Globally Harmonized System of Classification

(iii) Specifying harmonized system codes for all ODSozone depleting substances

These incentive measures should be harmonized throughout the United Nations system.

(iv) Implementation of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals

Amendments to the Globally Harmonized System of classification and labelling of chemicals (GHS)

Subcommittee of Experts on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals

Subcommittee of Experts on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals

There are difficulties in defining cleaner technologies and classifying them in the Harmonized System (HS).

B Work of the Committee regarding the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals

Gradually, its concepts and definitions became outdated as compared with the Harmonized System and the Central Product Classification.

Encouragement of the World Customs Organization to assign specific Harmonized System codes to the chemicals listed in Annex III

(c) Member States participating in the activities of the Sub Committee on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals as well as the European Commission, are actively preparing revisions of national or regional legislation applicable to chemicals for implementation of Globally Harmonized System

The new list contains about 600 primary and transformed commodities mainly derived from about 2,020 commodities in the Harmonized System.

(d) Encouragement of the World Customs Organization to assign specific Harmonized System codes to the chemicals listed in Annex III

Global Positioning System

Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals

Working with the World Customs Organization in assigning Harmonized System customs codes to the chemicals listed in Annex III (article 13)

Draft harmonized reporting guidelines

These programmes include the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), and the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS).

If such a category was too small for the Harmonized System, it was typically combined with the further processed forms of those products.

Harmonized guidelines on reporting to all treaty bodies should be finalized and implemented so that these bodies can function as a unified system.

(k) Note by the Secretary General on an application for membership in the Subcommittee of Experts on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals of the Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (E 2005 9 Add.9)

(c) Encourage countries to implement the new globally harmonized system for the classification and labelling of chemicals as soon as possible with a view to having the system fully operational by 2008

It has now been updated and brought into line with international classifications, especially the CPC, through a better and closer link with Harmonized System.

In addition, she noted that WCO at the thirty sixth session of its Harmonized System Committee had welcomed continued cooperation with the Rotterdam Convention.

Work of the Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals

(a) to circulate the amendments to the Globally Harmonized System to the Governments of Member States, the specialized agencies and other international organizations concerned

These innovative funding modalities could be combined for different organizations of the United Nations system in several alternative ways and harmonized with current modalities.

Global Earth Observation System of Systems

While the CPC bases its goods part on definitions of the Harmonized System, there is no such link or equivalent level of definition for the UNSPSC.

This Code is regularly updated in the light of the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, codified by the World Customs Organization

Both databases will continue to treat the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS) as a primary commodity classification for data collection and data processing purposes.

An aggregation of United Nations system development financing needs for country, regional and global activities could serve as the basis for a more harmonized dialogue with contributor countries, especially if the aggregation is clearly related to the United Nations development agenda, including the Millennium Development Goals.

Third, a global reserve system is needed.

The United States strongly supports a global warning system, conducted under the aegis of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).

The global financial system remains distorted and dangerous.

The global food system will always need firefighters.

(c) Development of a Global Time System (GTS)

It also participates in two major trade programmes designed to promote export oriented manufacturing the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States and the Generalized System of Preferences.

Global and regional cooperation frameworks. The seven thematic elements, discussed in paragraphs 3 to 10 above, can provide a basis for a simplified and harmonized approach by global and regional cooperation frameworks when addressing emerging and critical issues.

Any development of a regional warning system should be part of an integrated global system.

In addition, there were products that may have been of particular interest to agricultural statisticians and analysts but were not separately identifiable in the Harmonized System for other reasons.

The Secretary General has received an application from Zambia for full membership in the Subcommittee of Experts on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals.1

Work of the Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals during the biennium 2003 2004

While some organizations had adopted harmonized procedures and common tools, they tended to retain their own administrative requirements, creating additional bureaucratic burdens for Governments and the United Nations system.