GTBTCS2R22.doc

G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.22
29 February 2016
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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
SINCE 1 JANUARY 1995
NOTE BY THE SECRETARIAT1
Revision
The Ministerial Decision on the Review of the ISO/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 affording Members 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standardizing bodies that have accepted or withdrawn from the Code since the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."
The following table contains a list of all standardizing bodies that have accepted the Code of Good
Practice since the entry into force of the WTO. The list is organized by Member (alphabetic order),
name and type of standardizing body, and date of acceptance of the Code of Good Practice. Since
1 January 1995, standardizing bodies from 128 Members2 have accepted the Code of Good
Practice, among them, central governmental standardizing bodies, local governmental
standardizing bodies and non-governmental standardizing bodies.
This document has been prepared under the Secretariat's own responsibility and is without prejudice
to the positions of Members or to their rights and obligations under the WTO.
2
In addition, standardizing bodies from four WTO observers (Algeria (2003), Belarus (2001), Bosnia
and Herzegovina (1997), Serbia (2005) have notified their acceptance of the Code of Good Practice to the
ISO/IEC Information Centre.
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G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.22
-2BODIES
THAT
HAVE
ACCEPTED
BY MEMBER IN ALPHABETIC ORDER
Member
Albania
Angola
THE
Name
Directorate of Standardization
and Quality (DSC)
-
CODE
OF
GOOD
PRACTICE
Type
Date
Central gov.
4 August 1997
-
-
Not specified
31 May 2005
Non gov.
31 July 1997
Central gov.
22 July 2003
Antigua and
Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda Bureau of
Standards
Argentina
Instituto Argentino de
Normalización (IRAM)
Armenia
Department of Standardization,
Metrology and Conformity
Assessment of the Ministry of
Trade and Economic
Development of the Republic of
Armenia
Australia
Australian Forestry Standard
Steering Committee
Non gov.
24 August 2001
Standards Association of
Australia (Trading as standards
Australia)
Non gov.
20 November 1995
Australian Communications
Authority
Central gov.
17 October 1997
Australian Gas Association
Non gov.
28 May 1998
Seafood Services Australia Ltd
Non gov.
13 Mar 2006
Australia Communications
Industry Forum Limited
Non gov.
12 February 1998
Central gov.
19 September 2006
National Marine Safety
Committee
Austria
Bahrain, Kingdom
of
Local gov.
Österreichischer Verband für
Elektrotechnik (ÖVE) (Austrian
Electrotechnical Association)
Non gov.
25 July 1996
ON Österreichisches
Normungsinstitut (Austrian
Standards Institute)
Non gov.
3 June 1996
Central gov.
6 September 1997
Standards and Metrology
Directorate (BSMD)
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Member
Bangladesh
Name
Type
Date
Bangladesh Standards and
Testing Institution (BSTI)
Central gov.
8 January 1998
Bangladesh Standards and
Testing Institution (BSTI)
Central gov.
13 February 2002
Non gov.
6 August 1997
Barbados
Barbados National Standards
Institution (BNSI)
Belgium
Belgian Standardization Institute
Central gov.
14 July 1997
Benin
Beninese Centre for
Standardization and Quality
Management (CEBENOR)
Central gov.
20 February 2002
Bolivia,
Plurinational State
of
Instituto Boliviano de
Normalización y Calidad
(IBNORCA)
Non gov.
31 Mar 1999
Botswana
Botswana Bureau of Standards
Non gov.
17 Aug 1999
Brazil
Associação Brasileira de Normas
Técnicas (ABNT)
Non gov.
31 July 1995
Brunei Darussalam
Construction Planning &
Research Unit (CPRU)
Central gov.
22 August 2007
Bulgaria
State Agency for Standardization
and Metrology
Central gov.
23 October 2000
Burkina Faso
Direction de la Normalisation et
de la Promotion de la Qualité
(FASONORM)
Central gov.
8 November 2004
(Standardization and Quality
Promotion Department)
Burundi
-
-
-
Cabo Verde
-
-
-
Cambodia
-
-
-
Cameroon
Ministère de l'Industrie, des
Mines et du Développement
Technologique (MINIMIDT),
Division de la Normalisation et
de la Qualité (CDNQ)
Central gov.
20 Jul 2009
Canada
Standards Council of Canada
Central gov.
