United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l'Europe (CEE-ONU)
Comisión Económica de las Naciones Unidas para Europa (CEPE)
Evropejskaja Ekonomiceskaja Komissija OON (EEK)
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URL: http://www.unece.org/
Events: https://unece.org/info/events/unece-meetings-and-events
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1947-03-28
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Promote pan-European economic integration by bringing together 56 countries located in the European Union, non-EU, the Caucasus and Central Asia, as well as North America, Turkey and Israel; encourage dialogue and cooperation among members on economic and sectoral issues; provide analysis, policy advice and assistance to governments; give focus to UN global mandates in the economic field, in cooperation with other global players and key stakeholders, notably the business community; set out norms, standards and conventions to facilitate international cooperation within and outside the region.
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An important feature of activities is cooperation with other UN bodies, with the specialized agencies and with other intergovernmental organizations and their secretariats.
United Nations bodies:
- E-XE2639 - International Trade Centre (ITC);
- E-XE4161 - UNEP;
- E-XE3381 - UNCTAD;
- E-XE3382 - UNDP;
- F-XF3380 - UNICEF;
- E-XE6309 - United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL);
- H-XE3104 - United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD);
- E-XE4174 - United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA);
- E-XE4175 - United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC);
- E-XE4177 - United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP);
- E-XE4178 - United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA);
- E-XJ0813 - United Nations Group on the Information Society (UNGIS);
- E-XE6809 - United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat);
- E-XE3387 - United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR);
- E-XE7552 - United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV);
- F-XF2488 - United Nations University (UNU).
Specialized Agencies:
- B-XB0971 - FAO;
- B-XB2183 - ILO;
- F-XF1393 - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD);
- B-XB1505 - International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO);
- F-XF1721 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD);
- B-XB1117 - International Maritime Organization (IMO);
- F-XF2266 - International Monetary Fund (IMF);
- B-XB2622 - International Telecommunication Union (ITU);
- B-XB0100 - International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO);
- B-XB3383 - UNESCO;
- B-XE3386 - UNIDO;
- F-XF5606 - United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA);
- B-XB3548 - WHO;
- B-XB3556 - World Meteorological Organization (WMO);
- B-XF2527 - World Trade Organization (WTO) (Observer status).
Working Party on Land Administration is observer to: E-XM2301 - Permanent Committee on Cadastre in the European Union (PCC).
Signatory to:
- T-XT7592 - Agreement on the Unification of Requirements with Regard to the Formulation and Filing of Patent Applications;
- T-XT8808 - Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution Concerning the Control of Nitrogen Oxides Emissions or Their Transboundary Fluxes (1988 NOx protocol).
Transport agreements concluded under UNECE auspices and not mentioned elsewhere in this text:
- T-XT4934 - Convention on Road Traffic, 1949;
- T-XT4946 - Protocol on Road Signs and Signals;
- T-XT5013 - Declaration on the Construction of Main International Traffic Arteries;
- T-XT5015 - European Agreement on the Application of Article 23 of the 1949 Convention on Road Traffic;
- T-XT5025 - European Agreement Supplementing the 1949 Convention on Road Traffic and the 1949 Protocol on Road Signs and Signals;
- T-XT5201 - International Convention to Facilitate the Crossing of Frontiers for Goods Carried by Rail;
- T-XT5202 - International Convention to Facilitate the Crossing of Frontiers for Passengers and Baggage Carried by Rail;
- T-XT5415 - Additional Protocol to the Convention Concerning Customs Facilities for Touring, Relating to the Importation of Tourist Publicity Documents and Material;
- T-XT5416 - Convention Concerning Customs Facilities for Touring;
- T-XT5414 - Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles;
- T-XT5405 - General Agreement on Economic Regulations for International Road Transport;
- T-XT5609 - Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR);
- T-XT5627 - Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles Engaged in International Goods Transport;
- T-XT5628 - Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles Engaged in International Passenger Transport;
- T-XT5608 - Convention on the Taxation of Road Vehicles for Private Use in International Traffic;
- T-XT5605 - Customs Convention on Containers, 1956;
- T-XT5607 - Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Commercial Road Vehicles;
- T-XT5606 - Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation for Private Use of Aircraft and Pleasure Boats;
- T-XT5719 - European Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR);
- T-XT5732 - European Agreement on Road Markings;
