URUGUAY ROUND AGREEMENT
Decision on Proposed Understanding on °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ-ISO Standards Information System
Ministers decide to recommend that the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization reach an understanding with the International Organization for Standardization (“ISO”) to establish an information system under which:
1. ISONET members shall transmit to the ISO/IEC Information Centre
in Geneva the notifications referred to in paragraphs C and J of the
Code of Good Practice for the Preparation, Adoption and Application of
Standards in Annex 3 to the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade,
in the manner indicated there;
2.
the following (alpha)numeric classification systems shall be
used in the work programmes referred to in paragraph J:
(a)
a standards classification system
which would allow standardizing bodies to give for each standard
mentioned in the work programme an (alpha)numeric indication of the
subject matter;
(b)
a stage code system
which would allow standardizing bodies to give for each standard
mentioned in the work programme an (alpha)numeric indication of the
stage of development of the standard; for this purpose, at least five stages of development should be
distinguished: (1) the stage
at which the decision to develop a standard has been taken, but
technical work has not yet begun; (2) the stage at which technical work has begun, but the period
for the submission of comments has not yet started; (3) the stage
at which the period for the submission of comments has started, but
has not yet been completed; (4) the stage at which the period for the submission of comments
has been completed, but the standard has not yet been adopted; and (5) the
stage at which the standard has been adopted;
(c)
an identification system
covering all international standards which would allow standardizing
bodies to give for each standard mentioned in the work programme an (alpha)numeric
indication of the international standard(s) used as a basis;
3. the
ISO/IEC Information Centre shall promptly convey to the
Secretariat copies of any notifications referred to in paragraph C
of the Code of Good Practice;
4. the ISO/IEC Information Centre shall regularly publish the information received in the notifications made to it under paragraphs C and J of the Code of Good Practice; this publication, for which a reasonable fee may be charged, shall be available to ISONET members and through the Secretariat to the Members of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ.
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