📅 02 April 2024
Geneva, Switzerland
A green transformation is urgently needed to address pressing challenges, including sustainable energy transition and deployment of low-carbon solutions, to fight climate change, and biodiversity loss, and reduce environmental pressures.
Digital technologies are opening up new possibilities for economic development, policy implementation, and the management of public services. They also offer the potential for improved management of natural resources and facilitate the shift towards a circular economy by filling information gaps, increasing efficiency, and making new forms of economic activity possible, including changes in production and consumption patterns.
Integrating digital capabilities in products can create a good deal of added value, but simultaneously can potentially present several challenges for customs control, for product control, and other regulatory processes. Products can potentially become more complex and accumulate technical regulations making them more difficult to process and control. In parallel, the expansion of e-commerce (sale of goods over the Internet) has reduced the size of consignments and increased their volume.
There is an explosion of small parcels being sent across borders instead of the traditional container full of identical products that were traded ten years ago and before. Regulatory agencies need to take a risk-based approach to manage these challenges.
Objective
This conference will consider the challenges faced by regulatory agencies about the digital, green transition, lay down the principles of risk management that could be applied to these, and brainstorm on further guidance that could eventually be useful from WP.6 in this area.