- T-XT5805 - Agreement concerning the Adoption of Harmonized Technical United Nations Regulations for Wheeled Vehicles, Equipment and Parts which can be Fitted and/or be Used on Wheeled Vehicles and the Conditions for Reciprocal Recognition of Approvals Granted on the Basis of these United Nations Regulations;
- T-XT5802 - Customs Convention Concerning Spare Parts Used for Repairing EUROP Wagons;
- T-XT5901 - Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets, 1959 (TIR Convention);
- T-XT6005 - Convention Relating to the Unification of Certain Rules Concerning Collisions in Inland Navigation;
- T-XT6022 - European Convention on Customs Treatment of Pallets Used in International Transport;
- T-XT6503 - Convention on the Registration of Inland Navigation Vessels;
- T-XT6605 - Convention on the Measurement of Inland Navigation Vessels;
- T-XT6812 - Convention on Road Signs and Signals;
- T-XT6811 - Convention on Road Traffic, 1968;
- T-XT7008 - European Agreement Concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles Engaged in International Road Transport, 1970 (AETR);
- T-XT7115 - European Agreement Supplementing the Convention on Road Signs and Signals;
- T-XT7114 - European Agreement Supplementing the Convention on Road Traffic;
- T-XT7240 - Customs Convention on Containers, 1972;
- T-XT7322 - Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Passengers and Luggage by Road (CVR);
- T-XT7323 - Convention Relating to the Limitation of the Liability of Owners of Inland Navigation Vessels (CLN);
- T-XT7321 - Protocol on Road Markings;
- T-XT7538 - Agreement on Minimum Requirements for the Issue and Validity of Driving Permits (APC);
- T-XT7620 - Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Passengers and Luggage by Inland Waterway (CVN);
- T-XT7888 - Protocol to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR);
- T-XT7863 - Protocol to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Passengers and Luggage by Inland Waterways (CVN);
- T-XT7894 - Protocol to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Passengers and Luggage by Road (CVR);
- T-XT7805 - Protocol to the Convention Relating to the Limitation of Liability of Owners of Inland Navigation Vessels;
- T-XT8507 - European Agreement on Main International Railway Lines (AGC);
- T-XT9103 - European Agreement on Important International Combined Transport Lines and Related Installations (AGTC);
- T-XT9366 - Protocol Amending Article 1-a, Article 14-1 and Article 14-3b of the European Agreement of 30 September 1957 Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road;
- T-XT9766 - Agreement Concerning the Adoption of Uniform Conditions for Periodical Technical Inspections of Wheeled Vehicles and the Reciprocal Recognition of Such Inspections;
- T-XT9801 - Agreement Concerning the Establishing of Global Technical Regulations for Wheeled Vehicles, Equipment and Parts Which Can be Fitted And/or be Used on Wheeled Vehicles.
- Member of: UN-Water
- Partner of: United Nations Public Administration Network (UNPAN)
- Cooperates with: Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)
- Cooperates with: Asian and Pacific Development Centre (APDC)
- Cooperates with: Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission - Helsinki Commission (HELCOM)
- Cooperates with: Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
- Cooperates with: Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine (CCNR)
- Cooperates with: Central European Initiative (CEI)
- Cooperates with: Centralnoe Dispetcherskoe Upravlenie Obedinennyh Energeticheskih Sistem (CDU OES)
- Cooperates with: Commission du Danube (CD)
- Cooperates with: Committee on Forest Development in the Tropics
- Cooperates with: Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
- Cooperates with: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Cooperates with: Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
- Cooperates with: Council of Europe (CE)
- Cooperates with: European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
- Cooperates with: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
- Cooperates with: European Commission (EC)
- Cooperates with: European Community
- Cooperates with: European Environment Agency (EEA)
- Cooperates with: European Forestry Commission (EFC)
- Cooperates with: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound)
- Cooperates with: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- Cooperates with: European Population Committee (CAHP)
- Cooperates with: European Union (EU)
- Cooperates with: FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (FAO/REU)
- Cooperates with: Global Resource Information Database (GRID)
- Cooperates with: Guidance Committee for Road Safety in the Nordic Countries
- Cooperates with: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
- Cooperates with: Inter-Governmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum and Refugees (IGC)
- Cooperates with: Intergovernmental Group on Grains
- Cooperates with: Intergovernmental Group on Meat and Dairy Products
- Cooperates with: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
- Cooperates with: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Cooperates with: International Center for Promotion of Enterprises (ICPE)
- Cooperates with: International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
- Cooperates with: International Energy Agency (IEA)
- Cooperates with: International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT)
- Cooperates with: International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR)
