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Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service The document Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service is a text document of the United Nations System that lays out a set of standards of conduct for international civil servants. These standards were introduced in 2013 by the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) to replace the "Standards of Conduct in the International Civil Service", which had been introduced in 1954 and revised in 2001. The report on "Standards of Conduct in the International Civil Service" by the International Civil Service Advisory Board (ICSAB), which preceded the ICSC, was highly recognized.