WORLD TRADE G/TBT/CS/1/Add.2
11February 1998
ORGANIZATION(98-0507)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
LIST OFSTANDARDIZING BODIES THAT HAVE ACCEPTED THE CODE
OFGOOD PRACTICE FOR THE PREPARATION, ADOPTION AND
APPLICATION OFSTANDARDS 1997
Addendum
TheMinisterial Decision onReview oftheISO/IEC Information Centre Publication adopted
inMarrakesh on15April 1994 states thattheCommittee onTechnical Barriers toTrade shall:
"atleastonceayearreview thepublication provided bytheISO/IEC Information Centre on
information received according totheCode ofGood Practice forthePreparation, Adoption
andApplication ofStandards inAnnex 3oftheAgreement, forthepurpose ofaffording
Members opportunity ofdiscussing anymatters relating totheoperation ofthatCode.
"Inorder tofacilitate thisdiscussion, theSecretariat shallprovide alistbyMember ofall
standardizing bodies thathaveaccepted theCode, aswellasalistofthose standardizing bodies
thathaveaccepted orwithdrawn from theCode since theprevious review."
Attached isalistbyMember ofstandardizing bodies thathaveaccepted theCode ofGood
Practice intheperiod under review. In1997, 28standardizing bodies from26Members haveaccepted
theCode ofGood Practice; among them, 16central governmental standardizing bodies, 12
non-governmental standardizing bodies.G/TBT/CS/1/Add.2
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WTO Member Name ofstandardizing body Type of
standardizing
bodyDate ofacceptance
oftheCode
ARGENTINA IRAM -Instituto Argentino De
Normalizaciónnon-gov. 31July1997
AUSTRALIA Australian Communications
Authoritycentral gov. 17October 1997
BAHRAIN Standards andMetrology Directorate
(BSMD)central gov. 6September 1997
BARBADOS Barbados National Standards
Institution (BNSI)non-gov. 6August 1997
BELGIUM Belgian Standardization Institute central gov. 14July1997
COSTA RICA Instituto deNormas Técnicas de
Costa Rica (INTECO)non-gov. 19December 1997
DOMINICAN
REPUBLICDireccion General deNormas y
Sistemas deCalidad -Digenorcentral gov. 18December 1997
GREECE ELOT -Hellenic Organization for
Standardizationnon-gov. 21November 1997
GRENADA Grenada Bureau ofStandards
(GDBS)central gov. 15August 1997
GUYANA Guyana National Bureau of
Standardscentral gov. 23July1997
HONG KONG,
CHINATransport Department ofthe
Government oftheHKSARcentral gov. 28November 1997
HONG KONG,
CHINAOffice oftheTelecommunications
Authoritycentral gov. 17December 1997
HONG KONG,
CHINAHighways Department ofthe
Government oftheHKSARcentral gov. 19December 1997
ICELAND Icelandic Council forStandardization
(STRI)non-gov. 11June 1997
ISRAEL Standards Institution ofIsrael (SII) non-gov. 14May 1997
JAPAN Japan Environment Association
(JEA)non-gov. 10July1997
MEXICO Directorate-General ofStandards
(DGN) oftheMinistry ofTrade and
Industrial Developmentcentral gov. 30May 1997
MONGOLIA Mongolian National Centre for
Standardization andMetrologycentral gov. March 1997
MOROCCO Service deNormalisation Industrielle
Marocaine (SNIMA) -Moroccan
Industrial Standardization Servicecentral gov. 21July1997G/TBT/CS/1/Add.2
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WTO Member Name ofstandardizing body Type of
standardizing
bodyDate ofacceptance
oftheCode
MOZAMBIQUE Instituto Nacional deNormaliza çãoe
Qualidade (INNOQ) -National
Institute ofStandardization and
Qualitynon-gov. 27June 1997
NEW ZEALAND Environment Choice New Zealand
(onbehalf ofMinistry of
Environment)central gov. 20November 1997
NORWAY Norsk Electroteknisk Komite (NEK)
-Norwegian Electrotechnical
Committeenon-gov. 10July1997
SRILANKA SriLanka Standards Institution central gov. 15July1997
TANZANIA Tanzania Bureau ofStandards central gov. 11August 1997
UGANDA Uganda National Bureau of
Standardscentral gov. 30July1997
UNITED
KINGDOMBritish Standards Institution non-gov. 11March 1997
UNITED STATES American National Standards
Institute, Inc.(ANSI)non-gov. 29September 1997
URUGUAY Instituto Uruguayo deNormas
Técnicas (UNIT)non-gov. 12September 1997
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