Theme 4: Conclusions and recommendations

Milena Roudna, Czech Republic

Firstly, thank to Secretariat for the background document  - Summary of Information on Standards and Standard-setting Bodies, serving as a good basis for discussion (even not fully complex and in full details, as discussion shows – but it was not surely intension).
The ongoing Forum has revealed usefulness of such discussion and in this case a complexity of the problem. Therefore, cooperation and coordination of procedures with other international organizations and bodies are necessary to reach unified regulation in the given sphere and to avoid duplication of efforts and complications with not coordinated procedures in relation to other organizations/conventions. This is very difficult and complex task which would require deep analysis and involvement of real experts (maybe in the form of an Ad-hoc Working Group).
Possibility for the Secretariat representatives to participate in the meetings of  corresponding international organizations could not only extend cooperation, but maybe even enable access to restrictively available information and data.
Even if international regulations would exist, they need to be completed by regulations at national level /Union/ Community level, especially if they are not mandatory/ legally binding (as so far experience also within other conventions has shown).