UNECE - Joint Expert Group on Water and Industrial Accidents

UNECE - Joint Expert Group on Water and Industrial Accidents

Description

The Joint Expert Group of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe has been charged with tasks that include:

• Supporting the Working Group on Civil Liability in its drafting of the Protocol on Civil Liability
• Drafting guidelines for establishing model cross-border contingency plans
• Reviewing the location criterion related to the water path contained in the guidelines to facilitate the identification of hazardous activities for the purposes of the Industrial Accidents Convention
• Developing an inventory of existing safety guidelines and good practices for the prevention of accidental transboundary water pollution
• Promoting international response exercises, including an international seminar on cooperation to prevent and respond to transboundary effects of industrial accidents (Ketrzyn, Poland, 13-15 June 2002)
• Developing safety guidelines for (off-site) pipelines -- which resulted in adopted guidelines and included a workshop on the prevention of water pollution due to pipeline accidents (Berlin, 2005) and a workshop on the prevention of accidents of gas transmission pipelines (The Hague, Netherlands, 2006)
• Drawing up guidelines and good practices for tailing dams -- which resulted in adopted guidelines and included a workshop on the safety of tailing management facilities (Yerevan, 2007)
• Facilitating the exchange of information on the functioning of alarm and notification systems
• Developing safety guidelines and good practices for crisis management on transboundary waters

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United Nations System

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