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UNECE Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies

UNECE Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies. Lorenza Jachia TF8 19 March 2013. What I will cover: 1) What is the UNECE WP . 6 2) Partnership btw TF8 and WP. 6 3) Future joint WP.6-TF8 actvities. 1) What is the UNECE WP. 6.

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UNECE Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies

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  1. UNECE Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation andStandardization Policies • Lorenza Jachia • TF8 • 19 March 2013

  2. What I will cover:1) What is the UNECE WP. 62) Partnership btw TF8 and WP. 6 3) Future joint WP.6-TF8 actvities

  3. 1) What is the UNECE WP. 6

  4. UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

  5. Commission for …EUROPE? Any UNmember country representativecanparticipate on a fullyequal footing

  6. What we are: • Intergovernmental body • Participation by: authorities, regional & int’l org, standards-setting bodies, business, certification bodies, test houses, civil society • From all UN Member States • 1970 – 2010: 40+ years Our mandate: • Forum for dialogue on:  Standardization  Technical regulations  Conformity assessment  Accreditation  Metrology  Market surveillance Risk management Our activities • Develop and share best practice and tools for regulatory coop • Advice and capacity-building • Develop and maintain a set of recommendations • Implement a set of initiatives on specific industrial sectors UNECE WP. 6

  7. 2) Partnership btw TF8 and WP. 6

  8. Better and convergentregulations

  9. Recommendation L

  10. Recommendation L(continued) • In sectors of high concern • Governments define “common regulatory objectives” i.e. they define legitimate government concerns (public health, safety, protection of the environment, interoperability, etc)‏ • And agree on how to reach them • By reference to international standards • Specifying: • how compliance is assessed • which conformity assessment bodies are recognized as competent, • what competence criteria are to be fulfilled • other flanking issues

  11. Recommendation L • A set of tools • Countries can use to harmonize their technical regulations and regulatory systems in any sector at a regional or global level • It has also been used to harmonize regulations in all sectors between two countries or within a customs union • Builds on the principles of the WTO TBT Agreement but goes further

  12. Next steps • National contact points – build a group • Further develop the CROs – work on coordination of market surveillance activities • Promotion activities in cooperation with IECEx • 2012 IECEx International Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on 20-21 March 2012 • Petroleum Chemical Industry Committee for Europe (PCIC Europe) Prague on 19-21 June 2012 • Calgary 2012 • Fortaleza 2013

  13. PRODUCTLIFE-CYCLE Product design Production Distribution Conformityassessment +accredit+ metrology Standardiz. policies/techicalregulations Market surveillance REGULATORY ACTIVITY UNECE WP 6 works on horizontal issues

  14. Risk Management in RegulatoryFrameworks • Crisis Management in RegulatoryFrameworks • Good practices in Market Surveillance Policies

  15. Glossary of Market Surveillance Terms

  16. Contact database of • MSAs

  17. Developing and implementing systems of regulations thatprotectfromrisk effectively and efficiently

  18. 3) Next annual session and joint UNECE-TF8 Conference(Geneva 14-20 November 2013)

  19. Highlights • Conference on Regulatory Convergence(14-15 November) • Panel session on «Standards and Regulations»: revision of recommendation L • Panel discussion on education for standards

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