Please note the organizational arrangements for the 30th session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
In order to register, an official letter signed by the Head of the Office needs to be shared with the members of the delegation, in order to enable them to register in INDICO by 12 May 2021.
The letter should clearly indicate:
In-person participation: |
1 in-person participant may be nominated. A total of 8 seats will be reserved in the Plenary/COW Hall for UN entities, which will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. |
Online participation: |
1 ‘speaker’ for Plenary meetings Observers who will be registered for the session and can follow the Plenary proceedings and the PNI workshop on the webcast. |
Registration for participation in the 30th session of the Commission has to be done via the United Nations registration platform INDICO. INDICO is based on the principle of self-registration by the individual participants. Each participant attending in-person or online must register in INDICO with his/her personalized INDICO profile (please see below under “steps to register”).
Registration in Indico will open
on Monday, 26 April and close on Wednesday, 12 May 2021.
***Click here to register ***
Every participant has to have a personalized INDICO profile. (create one here)
To register for the event, go to the event form in Indico and click on “apply”. In the form, all fields marked with * are mandatory.
Documents to be uploaded by the delegate: Official letter signed by the Head of Office
Guides: Profile creation and Register for an event [video]
NOTE: Late registration and switching of roles will not be possible. The numbers of both in-person as well as online participants per delegation will be limited and, as such, delegations are encouraged to register as early as possible.
UN entities may appoint one online speaker for the Plenary meetings, in addition to observers, who will be able to follow the proceedings of the Plenary and the PNI workshop on the webcast.
“Speakers” will receive a speaker link that technically enables them to request the floor. It is possible that more speakers use the speaker link jointly from the same device.
UN representatives nominated to participate in-person who want to have also an additional online speaker’s role for the plenary proceedings need to be also registered as online speaker in the official letter.
The proceedings of the plenary and the PNI workshop can be followed on the webcast. The consultations on draft resolutions in the COW, including the pre-session informal consultations, will not be webcast.
All statements of Member States and other stakeholders during the general debate shall be limited to three minutes. In line with past practice, statements made shared with the Secretariat, including longer versions, can be posted on the website of the Commission upon request.
The list of speakers for the general debate will be established on a “first come, first served” basis, differentiating only between ministers and other high-level speakers. The registration period for the general debate starts on 29 April and closes on 13 May 2021 (unodc-sgb@un.org, cc: zsoka.williams@un.org).
Delegations intending to deliver a statement under other agenda items, may inform the Secretariat starting from 29 April 2021, by indicating the agenda item as well as the representative who will deliver the statement. These statements should also be limited to three minutes. The list of speakers for other agenda items will also be established on a “first come, first served” basis.
UN entities may make statements during the regular session, time permitting.
It is also possible to submit pre-recorded video statements for the general debate. The statements have to comply with the time limitation. The videos need to be transmitted to unov-conference.statements@un.org by 11 May 2021. For the technical details, please consult the guide on video statements.
Access to the Plenary/COW Hall is limited to one delegate per entity at any given time under the conditions mentioned below:
The Secretariat will issue two types of badges to delegates who have been registered as in-person participant to the Conference:
1) Individual badges for in-person registered participants
2) Floating delegation badges without individual participants names (1 per UN entity).
In order to allow for sufficient physical distancing measures between delegates in the conference room, only participants with both the individual main badge and the floating badge are allowed into the conference room.
They will be handed out together with the individual badges at the registration desk at Gate 1. The badges can be picked up on Friday, 14 May, prior to the pre-session consultations, at Gate 1 from 11 am to 1 pm, as well as Monday, 17 May, 7:30 am-10 am.
Participants intending to travel from abroad should familiarize themselves, before planning their travel, with the special measures in place relating to the entry into Austria, as well as with the requirements for the return trip to the home destination.
Before entering the VIC, all in-person participants must have a negative COVID (PCR or rapid antigen) test. The test must not older than 72 hours (PCR test) or 48 hours (rapid antigen test).
All in-person participants are required to observe the COVID-19-related sanitary measures during the whole session. The most recent version will be published on the website of the Commission. In particular participants may not attend the meeting if they show symptoms associated with COVID-19.
In line with the system used in the UN headquarters building in New York, participants automatically declare, by swiping their badge on entry to the VIC, as a condition of their entry that they:
Participants who join the 30th session in person are encouraged to take a COVID-19 rapid test at Austria Center (U1 Kaisermuehlen and Drive-In) before entering the VIC. Tests are free of charge and available for everybody, including persons without health insurance in Austria. Please register and make an appointment online https://www.acv.at/en/rapid-testing/ and bring a photo ID.