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Agenda item 2 : Matters arising since the fifteenth session

Agenda item 2 : Matters arising since the fifteenth session. Presented by the UNECE secretariat for information. Sixty-fourth session of UNECE March 2011. Five Year Review will take place in 2011-2012 (following UNECE reform in 2005)

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Agenda item 2 : Matters arising since the fifteenth session

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  1. Agenda item 2 : Matters arising since the fifteenth session Presented by the UNECE secretariat for information

  2. Sixty-fourth session of UNECE March 2011 • Five Year Review will take place in 2011-2012 (following UNECE reform in 2005) • UN/CEFACT Review will be within the frame of the review by the Committee on Trade of its three Subsidiary Bodies (UN/CEFACT, WP.6 Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization and WP.7 Agricultural Standards) • Focus will be on transparency, delivery, coherence and programme of work based on member States priorities and needs,

  3. Committee on Trade session 14-15 June 2011 … • Relevant CT decisions: • took note of revision of UN/CEFACT's structure, mandate, terms of reference and procedures (document ECE/TRADE/C/2009/15/Rev.2), agreed to consider it intersessionally after receiving the assessment of advantages and disadvantages of proposed restructuring referred to in para. 29 of 2010 Plenary Report (ECE/TRADE/C/CEFACT/2010/25) • requested secretariat to respond directly to enquiries from member States to the greatest extent possible

  4. EXCOM Meeting December 2010 • It noted with satisfaction the progress made to date (in implementing the EXCOM Recommendations regarding UN/CEFACT) and looked forward to further work being undertaken to complete the tasks. • It recognized the positive work in capacity building and encouraging the participation of transition economies in the work of UN/CEFACT and requested that this be continued and strengthened.

  5. EXCOM Meeting December 2010 • It also acknowledged the greater cooperation between UN/CEFACT and the secretariat. • One delegation underlined the need to ensure that the work of UN/CEFACT corresponds to priorities of member States • and another delegation stressed the importance of ensuring that the ongoing restructuring of UN/CEFACT be in line with the aims and tasks as set out by the recommendations of EXCOM for UN/CEFACT.

  6. EXCOM Meeting December 2010 • The EXCOM requested UN/CEFACT and the secretariat to report back on the outcome of the UN/CEFACT Plenary to take place in July 2011 with respect to the restructuring of UN/CEFACT and on further actions to implement the EXCOM recommendations. • Next EXCOM meeting: September 2011

  7. Capacity-building/enhancing involvement of countries in transition • This will be delivered under Item 7 – Other Business

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