WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/CS/2/Rev.6
20 January 2000
(00-0233)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
LIST OF STANDARDIZING BODIES THAT HAVE ACCEPTED THE CODE
OF GOOD PRACTICE FOR THE PREPARATION, ADOPTION AND
APPLICATION OF STANDARDS
SINCE 1 JANUARY 1995
Revision
The Ministerial Decision on Review of the IS O/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bodies that have accepted or withdrawn from the Code since the previous review."
 Attached is a list by Member of all standard izing bodies that have accepted the Code of Good
Practice since the entry into force of the WTO.  Since 1 January 1995, 115 standardizing bodies from
79 Members have accepted the Code of Good Practice, among them,  50 central governmental
standardizing bodies, 56 non-governmental standard izing bodies, two statutory bodies, two parastatal
bodies, three non-governmental regional bodies, one central governmental/non-governmental body,
and one autonomous body.G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.6
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WTO Member Name of standardizing body Type of
standardizing
bodyDate of acceptance of the
Code
ARGENTINA IRAM - Instituto Argentino De
Normalizaciónnon-gov. 31 July 1997
AUSTRALIA Standards Association of Australia
(Trading as Standards Australia)non-gov.  20 November 1995
AUSTRALIA Australian Communications
Authoritycentral gov. 17 October 1997
AUSTRALIA Australia Communications Industry
Forum Limitednon-gov. 12 February 1998
AUSTRALIA Australia Gas Association non-gov. 28 May 1998
AUSTRIA ON Österreichisches
Normungsinstitut - Austrian
Standards Institutenon-gov. 3 June 1996
AUSTRIA Österreichischer Verband für
Elektrotechnik ( ÖVE) - AustrianElectrotechnical Associationnon-gov. 25 July 1996
BAHRAIN Standards and Metrology Directorate
(BSMD)central gov. 6 September 1997
BANGLADESH Bangladesh Standards and Testing
Institution (BSTI)central gov. 8 January 1998
BARBADOS Barbados National Standards
Institution (BNSI)non-gov. 6 August 1997
BELGIUM Belgian Standardization Institute central gov. 14 July 1997
BOLIVIA Instituto Boliviano de Normalizacion
y Calidad (IBNORCA)non-gov. 31 March 1999
BOTSWANA Botswana Bureau of Standards non.gov. 17 August 1999
BRAZIL Associação Brasileira de Normas
Técnicas (ABNT)non-gov. 31 July 1995
BULGARIA Committee for Standardization and
Metrology (BDS)central gov. 30 December 1996
CANADA Standards Council of Canada central gov. 23 September 1999
CHILE Instituto Nacional de Normalización
(INN) - National Standardization
Institutecentral gov. 20 September 1995
COLOMBIA Instituto Colombiano de Normas
Técnicas (ICONTEC)non-gov. 31 July 1995G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.6
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WTO Member Name of standardizing body Type of
standardizing
bodyDate of acceptance of the
Code
COSTA RICA Instituto de Normas Técnicas de
Costa Rica (INTECO)non-gov. 19 December 1997
CUBA Oficina National de Normalización
(NC) - Cuban National Bureau ofStandardscentral gov. 29 February 1996
CZECH REPUBLIC Czech Standards Institute (CSNI) central gov. CSNI took over from
COSMT in March 1998(COSMT had accepted theCode on 3 July 1995)
DENMARK Danish Standards Association non-gov. 18 March 1996
DOMINICANREPUBLICDireccion General de Normas y
Sistemas de Calidad - Digenorcentral gov. 18 December 1997
ECUADOR INEN - Instituto Ecuatoriano de
Normalizacióncentral gov. 24 June 1996
EGYPT Egyptian Organization for
Standardization and Quality Control(EOS)central gov.  12 June 1995
EL SALVADOR Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y
Tecnologia (CONACYT) - NationalCouncil of Science and Technologycentral gov. 27 November 1996
EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIESEuropean Telecommunications
Standards Institute (ETSI)non-gov.