23 Sep 1999
Central African
Republic
-
-
-
Chad
-
-
-
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Member
Name
Type
Date
Chile
Instituto Nacional de
Normalización (National
Standardization Institute) (INN –
Chile)
Central gov.
20 September 1995
China
State Administration of China for
Standardization
Central gov.
4 April 2002
Colombia
Instituto Colombiano de Normas
Tecnicas (ICONTEC)
Non gov.
31 July 1995
Costa Rica
Instituto de Normas Técnicas de
Costa Rica (INTECO)
Non gov.
19 December 1997
Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire Normalisation
(CODINORM)
Non gov.
19 November 2001
Croatia
Drzavni Zavod Za Normizaciju I
Mjeriteljstvo (DZNM) (State
Office for Standardization and
Metrology)
Central gov.
28 October 1998
Hrvatski Zavod Za Norme (HZN)
(Croatian Standards Institute)
Non gov.
1 July 2006
Central gov.
29 February 1996
Cuba
Oficina Nacional de
Normalización (NC) (Cuban
National bureau of Standards)
Cyprus
Cyprus Organisation for
Standardisation (CYS)
Non gov.
04 Jun 2009
Czech Republic
Czech Standards Institute
(CSNI)
Non gov.
26 Jul 1995
-
-
Non gov.
18 March 1996
-
-
Congo, Democratic
Republic of the
Denmark
Djibouti
-
Danish Standards Association
-
Dominica
Dominica Bureau of Standards
Central gov.
13 September 2000
Dominican Republic
Direccion General de Normas y
Sistemas de Calidad - Digenor
Central gov.
18 December 1997
Ecuador
Instituto Ecuatoriano de
Normalización (INEN)
Central gov.
24 June 1996
Egypt
Egyptian Organization for
Standardization and Quality
Control (EOS)
Central gov.
12 June 1995
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Member
El Salvador
Name
Type
Date
Central gov.
27 November 1996
Central gov.
30 July 1997
Non gov.
25 April 1996
Not specified
21 January 1996
European Committee for
Electrotechnical Standardization
(CENELEC)
Non gov.
10 July 1996
-
-
-
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y
Tecnologia (CONACYT)
National Council of Science and
Technology
Estonia
National Standards Board of
Estonia EVS
European Union
European Committee for
Standardization (CEN)
Comité Européen de
Normalisation
European Telecommunications
Standards Institute (ETSI)
Fiji
Finland
Finnish Standards Association
(SFS)
Non gov.
3 November 1995
France
AFNOR
Non gov.
25 October 1995
-
-
Gabon
-
Georgia
State Department for
Standardization, Metrology and
Certification of Georgia
(GEOSTAND)
Central gov.
24 November 2003
Germany
Deutsches Institut Für Normung
e.V. (DIN)
Not specified
14 Mar 1995
Ghana
Ghana Standards Board
Central gov.
15 May 2002
Greece
Hellenic Organization for
Standardization (ELOT)
Non gov.
21 November 1997
Grenada
Grenada Bureau of Standards
(GDBS)
Central gov.
15 August 1997
Guatemala
Guatemalan Standards
Commission (COGUANOR)
Central gov.
27 August 2004
Guyana
Guyana National Bureau of
Standards (GNBS)
Central gov.
1 February 2005
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Member
Haiti
Honduras
Name
Type
Date
-
-
-
Secretaría de Industria y
Comercio, Dirección General de
Producción y Consumo,
Departmento de Normalización y
Metrología
Central gov.
22 February 2006
Non gov.
(Ministry of Industry and Trade,
Directorate-General of
Production and Consumption,
Department of Standardization
and Metrology)
Hong Kong, China
Transport Department of the
Government of the (HKSAR)
Central gov.
28 November 1997
Office of the
Telecommunications Authority
Central gov.
17 December 1997
Works Bureau of the
Government of the (HKSAR)
Central gov.
10 February 1998
Electrical and Mechanical
Services Department
Central gov.
31 March 1998
Highways Department of the
Government of the (HKSAR)
Central gov.
19 December 1997
Hungary
Hungarian Office for
Standardization (MSZH)
Central gov.
04 Aug 1995
Iceland
Icelandic Council for
Standardization (STRI)
Non gov.
11 June 1997
India
Bureau of Indian Standards
Central gov.
