RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/TBT/CS/1/Rev.1
13March 1996
ORGANIZATION(96-0899)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
LIST OFSTANDARDIZING BODIES THAT HAVE ACCEPTED THE CODE
OFGOOD PRACTICE FOR THE PREPARATION, ADOPTION AND
APPLICATION OFSTANDARDS
1995
Revision
TheMinisterial Decision onReview oftheISO/IEC Information Centre Publication
adopted inMarrakesh on15December 1993 states thattheCommittee onTechnical
Barriers toTrade shall: "atleastonceayearreview thepublication provided bythe
ISO/IEC Information Centre oninformation received according totheCode ofGood
Practice forthePreparation, Adoption andApplication ofStandards inAnnex 3ofthe
Agreement, 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 ofallstandardizing bodies thathaveaccepted theCode of
Good Practice in1995. Since theentry intoforce oftheWTO, 28standardizing bodies from
26Members haveaccepted theCode ofGood Practice, among them, 12central governmental
standardizing bodies, 14non-governmental standardizing bodies, onestatutory body andone
parastatal body.G/TBT/CS/1/Rev.1
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WTO Member Name ofstandardizing body Type of
standardizing
bodyDate ofacceptance of
theCode
AUSTRALIA Standards Association ofAustralia
(Trading asStandards Australia)non-gov. 20November 1995
BRAZIL Associa çãoBrasileira deNormas
Técnicas -ABNTnon-gov. 31July1995
CHILE Instituto Nacional de
Normalización (National
Standardization Institute) -INNcentral gov. 20September 1995
COLOMBIA Instituto Colombiano deNormas
Técnicas (ICONTEC)non-gov. 31July1995
CZECH
REPUBLICCzech Office forStandards,
Metrology andTestingcentral gov. n.a.
EGYPT Egyptian Organization for
Standardization andQuality
Control (EOS)central gov. 12June 1995
FINLAND Finnish Standards Association SFS non-gov. 3November 1995
FRANCE AFNOR non-gov. 25October 1995
GERMANY DINDeutsches Institut für
Normung e.V.non-gov. 14March 1995
HUNGARY Hungarian Office for
Standardization (MSZH)central gov. 4August 1995
INDIA Bureau ofIndian Standards statutory 19December 1995
INDONESIA Dewan Standardisasi Nasional
(DSN)- Standardization Council of
Indonesianon-gov. 18October 1995
ITALY UNIItalian National Standards
Bodynon-gov. 7September 1995
ITALY CEI-Italian Electrotechnical
Committeenon-gov. 17October 1995
KENYA Kenya Bureau ofStandards parastatal 22November 1995
MALAYSIA Industrial andIndustrial Research
Institute ofMalaysia (SIRIM)central gov. 25July1995
NEW ZEALAND Standards New Zealand non-gov. 20June 1995G/TBT/CS/1/Rev.1
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WTO Member Name ofstandardizing body Type of
standardizing
bodyDate ofacceptance of
theCode
PERU Comisión deSupervisión de
Normas Técnicas, Metrología,
Control deCalidad yRestricciones
Parancelarias delINDECOPI
(INDECOPI Supervisory
Committee forTechnical
Standards, Metrology, Quality
Control andPara-Tariff
Restrictions)central gov. 8June 1995
PHILIPPINES Bureau ofProduct Standards central gov. 8March 1995
ROMANIA Institutul Roman deStandardizare
-Romanian Standards Institutecentral gov. 19April 1995
SENEGAL Institut Sénégalais de
Normalisation (ISN) -Ministère de
l'Energie, desMines etde
l'Industriecentral gov. 31December 1995
SINGAPORE Singapore Institute ofStandards
andIndustrial Research (SISIR)central gov. 2March 1995
SLOVAK
REPUBLICSlovak Office ofStandards,
Metrology andTesting (UNMS
SR)central gov. 12September 1995
SOUTH AFRICA South African Bureau ofStandards non-gov. 14April 1995
SWITZERLAND Swiss Electrotechnical Committee
(CES)non-gov. 22November 1995
SWITZERLAND ProTelecom, Association Suisse
desTélécommunicationsnon-gov. 13December 1995
THAILAND Thai Industrial Standards Institute
(TISI)non-gov. 31October 1995
TUNISIA National Standardization and
Industrial Property Institute
(INNORPI)central gov. 2June 1995