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WORLD TRADE G/TBT/SPEC/3
6February 1996
ORGANIZATION(96-0425)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
DISTRIBUTION OFISOBULLETINS TOMEMBERS
Subsequent totheMinisterial Decision taken inMarrakesh ontheimplementation ofthe
Code ofGood Practice forthePreparation, Adoption andApplication ofStandards inthe
TBTAgreement, aMemorandum ofUnderstanding ontheWTO Standards Information Service
operated byISOwasreached. Itwasagreed thatinformation onstandardizing bodies thathave
accepted theCode ofGood Practice (paragraphs CandJofAnnex 3oftheTBTAgreement) may
beupdated intheISOBulletin inorder tokeepinterested parties informed about developments in
thepreparation ofstandards bystandardizing bodies thathaveaccepted theCode.
TheISOhasincluded theinformation forthefirsttimeintheISOBulletin of
January 1996. Henceforth, Bulletins willbedistributed monthly directly bytheISOtoWTO
Members attheirmissions. TheBulletin isavailable inFrench andEnglish only. Anychanges of
address from thatusedregularly bytheWTO Secretariat orspecial requests regarding distribution
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..... Attached isacopyoftheISOBulletin ofJanuary 1996.