UNECE Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies Lorenza Jachia TF8 19 March 2013

1) What is the UNECE WP. 6 2) Partnership btw TF8 and WP. 6 3) Future joint WP.6-TF8 actvities 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

UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Commission for … EUROPE? Any UN member country representative can participate on a fully equal footing

UNECE WP. 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

2) Partnership btw TF8 and WP. 6

Better and convergent regulations

Recommendation L

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

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

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 March 2012 – Petroleum Chemical Industry Committee for Europe (PCIC Europe) Prague on June 2012 – Calgary 2012 – Fortaleza 2013

PRODUCT LIFE-CYCLE REGULATORY ACTIVITY Conformity assessment +accredit + metrology Product design Standardiz. policies/techical regulations Distribution Market surveillance Production UNECE WP 6 works on horizontal issues

Risk Management in Regulatory Frameworks Crisis Management in Regulatory Frameworks Good practices in Market Surveillance Policies

Glossary of Market Surveillance Terms Glossary of Market Surveillance Terms

Contact database of MSAs

Developing and implementing systems of regulations that protect from risk effectively and efficiently

3) Next annual session and joint UNECE-TF8 Conference (Geneva November 2013)

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