Bog'liq Transport for sustainable development in the ECE region
The Role of UNECE in improving Transport Security Regulatory and technical platform The UNECE is a focal point for regulatory and technical intergovernmental agreements in
transport facilitation for road, rail and inland waterways transport. The UNECE administers
several international and global legal instruments, including the TIR Convention (1975) and
the Harmonization Convention (1982). Within the last decade a large number of initiatives
have been started to improve and address the security issues. From the prospective of
international transport and global supply chains, the major development was the adoption
in 2005 of The Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade (SAFE) by the
World Customs Organization (WCO). UNECE and its Inland Transport Committee (ITC) have
given careful consideration to transport security. This work was first conducted in the
framework of various Working Parties which addressed the underlying issues within their
field of competence.
Multidisciplinary Group of Experts on Transport Security To ensure a comprehensive inter‐sectoral approach to this topic, ITC established a
Multidisciplinary Group of Experts on Inland Transport Security which worked from 2007 to
2009 and developed a final report consisting of private sector’s standards, industry
initiatives, guidelines and best practices in the field of inland transport security. The Expert
Group consisted of experts from UNECE member States as well as relevant international
governmental and non‐governmental organization. The work showed that internationally
there is a lack of organizational work for the improvement of passenger safety in especially
urban transport. Secondly, inland transport systems compared to ports and airports are
relatively unprotected due to their open area coverage. So that inland transport often is the
weakest link in supply chain security. As an example the working group mentions that
containers are well protected at ports but as soon as they leave the ports by inland
transport modes the security disappears. Moreover there the group of experts concluded
that there is a lack of international body for security in inland transport modes that is
comparable to IMO (Maritime Transport Security) and ICAO (Air Transport Security).
Therefore the group of experts emphasized the importance of a strengthening of the UNECE
work on inland transport.