Programme

THE SECOND TECHNICAL MEETING
ON THE HARMONIZATION OF STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATIONS
4th – 6th October 2004

and

PREPARATORY MEETING
3rd October 2004

ASEAN Secretariat Room, Garden Wing, EDSA Shangri-La
1 Garden Way, Ortigas Centre, Mandaluyong City 1650,
Manila, Philippines

TENTATIVE PROGRAMME

Session/Time Topic Presenter

Sunday, 3rd October 2004
15:00 – 17:00 (tentative) Preparatory Meeting
(ASEAN SEC, UNSD, ESCAP and The Chair) 		ASEAN SEC

Monday, 4th October 2004
Registration and Openning Session

8:30 – 9:00 Registration at EDSA Shangri-La Santan, Garden Wing Lobby  
9:00 – 10:30

Joint Opening Ceremony
(Opening of the 15th NSM, 9th NCS, ASEAN TG Meeting on Statistical Classifications, International Conference on Official Poverty Statistics)
ISLA Ballroom, Tower Wing, EDSA Shangri-La

 
10:30 – 10: 45 Coffee Break  
10:45 - 11:00 Opening Remarks
Garden Wing 		NSCB
Secretary General
Agenda and Things to Consider
11:00 – 11:15 For Approval
The Provisional Agenda
Highlights of the First ASEAN
Technical Meeting, held in Bangkok, July 9-11, 2003		 The Chair
11:15 – 12:15 For Discussion
Matters arising from the First ASEAN Technical Meeting and AHSOM Matters arising from the UN Expert Group Meeting, held December 2003
(1st Complete Draft ISIC Structure and the Draft CPC Version 2 Questionnaire)

ASEAN SEC and UNSD
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch Break  
Countries’ Response
13:30 – 15:30 Country’s Response to Matters arising from the UN Expert Group on Statistical Classifications
(Comments on the draft ISIC Rev. 4 and the draft CPC Version 2 Questionnaire)		 ASEAN Countries
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break  
  Comments on the Draft ISIC Rev. 4 Structure and the CPC Version 2 Questionnaire ABS/UNESCAP
Tuesday, 5th October 2004
Status of Implementation
8:30 – 12:30 Country Presentation on the Status of Implementation, Structure and Level of Conformity of ISIC and CPC, incorporating Country’s own experiences and needs ASEAN Countries
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break  
Principles of Classifications
13:30 – 14:30 Issues on Principles of Statistical Classifications The CHAIR
Boundary Issues  
14:30 - 15:00 Country experiences in treating boundary Issues
ASEAN
Countries
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break  
15:15 – 17:30 Country experiences in treating boundary Issues
ASEAN
Countries
Wednesday, 6th October 2004
Policy on Revision
8:30 – 9:30 Policy on Revision and Correspondence Table
ABS Experiences in Revising ANZIC and in Maintaining Comparability between ANZIC and ISIC		 ABS
9:30 – 10:30 UNESCAP views on Policy on Revisions to ensure comparability of statistics among ASEAN countries UNESCAP
10:30 –10:45 Coffee Break  
AHTN, PCPC and NSCB Web Page on Classifications
10:45 – 12:00 Implementation of the ASEAN Harmonized Tariff Nomenclature (AHTN) in the Philippines NSCB Technical Committee on Standards and Classifications
12:00- 12: 15 Presentation of the NSCB Web Page on Standards and Classifications and Web-Enabled Databases on Philippine Central Product Classification (PCPC) (with links to PSCC, HS, PSIC, UN CPC and ISIC) NSCB
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch Break  
Other Matters  
13:30 – 14:00 Other Matters
Schedule and Venue of the 3rd ASEAN Technical Meeting and Proposed Topics for Discussion 		The CHAIR
Adoption of the Reports  
14:00 –15:00 Adoption of the ASEAN Position on the Full Draft ISIC Structure The CHAIR
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break  
15:15 – 16:00 Adoption of the Report The CHAIR
Closing Remarks  
16:00- 17:00 Closing Remarks NSCB
ASEAN SEC

Expected Output of the Second ASEAN Technical Meeting

  1. Draft ASEAN Position on the full Draft Structure for the Revised ISIC and more detailed structure and issues (as a recommendation to UNSD)

  2. Draft ASEAN Consensus No. 1 on Some Policy Issues Concerning Statistical Classifications (as a recommendation to AHSOM)