19 December 1995
Indonesia
Dewan Standardisasi Nasional
(DSN)
Central gov.
18 October 1995
Non gov.
14 May 1997
The Government of the Hong
Kong (Special Administrative
Region)
Standardization Council of
Indonesia
Israel
The Standards Institution of
Israel (SII)
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Member
Italy
Name
Type
Date
Italian Electrotechnical
Committee (CEI)
Non gov.
17 October 1995
Italian National Standards Body
(UNI)
Non gov.
7 September 1995
Jamaica
Jamaica Bureau of Standards
(JBS)
Central gov.
12 April 1996
Japan
Ministry of International Trade
and Industry
Central gov.
7 May 1996
Japanese Industrial Standards
Committee (JISC)
Central gov.
25 June 1996
The Japan Iron and Steel
Federation (JISF)
Non gov.
2 December 1997
Japan Construction
Mechanization Association
Non gov.
16 Dec 1998
Consumer Product Safety
Association (CPSA)
Non gov.
2 March 1998
Japan Environment Association
(JEA)
Non gov.
10 July 1997
The Japan Society of Mechanical
Engineers
Non gov.
27 December 2000
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Fisheries
Central gov.
25 April 1995
Society of Automotive Engineers
of Japan (INC)
Non gov.
5 October 2000
The Japan Bearing Industrial
Association
Non gov.
21 September 2000
Central gov.
22 May 2000
-
-
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Jordan Institution for Standards
and Metrology
-
Kenya
Kenya Bureau of Standards
Not specified.
22 November 1995
Korea, Republic of
Korean National Institute of
Technology and Quality
Central gov.
24 Dec 1998
Non gov.
28 December 2001
Central gov.
29 October 2002
Korea Electric Association
Kuwait, the State
of
Standards & Metrology
Department (KOWSMD)
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Member
Name
Type
Date
Kyrgyz Republic
State Inspection on
Standardization and Metrology
under the Government of the
Kyrgyz Republic
(Kyrgyzstandart)
Central gov.
11 August 2000
Lao People's
Democratic
Republic
Department of Standardization
and Metrology, Ministry of
Science and Technology
Central gov.
1 March 2013
Latvia
Latvian National Centre of
Standardization and Metrology
Central gov.
18 Jul 1997
Lesotho
-
-
-
Liechtenstein
-
-
-
Lithuania
Lithuanian Standards Board
(LST)
Central gov.
2 April 1999
Luxembourg
Service de l'Energie de l'État
(SEE)
Central gov.
29 Jun 1998
Macao, China
-
-
-
Madagascar
-
-
-
Not specified.
25 November 1996
Central gov.
25 Jul 1995
Malawi
Malawi Bureau of Standards
Malaysia
Industrial and Industrial
Research Institute of Malaysia
(SIRIM)
Maldives
-
-
-
Mali
-
-
-
Non gov.
26 January 2001
-
-
Malta
Mauritania
Malta Standards Authority
-
Mauritius
Mauritius Standards Bureau
(MSB)
Non gov.
17 January 2000
Mexico
Mexican Institute for
Standardization and
Certification, A.C.
Non gov.
25 April 2000
Electronic Standardization and
Certification, A.C. (NYCE)
Non gov.
05 Jul 1999
National Textile Standardizing
Institute A.C
Non gov.
01 Sep 1999
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Member
Mexico (cont'd)
Moldova, Republic
of
Mongolia
Montenegro
Name
Type
Date
Normex: Mexican Standardizing
and Certifying Company S.C
Non gov.
03 May 1999
National Standardizing and
Certifying Association for the
Construction Sector, S.C.
Non gov.
23 Apr 1999
National Standardizing and
Certifying Association for the
Electrical Sector, A.C.
Non gov.
03 May 1999
Cámara Nacional de la Industria
del Hierro y del Acero,
CANACERO (National Chamber
of the Iron and Steel Industry)
Non gov.
26 June 2006
Centro de Normalización y
certificación de Productos, A.C.
(Centre for Standardization and
Certification of Products)
Non gov.
8 January 2004
Consejo para el Fomento de la
calidad de la leche y sus
derivados A. C. (Council for the
promotion of quality in milk and
dairy products)
Non gov.
13 March 2003
Directorate-General of
Standards (DGN) of the Ministry
of Trade and Industrial
Development
Central gov.