regional21 January 1996
FINLAND Finnish Standards Association SFS non-gov. 3 November 1995
FRANCE AFNOR non-gov. 25 October 1995
GERMANY DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung
e.V.non-gov. 14 March 1995
GREECE ELOT - Hellenic Organization for
Standardizationnon-gov. 21 November 1997
GRENADA Grenada Bureau of Standards
(GDBS)central gov. 15 August 1997
GUYANA Guyana National Bureau of Standards central gov. 23 July 1997
HONG KONG,
CHINATransport Department of the
Government of the HKSARcentral gov. 28 November 1997
HONG KONG,
CHINAOffice of the Telecommunications
Authoritycentral gov. 17 December 1997
HONG KONG,
CHINAHighways Department of the
Government of the HKSARcentral gov. 19 December 1997G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.6
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WTO Member Name of standardizing body Type of
standardizing
bodyDate of acceptance of the
Code
HONG KONG,CHINAWorks Bureau of the Government of
HKSARcentral gov. 10 February 1998
HONG KONG,
CHINAElectrical and Mechanical Services
Department of the Government of theHKSARcentral gov. 31 March 1998
HUNGARY Hungarian Office for Standardization
(MSZH)central gov. 4 August 1995
ICELAND Icelandic Council for Standardization
(STRI)non-gov. 11 June 1997
INDIA Bureau of Indian Standards statutory 19 December 1995
INDONESIA Dewan Standardisasi Nasional
(DSN)- Standardization Council ofIndonesiacentral gov./
non-gov.18 October 1995
IRELAND National Standards Authority of
Ireland (NSAI)central gov. 3 July 1998
ISRAEL Standards Institution of Israel (SII) non-gov. 14 May 1997
ITALY UNI Italian National Standards Body non-gov. 7 September 1995
ITALY CEI - Italian Electrotechnical
Committeenon-gov. 17 October 1995
JAMAICA Jamaica Bureau of Standards (JBS) central gov. 12 April 1996
JAPAN Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheriescentral gov. 24 April 1996
JAPAN Fair Trade Commission central gov. 25 April 1996
JAPAN Ministry of International Trade and
Industrycentral gov. 7 May 1996
JAPAN Japanese Industrial Standards
Committee (JISC)central gov. 25 June 1996
JAPAN Japan Environment Association
(JEA)non-gov. 10 July 1997
JAPAN Japan Iron and Steel Federation
(JISF)non-gov. 2 December 1997
JAPAN Consumer Product Safety Association
(CPSA)non-gov. 2 March 1998
JAPAN Japan Construction Mechanization
Associationnon-gov. 16 December 1998G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.6
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WTO Member Name of standardizing body Type of
standardizing
bodyDate of acceptance of the
Code
JAPAN Japan Marine Standards Association
(JMSA)non-gov. 8 February 1999
KENYA Kenya Bureau of Standards parastatal 22 November 1995
KOREA Korean National Institute of
Technology and Qualitycentral gov. 24 December 1998
LUXEMBOURG Service de l'energie de l'état (SEE) central gov. 29 June 1998
MALAWI Malawi Bureau of Standards parastatal 25 November 1996
MALAYSIA Industrial and Industrial Research
Institute of Malaysia (SIRIM)central gov. 25 July 1995
MEXICO Directorate-General of Standards
(DGN) of the Ministry of Trade andIndustrial Developmentcentral gov. 30 May 1997
MEXICO National Standardizing and
Certifying Association for theElectrical Sector, A.C.non-gov. 3 May 1999
MEXICO National Standardizing and
Certifying Association for theConstruction Sector, S.C.non-gov. 23 April 1999
MEXICO Normex:  Mexican Standardizing and
Certifying Company S.C.non-gov. 3 May 1999
MEXICO National Textile Standardizing
Institute A.C.non-gov. 1 September 1999
MEXICO Electronic Standardization and
Certification, A.C. (NYCE)non-gov. 5 July 1999
MONGOLIA Mongolian National Centre for
Standardization and Metrologycentral gov. March 1997
MOROCCO Service de Normalisation Industrielle
Marocaine (SNIMA) - Moroccan
Industrial Standardization Servicecentral gov. 21 July 1997
MOZAMBIQUE Instituto Nacional de Normalização e
Qualidade (INNOQ) - National
Institute of Standardization and
Qualitynon-gov. 27 June 1997
NETHERLANDS Dutch Standardization Institute non-gov. 1 February 1996
NEW ZEALAND Standards New Zealand non-gov. 20 June 1995
NEW ZEALAND  Environment Choice New Zealand
(on behalf of Ministry ofEnvironment)central gov. 20 November 1997
NORWAY Norges Standardiseringsforbund non-gov. 7 May 1996G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.6
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WTO Member Name of standardizing body Type of