- Cooperates with: International Joint Commission (IJC)
- Cooperates with: International Organization of Legal Metrology
- Cooperates with: International Rubber Study Group (IRSG)
- Cooperates with: International Transport Forum (ITF)
- Cooperates with: Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS-Stat)
- Cooperates with: Islamic University of Technology (IUT)
- Cooperates with: Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP)
- Cooperates with: NAFTA Secretariat
- Cooperates with: Nordic Council (NC)
- Cooperates with: Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM)
- Cooperates with: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Cooperates with: Organisation for Cooperation between Railways (OSJD)
- Cooperates with: Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
- Cooperates with: Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF)
- Cooperates with: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
- Cooperates with: Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC)
- Cooperates with: OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR Commission)
- Cooperates with: Plan Bleu pour l'environnement et le développement en Méditerranée (Plan Bleu)
- Cooperates with: Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe (REC)
- Cooperates with: Secretariat of the Basel Convention (SBC)
- Cooperates with: Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat)
- Cooperates with: Trade Electronic Data Interchange System (TEDIS)
- Cooperates with: UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
- Cooperates with: UNEP Global Resources Information Database
- Cooperates with: United Nations Regional Commissions New York Office (RCNYO)
- Cooperates with: WHO European Centre for Environment and Health (ECEH)
- Cooperates with: WHO Regional Office for Europe
- Cooperates with: World Customs Organization (WCO)
- Cooperates with: UN Tourism
- Cooperates with: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)
- Instrumental in setting up: International E-Road Network
- Instrumental in setting up: Trans-European North-South Motorway Project (TEM)
- Links with: International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO)
- Links with: OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
- Links with: OECD Development Centre
- Links with: Pan-European Ecological Network (PEEN)
Relations with Non-Governmental Organizations
Nongovernmental organizations in consultative status with ECOSOC which participate in the work of ECE:
- B-XB2636 - Alliance internationale de tourisme (AIT);
- E-XE1703 - Bureau international des containers et du transport intermodal (BIC);
- E-XD7840 - International Motor Vehicle Inspection Committee (CITA);
- D-XD0615 - Conseil européen de l'industrie chimique (CEFIC);
- B-XC1916 - Fédération internationale des associations de transitaires et assimilés (FIATA);
- B-XB1386 - Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA);
- B-XB2402 - Fédération internationale des professions immobilières (FIABCI);
- B-XB2037 - Graduate Women International (GWI);
- F-XF4392 - Greenpeace International;
- B-XB1149 - International Air Transport Association (IATA);
- B-XB2765 - International Association of Public Transport;
- B-XC1389 - International Baccalaureate (IB);
- B-XB1396 - International Bar Association (IBA);
- B-XB1490 - International Chamber of Commerce (ICC);
- C-XC1492 - International Chamber of Shipping (ICS);
- B-XB4097 - International Council of Environmental Law (ICEL);
- C-XB1746 - International Council of Jewish Women (ICJW);
- B-XB1723 - International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB);
- B-XB1763 - International Council of Women (ICW);
- C-XC1800 - International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC);
- B-XB1826 - International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP);
- C-XC1829 - International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE);
- C-XD1851 - International Federation of Robotics (IFR);
- C-XC2074 - International Gas Union (IGU);
- D-XD5058 - International Motorcycle Manufacturers Association (IMMA);
- C-XD1109 - International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers;
- B-XB2314 - International Organization for Standardization (ISO);
- B-XB2418 - International Road Federation (IRF Global);
- B-XB2420 - International Road Transport Union (IRU);
- A-XA2590 - International Statistical Institute (ISI);
- A-XM2085 - International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC);
- B-XB2644 - International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF);
- C-XD2700 - International Union of Building Centres;
- A-XA2654 - International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN);
- B-XB2721 - International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO);
- C-XD2783 - International Union of Tenants (IUT);
- D-XD0804 - Liquid Gas Europe;
- National Council of German Women's Organizations;
- B-XB3245 - Soroptimist International (SI);
- B-XB2689 - Union internationale des architectes (UIA);
- F-XF1825 - World Coal Association (WCA);
- B-XB3510 - World Energy Council (WEC);
- A-XA3537 - World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU);
- E-XE3539 - World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA);
- F-XF1964 - World LPG Association (WLPGA);
- C-XC2307 - World Mining Congress (WMC);
- B-XC3112 - World Road Association (PIARC).