30 May 1997
Department of Standards,
Metrology and Technical
Supervision
Central gov.
25 July 1997
National Institute of
Standardization (NIS)
Central gov.
22 Jul 2013
-
-
Non gov.
1 March 2013
Central gov.
21 July 1997
Institut za standardizaciju Crne
Gore (ISME)
(Institute for standardization of
Montenegro)
Morocco
Service de Normalisation
Industrielle Marocaine (SNIMA)
(Moroccan Industrial
Standardization Service)
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Member
Mozambique
Name
Instituto Nacional de
Normalização e Qualidade
(INNOQ)
Type
Date
Central gov.
27 June 1997
(National Institute of
Standardization and Quality)
Myanmar
Department of Research and
Innovation (DRI), Ministry of
Science and Technology
Central gov.
21 October 2015
Namibia
Namibian Standards Institution
(NSI)
Central gov.
29 February 2008
Namibia Standards Information
and Quality Office (NSIQO)
Central gov.
5 July 2000
-
-
Nepal
-
Netherlands
Dutch Standardization Institute
Non gov.
1 February 1996
New Zealand
Standards New Zealand
Non gov.
20 June 1995
Environment Choice New
Zealand (on behalf of the
Minister for the Environment)
Central gov.
20 November 1997
Instituto Nicaragüense de
Energía
Central gov.
21 June 2001
Central gov.
18 June 2001
Central gov.
25 March 2004
Nicaragua
Nicaraguan Energy Institute
(INE)
Instituto Nicaragüense de
Acueductos y Alcantarillados
Nicaraguan Institute of Water
and Sewage Systems (INAA)
Ministerio de Fomento, Industria
y Comercio, Dirección de
Tecnología, Normalización y
Metrología
Ministry of Development,
Industry and Trade, Directorate
of Technology, Standardization
and Metrology
Niger
Directorate of Standardization,
Quality Control and Metrology
Central gov.
13 January 2006
Nigeria
Standards Organisation of
Nigeria
Central gov.
25 April 2005
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Member
Norway
Name
Type
Date
Non gov.
10 July 1997
Non gov.
7 May 1996
Central gov.
18 December 2000
Not specified.
February 1998
Central gov.
27 March 1998
Central gov.
25 September 2006
Not specified.
3 April 2003
Comisión de Reglamentos
Técnicos y Comerciales Instituto de Defensa de la
Competencia y de la Propiedad
Intelectual
Central gov.
8 June 1995
Comisión de Supervisión de
Normas Téchnicas, Metrología,
Control de Calidad y
Restricciones Pararancelarias del
Indecopi
Central gov.
8 June 1995
Central gov.
8 March 1995
Non gov.
1 August 1996
Norsk Electroteknisk Komite
(NEK)
Norwegian Electrotechnical
Committee
Norges Standardiseringsforbund
Oman
Directorate General for
Specifications and
Measurements Ministry of
Commerce and Industry
Pakistan
Pakistan Standards Institute
(PSI)
Panama
Ministry of Trade and Industry
(MICI)
Directorate-General for
Industrial Standards and
Technology (DGNTI)
Papua New Guinea
National Institute of Standards
and Industrial Technology
Paraguay
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología
y Normalización
(National Technology and
Standardization Institute)
Peru
(Indecopi, Supervisory
Committee for Technical
Standards, Metrology, Quality
Control and Para-Tariff
Restrictions)
Philippines
Bureau of Product Standards
(BPS)
Poland
Polski Komitet Normalizacyjny
(PKN)
(Polish Committee for
Standardization)
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Member
Portugal
Name
Instituto Portugues da Qualidad
Type
Date
Central gov.
19 Jun 1998
(Portuguese Institute of
Standards)
Qatar
Qatar General Organization for
Standards and Metrology (QS)
Central gov.
28 February 2006
Romania
Institutul Roman de
Standardizare
Central gov.
16 January 1996
-
-
Central gov.
15 February 2005
-
-
Romanian Standards Institute
Russian Federation
Rwanda
Rwanda Bureau of Standards
(RBS)
Saint Kitts and
Nevis
-
Saint Lucia
St. Lucia Bureau of Standards
Central gov.
29 October 2001
Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Bureau of Standards
Central gov.
