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Sectoral Initiative Pipeline Safety (SIPS)WORKING PARTY ON REGULATORY COOPERATION AND

STANDARDIZATION POLICIES WP.6, Trade PROGRAMME, ECE UN

Progress report by Chairman Dr. Roman Samsonov

25th working session, Geneva, 2-3 of December 2015

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MOSCOW – ISO and CEN• Russian Federation continuously extends its participation in

international standards collaboration• In September 2011 the 31st Plenary meeting of ISO/TC67

“Materials, equipment and offshore structures for oil and gas industry” was held in Moscow hosted by Gazprom. The major outcome of the meeting was a new subcommittee. Subcommittee SC8 Arctic Operations was proposed by Russian delegation and agreed by the committee members (resolution N2011/34).

• ISO/TC67/SC8 managed by Russian chairman and secretary currently has 6 ISO standards in its work programme. First standards will be published next year.

• In February 2014 the 22nd Plenary meeting of CEN/TC 12 “Materials, equipment and offshore structures for petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries“ was held in Moscow hosted by Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

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ISO/TC67/SC2 meeting in Atyrau, Kazakhstan

• In April 2015 35th annual Plenary meeting of ISO/TC67/SC2 “Pipeline Transportation Systems” was held in Atyrau (Kazakhstan) hosted by North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC) – joint venture of major international oil&gas operators (Shell, ExxonMobil, Total, Eni, CNPC and KazMunaiGaz)

• SC2 chairman kindly invited UNECE Sectoral Initiatve SIPS chairman to the meeting to provide a brief overview of the SIPS current status

• SIPS chairman report was attracted a lot of interest of SC members what was reflected in a resolution (res. N542)

• SIPS and ISO/TC67/SC2 increased the level of the partnership in 2015. SC2 members were asked by its chairman to provide their input to the updated SIPS questionnaire

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What the mechanism to make survey?Recommendation L Article 1General Institutional Framework • 1.1 The process of registering Common Regulatory Objectives (CROs) and interpreting the provisions of the “International Model” shall be

the task of the UNECE Working Party on Technical Harmonization and Standardization Policies (Working Party 6- WP.6) which shall ensure coordination of the work on requests for technical harmonization received by the UNECE secretariat. If deemed appropriate, Working Party 6 could set up groups of experts to monitor and implement such work in practice.

• Article 2Call for Participation

• 2.1 Country/Countries (at least three wishing to harmonize their technical regulations according to the “International Model” and to invite other countries to join such a process) shall make a “Call for Participation” through the UNECE secretariat to all United Nations Member States. The Call should contain the necessary information for formulating a CRO (cf. annex B). Countries wishing to join the work under such a Call should respond to the secretariat within three months (from the date of the transmission of the Call by UNECE secretariat), stating their interest to participate in the work. The countries that expressed an interest in joining the work can start the technical harmonization process three months after the date of transmission of the Call.

• 2.2 Based on responses to the Call, an open-ended task force composed of interested countries shall be set up with the purpose to jointly develop CROs regarding the safety, health, environmental protection and other legitimate concerns of governments regarding the products or group of products in question.

• 2.3 These open-ended task forces should work in a transparent way and participation in them shall be open at any moment to any other United Nations Member State that expresses the wish to join the work. The task forces will agree on their own working procedures. The task forces should inform the UNECE secretariat about their work which will be made publicly available by appropriate means (for example, via the internet).

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How the new questions looks? Difference.

QUESTIONNAIRE TO REGULATORS OF ECE UN COUNTRIES (2015)

1. The security of which pipeline systems concerns you to a greater extent?• Distribution• Regional• Transregional (trunk) lines• Interconnectors• Hab’s (include virtual)

* Noted by your level of importance, 5 - highest, 1 – lowest

Totally 10 questions like this first one

QUESTIONNAIRE TO REGULATORS (2009)

1. What national directives/laws, regulations set requirements to provision of safety of land and offshore oil and gas pipeline systems?

It was 16 questions like this. Only 5 countries from different continents made a proper answers:

BelorussiaCanadaBrasiliaKazakhstanTurkey

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Проект программы работ SIPS на 2015-20161 Прогресс отчет о проделанной работе инициативы на заседаниях за

2015 год Женева, Швейцария 1-3.12.2015

2 Распространение вопросов нового исследования среди стран участников Секретариат WP.6 1-3.2015

3 Сбор ответов и обсуждение с Секретариатом ЕЭК ООН программы работ в проведением мероприятий группы в рамках действующих инициатив РГ 6 ЕЭК ООН.

Дистанционно Январь-февраль 2016

4 Проведение первой встречи рабочей группы инициативы SIPS в Москве, приуроченной к конференции Целостность трубопроводов

Москва, Россия, РСПП 6-7 Апреля

5 Рассылка собранных ответов членам РГ 6 ЕЭК ООН для анализа и оценки ( при содействии секретариата РГ 6 ЕЭК ООН) а также сбор замечаний и предложений

Дистанционно Март-Апрель

6 Вторая встреча рабочей группы инициативы для обсуждения выводов и дополнительных вопросов для подготовки рекомендаций

Европа, необходимо определить

Сентябрь 2016

7 Распространение, сбор и анализ второго второго опросника инициативы секретариатами рабочих групп

Дистанционно Сентябрь-октябрь

8 Обработка информации и представление промежуточных результатов с проектов выводов в секретариат РГ 6 ЕЭК ООН

Дистанционно Ноябрь 2016

9 Подготовка годового отчета о работе группы и презентация проекта рекомендаций и результатов исследований РГ 6 ЕЭК ООН

Женева, Швейцария Ноябрь-Декабрь 2016

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Thank You for kind attention!

Contacts of Sectoral Initiative:Dr. Roman Samsonov – ChairmanE-mail: roman@samsonov.orgMobile: +79857636368Official web page:http://www.unece.org/trade/wp6/SectoralInitiatives/PipelineSafety/SIPS.html