Other non-governmental organizations which participate in the work of ECE:
- D-XD2884 - Asociación Latinoamericana del Acero (Alacero);
- D-XD0052 - Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe (Plastics Europe);
- B-XB1722 - BirdLife International;
- B-XM1784 - Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI);
- D-XD0631 - Comité européen de normalisation (CEN);
- C-XC2394 - Comité international des transports ferroviaires (CIT);
- D-XD0651 - Conseil européen de l'industrie des peintures, des encres d'imprimerie et des couleurs d'art (CEPE);
- D-XN4059 - Council of Bureaux (CoB);
- C-XC2090 - CropLife International;
- F-XF1443 - Dangerous Goods Advisory Council (DGAC);
- H-XB4529 - Data for Development International Association (DFD);
- D-XD3621 - Eurogas;
- D-XD2920 - European Association of Automotive Suppliers (CLEPA);
- D-XD0629 - European Association of Manufacturing Technologies (CECIMO);
- D-XD1198 - Steel for Packaging Europe (SfPE);
- D-XD0634 - European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC);
- D-XD1910 - European Construction Industry Federation;
- European East-West Conferences on Materials and Processes (MatTech);
- E-XD5414 - European Environmental Bureau (EEB);
- D-XD0751 - European Federation of Building Societies (EFBS);
- D-XD0725 - European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE);
- D-XD2603 - European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics (EFOMP);
- D-XD3126 - European Industrial Gases Association (EIGA);
- E-XE4846 - European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC);
- F-XF2255 - European Network for Housing Research (ENHR);
- D-XD5990 - European Potato Trade Association (EUROPATAT);
- H-XD2252 - European Regional Industrial Development Organization (ERIDO);
- U-XF1712 - European Research Foundation and Institute for Industrial Location and Regional Development (ERFI);
- D-XD0515 - European Steel Association (EUROFER);
- D-XD9892 - European Tyre and Rim Technical Organisation (ETRTO);
- U-XF1242 - EUROTER - Tourism in Rural Europe;
- D-XD0934 - Fédération Européenne des Aérosols (FEA);
- F-XF0146 - GLOBE International;
- C-XC8492 - GS1;
- U-XD1514 - Intergas Marketing;
- D-XD6997 - International Association of Classification Societies (IACS);
- H-XB4223 - International Association of Medicine and Biology of the Environment (IAMBE);
- U-XJ2614 - International Centre for Trade and Statistical Overview;
- U-XJ8050 - International Committee for Economic Reform and Cooperation, Kiev (ICERC);
- S-XF1702 - International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria (ICTMM);
- H-XE0654 - International Environmental Bureau (IEB);
- B-XC1828 - International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP);
- C-XD1973 - International Federation of Pedestrians (IFP);
- C-XC3907 - International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM);
- B-XB2907 - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies;
- E-XE1501 - International Institute on Ageing, United Nations - Malta (INIA);
- D-XC4518 - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA);
- C-XC2170 - International Institute of Welding (IIW);
- B-XB2772 - International Union of Railways (UIC);
- C-XC7282 - International Urban Development Association (INTA);
- E-XE3083 - MARCOGAZ - Technical Association of the European Gas Industry;
- C-XD3580 - NGV Global;
- D-XD4460 - Oil Companies' European Association for Environment, Health and Safety in Refining and Distribution (CONCAWE);
- B-XB2784 - Réunion internationale des laboratoires d'essais et de recherches sur les matériaux et les constructions (RILEM);
- F-XF6413 - Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT);
- D-XD3977 - South East Asia Iron and Steel Institute (SEAISI);
- E-XE3018 - Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI);
- D-XD3330 - Transfrigoroute International (TI);
- A-XA3353 - Union internationale des associations et organismes scientifiques et techniques (UATI);
- F-XF5055 - International Union for Combined Road - Rail Transport (UIRR);
- D-XD2758 - International Union of Wagon Keepers;
- B-XB3469 - World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS);
- B-XB3950 - World Association of Industrial and Technological Research Organizations (WAITRO);
- E-XE1495 - World Resources Institute (WRI);
- F-XF3608 - World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Serves as secretariat for: U-XF6104 - Population Information Network for Europe (POPIN-Europe).
- Member of: One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership (UN CC:Learn)
- Memorandum of Understanding with: Association Européenne des Concessionnaires d'Autoroutes et d'Ouvrages à Péage (ASECAP)
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