. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/CS/1/Add.5
6 February 2001
(01-0594)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
LIST OF STANDARDIZING BODIES THAT HAVE ACCEPTED THE CODE
OF GOOD PRACTICE FOR THE PREPARATION, ADOPTION AND
APPLICATION OF STANDARDS
2000
Addendum
The Ministerial Decision on Review of the IS O/IEC Information Centre Publication adopted
in Marrakesh on 15 April 1994 states that the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade shall:
"at least once a year review the publication provided by the ISO/IEC Information Centre on
information received according to the Code of Good Practice for the Preparation, Adoption
and Application of Standards in Annex 3 of the Agreement, for the purpose of affording
Members opportunity of discussing any matters relating to the operation of that Code.
"In order to facilitate this discussion, the Secretariat shall provide a list by Member of all
standardizing bodies that have accepted the Code, as well as a list of those standardizingbodies that have accepted or withdrawn from the Code since the previous review."
Attached is a list by Member of standardizing bodies that have accepted the Code of Good
Practice in the period under review.  Since document G/TBT/CS/1/Add.4 (20 January 2000),
9 standardizing bodies from 8 Members have accepted the Code of Good Practice;  including,
5 central governmental standardizing bodies, and 4 non-governmental standardizing bodies
1.
                                                     
1 Latvia accepted the Code on 18 July 1997 before becoming a WTO Member in 1999.G/TBT/CS/1/Add.5
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WTO Member Name of standardizing body Type of
standardizing
bodyDate of acceptance
of the Code
JAPAN The Japan Bearing Industrial
Associationnon-gov. 21 September 2000
JAPAN Society of Automotive Engineers of
Japan, INCnon-gov. 5 October 2000
JORDAN Jordan Institution for Standards and
Metrologycentral-gov. 22 May 2000
KYRGYZ REPUBLIC State Inspection on Standardization and
Metrology under the Government of the
Kyrgyz Republic
(KYRGYZSTANDART)central-gov. 11 August 2000
LATVIA Latvian National Centre of
Standardization and Metrologycentral-gov. 18 July 1997
MAURITIUS Mauritius Standards Bureau (MSB) non.gov. 17 January 2000
MEXICO Mexican Institute for Standardization
and Certification, A.C.non-gov. 25 April 2000
NAMIBIA Namibia Standards Information and
Quality Office (NSIQO)central-gov. 5 July 2000
OMAN Directorate General for Specifications
and Measurements, Ministry ofCommerce and Industrycentral-gov. 18 December 2000
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