SERCOM-3 Decisions on Early Warning System Amendments Process
The SERCOM-3 meeting in Bali, Indonesia, outlined a process for amending technical regulations to include early warning systems. The decision involves targeting the 2025 World Meteorological Congress for approving mature WMO Technical Regulations amendments, coordinating follow-up work on the proposed draft, and broad consultations for recommendation approval.
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SERCOM-3 Third session of the Commission for Weather, Climate, Hydrological, Marine and Related Environmental Services and Applications Agenda item 4.1 Process for the amendments to the technical regulations to include early warning systems Bali, Indonesia 4-9 March 2024 Presented by: Will Lang
Document 4.1 - Draft Decision 4.1/1 (SERCOM-3) On Process for the amendments to the technical regulations to include early warning systems Justification: Resolution 4 (Cg-19) on the need to update consequently the Technical Regulations (WMO-No.49) Guidelines on the Preparation and Promulgation of the WMO Technical Regulations (WMO-No.1127) on the need for SERCOM to consider the proposed amendments to the Technical Regulations Rule of Procedure of technical commissions (WMO-No.1240), rule 6.1 on the possibility to have an extraordinary session of SERCOM. However, this would require an EC decision (Regulation 146(b)) To define a process for SERCOM to recommend for consideration by Cg-Ext (2025) of the proposed amendments to technical regulations that currently still require further review and consultations (e.g. voting by correspondence, as per Regulations 48 and 49).
The SERCOM-3 Decides: 1) That the World Meteorological Congress extra-ordinary 2025 session (Cg-Ext (2025)), with its focus on the EW4All initiative, should be targeted for the submission of a mature amendment proposal of the WMO Technical Regulations, Vol I (WMO-No.49) for its approval, 2) That the Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction should coordinate the necessary follow-up work on the proposed Zero Draft amendment provided as SERCOM-3/INF. 4.1, including an impact and risk assessment for Members, with the outcomes of this work to be submitted for the widest possible consultation with Members and other interested stakeholders by 31 July 2024; 3) To request the President of the Commission, in close consultation with the WMO Secretary General and with the Executive Council Technical Coordination Committee s guidance, to carry out broad consultations with other relevant WMO bodies, and to identify the most appropriate and cost-effective option for its approval by SERCOM as a recommendation
Supporting Material: SERCOM-3-inf04-1_ ZeroDraft of the Amendment proposal to Technical Regulations, Basic Documents No. 2 Volume I General Meteorological Standards and Recommended Practices PART IV. Meteorological, Hydrological, Climatological and environmental related Services.
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