UNECE legal instruments of significance in managing pandemics and cross-border emergencies

At its eighty-second annual session (Geneva, 25–28 February 2020), the Inland Transport Committee (ITC) requested the secretariat, in close cooperation with the Bureau, with the support of interested Governments and key stakeholders to conduct necessary research on provisions in existing frameworks and new needed areas of work to promote cooperation between transport authorities in the field of counteracting the effects of emergency situations of cross-country nature, including epidemics and pandemics, and present this information to the Working Party on Transport Trends and Economics (WP.5) for consideration of further steps and for inclusion to its programme of work.

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