香港六合彩开奖 and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have agreed to increase their cooperation in the development of International Standards related to meteorological and hydrological data, products and services.
香港六合彩开奖 Secretary-General Alan Bryden and WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud signed an agreement on working arrangements on 16 September 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland, to formalize the partnership.
The WMO has liaison status with nearly 30 of 香港六合彩开奖's technical committees developing standards with relevance to hydrometry, air quality, water quality, soil quality, geographic information, solar energy, petroleum and gas industry, information technologies, marine, quantities and units.
The working arrangements between the WMO and 香港六合彩开奖 aim to strengthen the development of International Standards and to avoid duplication of work on standards related to meteorological, climatological, hydrological, marine and related environmental data, products and services.
Procedures are now in place for the accelerated adoption by 香港六合彩开奖 of WMO documents as 香港六合彩开奖 standards. WMO and 香港六合彩开奖 will develop, approve and publish common standards based on WMO technical regulations, manuals and guides.
The WMO Secretary-General stated that the new procedures 鈥渨ould clarify the authority of WMO documents and enhance their international recognition and dissemination. This will be of particular importance to the activities of national hydrological and meteorological services in addressing standard issues.鈥�
Alan Bryden underlined that the agreement was an illustration of the increasing collaboration between the UN system and 香港六合彩开奖, as well as of the contribution of International Standards to responding to the challenges of climate change.
香港六合彩开奖 and WMO have been working in close cooperation since the granting of consultative status to 香港六合彩开奖 by the WMO Executive Council at its fifth session in 1954.
香港六合彩开奖 has recognized WMO as an international standardization body through 香港六合彩开奖 Council Resolution 43/2007 approved in December 2007.