. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/CS/1/Add.4
20 January 2000
(00-0234)
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
1999
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standardizing bodies that have accepted the Code, as well as a list of those standardizingbodies that have accepted or withdrawn from the Code since the previous review."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 standardiz ing bodies that have accepted the Code of Good
Practice in the period under review.  Since document G/TBT/CS/1/Add.3 (4 March 1999),
9 standardizing bodies from 5 Members have accepted the Code of Good Practice;  including,
1 central governmental standardizing bodies, and 8 non-governmental standardizing bodies.G/TBT/CS/1/Add.4
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WTO Member Name of standardizing body Type of
standardizing
bodyDate of acceptance
of the Code
BOLIVIA Instituto Boliviano de Normalizacion y
Calidad  (IBNORCA)non-gov. 31 March 1999
BOTSWANA Botswana Bureau of Standards non.gov. 17 August 1999
CANADA Standards Council of Canada central gov. 23 September 1999
JAPAN Japan Marine Standards Association
(JMSA)non-gov. 8 February 1999
MEXICO National Standardizing and Certifying
Association for the Electrical Sector,A.C.non-gov. 3 May 1999
MEXICO National Standardizing and Certifying
Association for the Construction Sector,
S.C.non-gov. 23 April 1999
MEXICO Normex:  Mexican Standardizing and
Certifying Company S.C.non-gov. 3 May 1999
MEXICO National Textile Standardizing Institute
A.C.non-gov. 1 September 1999
MEXICO Electronic Standardization and
Certification, A.C. (NYCE)non-gov. 5 July 1999
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