
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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
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Progress report on the sectoral initiative on Telecom
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/9
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Progress report on the sectoral initiative on Earth-Moving Machinery Initiative
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/10
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Progress Report on the Sectoral Initiative on Earth-Moving Machinery
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/10/Add.1
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PRESENTATIONS

Dan Roley, International Model for Technical Harmonization

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

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
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Information from the CIS on Market Surveillance
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/12
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(b) Updates Market Surveillance Initiative

(Draft) Terms of Reference of the Market Surveillance Model Initiative
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/13
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(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
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PRESENTATIONS

Willem Kool, OIML Update

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
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Programme of Work for 2009-2010 and Table of Priorities
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/14/Rev.1
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Evaluation of the 17th session of the Working Party and its International Seminar
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/15
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Item 11 - Capacity-building

Report on "Aid for Trade in Trade-related Standards"
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2008/16
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Item 12 - Other business

Item 13 - Adoption of the report

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