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Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
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The Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) - was established by the ECOSOC in 1947. It serves as a forum for pan-European economic cooperation and integration. It has 56 member states in the European Union, non-EU Western and Eastern Europe, South-East Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and North America.
ECE develops conventions, norms and standards to harmonize action and facilitating exchanges between member states.
Documentation
The individual ESCAP documents carry the following symbols:
E/ Economic and Social Council |
-/ECE Economic Commission for Europe |
-/acronym for type of document or year of publication |
Ex. E/ECE/965 Economic and Social Council, ECE, document no 965 |
Information about the structure and work of the Commission, full text documents and reports and news can be accessed from the official web page of the official web site of the Economic Commission for Europe.
Several regional economic surveys are published by ECE an posted at the official web site.
ECE submits annual reports in the documentary series Supplements to the Official Records of the Economic and Social Council. A complete collection of these supplements in print will be found in the UN Collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and in the libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
Recent supplements are posted as ECOSOC reports on the official web site of the Economic and Social Council.
ECE individual documents are given symbols. Documents before 1993 can be accessed through the UN Archives of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and through the libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
Databases and Indexes
Documents are published electronically from 1993- in the United Nations Document System - ODS.
References to documents with links to full texts for recent years can be retrieved through the UNBISnet - the online catalogue of the UN Libraries in New York and Geneva.