standardizing
bodyDate of acceptance of the
Code
NORWAY Norsk Electroteknisk Komite (NEK) -
Norwegian ElectrotechnicalCommitteenon-gov. 10 July 1997
PAKISTAN Pakistan Standards Institute (PSI) autonomous
bodyFebruary 1998
PANAMA Ministry of Trade and Industry
(MICI), Directorate-General forIndustrial Standards and Technology(DGNTI)central gov. 27 March 1998
PERU Comisión de Reglamentos Técnicos y
Comerciales - Instituto de Defensa de
la Competencia y de la PropiedadIntelectualcentral gov. 8 June 1995
PHILIPPINES Bureau of Product Standards central gov. 8 March 1995
POLAND Polski Komitet Normalizacyjny
(PKN) - Polish Committee forStandardizationnon-gov. 1 August 1996
PORTUGAL Instituto Portugues Da Qualidade central gov. 19 June 1998
ROMANIA Institutul Roman de Standardizare -
Romanian Standards Institute central gov. 19 April 1995
SENEGAL Institut Sénégalais de Normalisation
(ISN) - Ministère de l'Energie, desMines et de l'Industriecentral gov. 31 December 1995
SINGAPORE Singapore Institute of Standards and
Industrial Research (SISIR)central gov. 2 March 1995
SLOVAK REPUBLIC Slovak Office of Standards,
Metrology and Testing (UNMS SR)central gov. 12 September 1995
SLOVENIA Standards and Metrology Institute
(SMIS)central gov. 5 February 1996
SOUTH AFRICA South African Bureau of Standards non-gov. 14 April 1995
SPAIN Asociación Española de
Normalización y Certificación(AENOR) - Spanish Standardizationand Certification Associationnon-gov. 20 May 1996
SRI LANKA Sri Lanka Standards Institution central gov. 15 July 1997G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.6
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WTO Member Name of standardizing body Type of
standardizing
bodyDate of acceptance of the
Code
SWEDEN BST - Byggstandardiseringen -
Swedish Building StandardsInstitutionnon-gov. 3 July 1996
SWEDEN Allamänna
Standardiseringensgruppen, STG -Swedish General Standards
Institutionnon-gov. 5 July 1996
SWEDEN ITS - Informationstekniska
standardiseringen - SwedishInformation TechnologyStandardizationnon-gov. 19 July 1996
SWEDEN MMS - Material- och
Mekanstandardiseringen - TheSwedish Materials and MechanicalStandards Institutionnon-gov. 19 August 1996
SWEDEN HSS - Hälso- och
sjukvardsstandardiseringen -Swedish Healthcare Standards
Institutionnon-gov. 19 August 1996
SWEDEN Svenska Elektriska Kommissionen  -
Swedish ElectrotechnicalCommissionnon-gov. 9 September 1996
SWEDEN TKS - Tryckkärkstandardiseringen -
Swedish Pressure VesselStandardizationnon-gov. 9 September 1996
SWEDEN IKH - Kran- och
Hisstandardiseringen - The SwedishCrane- and Lift Standardizationnon-gov. 19 September 1996
SWEDEN SIS - Swedish Standards Institution non-gov. 30 September 1996
SWITZERLAND Swiss Electrotechnical Committee
(CES)non-gov. 22 November 1995
SWITZERLAND Pro Telecom, Association Suisse des
Télécommunicationsnon-gov. 13 December 1995
SWITZERLAND Schweizerische Normen-Vereinigung
(SNV) - Swiss Association forStandardizationnon-gov. 12 February 1996
TANZANIA Tanzania Bureau of Standards central gov. 11 August 1997
THAILAND Thai Industrial Standards Institute
(TISI)central gov. 31 October 1995
TRINIDAD and
TOBAGOTrinidad and Tobago Bureau of
Standardscentral gov. 25 March 1996G/TBT/CS/2/Rev.6
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WTO Member Name of standardizing body Type of
standardizing
bodyDate of acceptance of the
Code
TUNISIA National Standardization and
Industrial Property Institute(INNORPI)central gov. 2 June 1995
TURKEY Türk Standardlari Enstitüsü - Turkish
Standards Institutionnon-gov. 6 March 1996
UGANDA Uganda National Bureau of Standards central gov. 30 July 1997
UNITED KINGDOM British Standards Institution non-gov. 11 March 1997
UNITED STATES American National Standards
Institute, Inc. (ANSI)non-gov. 29 September 1997
URUGUAY Instituto Uruguayo de Normas
Técnicas (UNIT) non-gov. 12 September 1997
VENEZUELA Comisión Venezolana de Normas
Industriales (COVENIN) -
Venezuelan Commission for
Industrial Standardscentral gov. 14 May 1996
WESTERN EUROPE European Committee for
Electrotechnical Standardization(CENELEC)non-gov.
regional10 July 1996
WESTERN
EUROPEANCOUNTRIES(EU and EFTA
countries)European Committee for
Standardizationnon-gov.
regional25 April 1996
ZAMBIA Zambia Bureau of Standards statutory body 28 July 1998
ZIMBABWE Standards Association of Zimbabwe non-gov. 10 January 1996
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