25 September 2002
-
-
Samoa
-
Saudi Arabia,
Kingdom of
Saudi Arabian Standards
Organization (SASO)
Central gov.
2 May 2006
Senegal
Institut Senegalais de
Normalisation (ISN)/
Central gov.
31 December 1995
Ministère de l'Energie, des Mines
et de l'Industrie
Seychelles
-
-
-
Sierra Leone
-
-
-
Singapore
Singapore Institute of Standards
and Industrial Research (SISIR)
Central gov.
2 March 1995
Slovak Republic
Slovak Office of Standards,
Metrology and Testing
Central gov.
12 September 1995
Central gov.
14 May 2001
Non gov.
23 July 2002
Central gov.
5 February 1996
(UNMS SR)
Slovak Standards Institute
(SUTN)
Slovenia
Slovenian Institute for
Standardization (SIST)
Standards and Metrology
Institute (SMIS)
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Member
Name
Type
Date
South Africa
South African Bureau of
Standards
Non gov.
14 April 1995
Spain
Asociación Española de
Normalización y certificación
(AENOR)
Non gov.
20 May 1996
Central gov.
15 July 1997
-
-
(Spanish Standardization and
Certification Association)
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Standards Institution
Suriname
-
Swaziland
Swaziland Standards Authority
(SWASA)
Non gov.
9 October 2008
Sweden
Svenska Elektriska
Kommissionen
Non gov.
9 September 1996
Non gov.
19 August 1996
Non gov.
18 December 2002
Non gov.
19 July 1996
Schweizerische NormenVereinigung (SNV)
Non gov.
12 February 1996
Swiss Electrotechnical
Committee (CES)
Non gov.
22 November 1995
Pro Telecom, Swiss
Telecommunications Association
Non gov.
13 Dec 1995
The Bureau of Standards,
Metrology and Inspection (BSMI)
Central gov.
29 July 2002
-
-
-
Central gov.
11 August 1997
Swedish Electrotechnical
Commission
Material- och
Mekanstandardiseringen (MMS)
(The Swedish Materials and
Mechanical Standards
Institution)
Swedish
(SIS)
Standards
Institute
(Former
SIS
Standardiseringen i Sverige)
–
Informationstekniska
standardiseringen (ITS)
(Swedish Information
Technology Standardization
Switzerland
Chinese Taipei
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Tanzania Bureau of Standards
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Member
Thailand
The former
Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia
Name
Type
Date
Thai Industrial Standards
Institute (TISI)
Central gov.
31 October 1995
Standardization Institute of the
Republic of Macedonia (ISRM)
Central gov.
18 May 2009
Non gov.
Togo
-
-
-
Tonga
-
-
-
The Gambia
The Gambia Standards Bureau
Central gov.
13 January 2014
Trinidad and
Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of
Standards
Central gov.
25 March 1996
Tunisia
National Standardization and
Industrial Property Institute
(INNORPI)
Central gov.
2 June 1995
Turkey
Türk Standardlari Enstitüsü
Non gov
6 March 1996
(Turkish Standards Institution)
Uganda
Uganda National Bureau of
Standards
Central gov.
30 July 1997
Ukraine
State Committee of Ukraine on
Technical Regulations and
Consumer Policy
Central gov.
January 1997
Central gov.
16 April 2006
(Derzhspozhivstandart of
Ukraine)
United Arab
Emirates
Emirates Authority for
Standardization and Metrology
(ESMA)
United Kingdom
British Standards Institution
Non gov.
11 March 1997
United States of
America
The American National
Standards Institute, Inc. (ANSI)
Non gov.
29 September 1997
Uruguay
Instituto Uruguayo de Normas
Técnicas (UNIT)
Non gov.
12 September 1997
-
-
-
Venezuela,
Bolivarian Republic
of
Comisión Venezolana de Normas
Industriales (COVENIN)
Central gov.
14 May 1996
Viet Nam
Directorate for Standards,
Metrology and Quality (STAMEQ)
Central gov.
January 2009
Vanuatu
(Venezuelan Commission for
Industrial Standards)
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Member
Yemen
Name
Type
Date
-
-
-
Not specified.
28 Jul 1998
Non gov.
10 January 1996
Zambia
Zambia Bureau of Standards
Zimbabwe
Standards Association of
Zimbabwe
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