Economic Commission for Europe

The aims of the subject “United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)” are the following:

1. To understand the purposes, functions, and institutions of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
2. To analyse its role in cooperation, economic integration, and transport
3. To know how to use the socio-economic information provided by the UNECE

Description: Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

In 1947, the ECOSOC (United Nations) created the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) with the objective of promoting the pan-European Economy and Foreign Trade integration.

1. The Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) consists of fifty-six countries and is one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations (*)
2. The Committee on International Trade of the Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) works on developing closer economic relationships among the member economies
3. The Economic Commission for Europe region covers 47 million square kilometres and has the 20% of the world's population

Member States of the Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE): Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uzbekistan.

(*) Others regional commissions of the United Nations are the:

1. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
2. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
3. Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
4. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)

The Economic Commission for Europe is an Strategic partners of the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF)

The Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) belongs to the European Economic Area of the Western Civilisation.

1. Combined Transport and the Economic Commission for Europe
2. Trade Facilitation - WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA)
3. Revised Kyoto Convention (RKC)

The International Bureau of Containers and Intermodal Transport (BIC) is an observer member at the Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Trans-European Transport Network Corridors

1. Atlantic Transport Corridor
2. Baltic-Adriatic Transport Corridor
3. North Sea-Baltic Transport Corridor
4. North Sea-Mediterranean Transport Corridor
5. Mediterranean Transport Corridor
6. Eastern Europe-Eastern Mediterranean Transport Corridor
7. Scandinavian-Mediterranean Transport Corridor
8. Rhine-Alpine Transport Corridor
9. Rhine-Danube Transport Corridor
10. Strasbourg-Danube Transport Corridor
11. Pan-European Corridor II
12. Pan-European Corridor IX
13. Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia (TRACECA)
14. Afghanistan-Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey Transport Corridor (Lapis Lazuli)
15. Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul Rail and Road Corridor (ITI-ECO)
16. Trans-Caspian Trade and Transit Corridor (Central Corridor)