. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/CS/1/Add.3
4 March 1999
(99-0838)
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 1998
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 affordingMembers 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 standardizing
bodies that have accepted or withdrawn from the Code since the previous review."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.2 (11February 1998), 14
standardizing bodies from 10 Members have accepted the Code of Good Practice; including, 7 central
governmental standardizing bodies, 5 non-governmental standardizing bodies, one autonomous
standardizing body, and one statutory standardizing body.G/TBT/CS/1/Add.3
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WTO Member Name of standardizing body Type of
standardizing
bodyDate of acceptance of
the Code
AUSTRALIA Australia Communications Industry
Forum Limitednon-gov. 12 February 1998
AUSTRALIA Australian Gas Association non-gov. 28 May 1998
HONG KONG, CHINA Works Bureau of the Government of
Hong Kong, Special Administrative
Regioncentral gov. 10 February 1998
HONG KONG, CHINA Electrical and Mechanical Services
Department, the Government of Hong
Kong, Special Administrative Regioncentral gov. 31 March 1998
IRELAND National Standards Authority of Ireland
(NSAI)central gov. 3 July 1998
JAPAN Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF) non-gov. 2 December 1997 (but
notified in 22 April
1998)
JAPAN Consumer Product Safety Association
(CPSA)non-gov. 2 March 1998
JAPAN Japan Construction Mechanization
Associationnon-gov. 16 December 1998
KOREA Korean National Institute of
Technology and Qualitycentral gov. 24 December 1998
LUXEMBOURG Service de l'energie de l'état (SEE) central gov. 29 June 1998
PAKISTAN Pakistan Standards Institute (PSI) autonomous
bodyFebruary 1998
PANAMA Ministry of Trade and Industry
(MICI)Directorate-General for
Industrial Standards and Technology(DGNTI)central gov. 27 March 1998
PORTUGAL Instituto Portugues Da Qualidade central gov. 19 June 1998
ZAMBIA Zambia Bureau of Standards statutory body 28 July 1998
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