G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.22 29 February 2016 (16-1199) Page: 1/15 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standardizing bodies that have accepted the Code, as well as a list of those standardizing bodies that have accepted or withdrawn from the Code since the previous review."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. 1 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) G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.22 -3- 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 - - - G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.22 -4- 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 G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.22 -5- 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 G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.22 -6- 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) G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.22 -7- 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) G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.22 -8- 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 G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.22 -9- 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) G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.22 - 10 - 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 G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.22 - 11 - 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) G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.22 - 12 - 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) G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.22 - 13 - 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 G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.22 - 14 - 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) G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.22 - 15 - 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 __________