G/TBT/GEN/340  
13 février  2023 
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Comité des obstacles techniques au commerce  Original:  anglais  
 
  
RENSEIGNEMENTS ACTUALISÉS PRÉSENTÉS PAR L'ISO AU COMITÉ OTC  
RENSEIGNEMENTS COMMUNIQUÉS PAR L'ORGANISATION  
INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION (ISO)  
Le présent document contient les renseignements communiqués par l' ISO à la réunion du 
Comité  OTC des 16-18 novembre  2022 au titre du point 4 de l'ordre du jour (Renseignements 
actualisés présentés par les observateurs ).1 
 
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1.1.  ISO would  like to thank the WTO TBT for the opportunity to provide  an update on ISO activities.  
1.2.  ISO had a very successful ISO Annual Meeting 2022 which took place in Abu Dhabi on 
19-23 September and was hosted by the Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT), 
ISO's member for the UAE.  
1.3.  The new and open format o f this year's event attracted record -breaking participation  and was 
a pivotal moment for the ISO community to make progress and drive meaningful change for the 
future . Discover the event session  replays, highlights  and read the wrap-up of the week . 
1.4.  The 44th ISO General Assembly took place during the ISO Annual Meeting on 22 September, it 
elected the next ISO President, Dr . Sung Hwan Cho (Korea, Republic of), for 2024 -2025 who will 
serve as President -elect in 2023.  
1.5.  ISO's Climate  Commit ment was reinforced by the General Assembly through a resolution that 
called for members to engage with their national delegations to COP27 to highlight the important 
role played by International Standards and actively promote the Net Zero Guidelines due t o be 
published next month.  
1.6.  On 14 October, the ISO community celebrated World Standards Day  which was a campaign  on 
standards supporting the #SDGs  with the tagline "Shared vision for a better world".  
1.7.  The implementation  of the ISO Strategy 2030  (approved at beginning of 2021) is well 
progressing . The rolling implementation plan and the measurement framework are constantly 
adapted to better support the achievement of its goal s and priorities to help us reach our vision and 
mission . A revision of the measurement framework is currently ongoing, and the review of the 
strategic priorities is expected in 2023.  
1.8.  Overall information  on ISO capacity building can be found at Home (iso.org) , including ISO's 
strategic framework for capacity building, and the ISO Action Plan for developing countries 
2021 to 2025 . The ISO Digital Learning Platform  can also be accessed through this link . It is a 
knowledge hub that offers exciting opportunities for ISO members and their national stakeholders 
to benefit from a variety of standardization and business skills courses in a fully digital learning 
environment.  
 
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  1.9.  ISO's committee  for developing country  matters ( DEVCO ) met within the framework of the 
ISO annual meeting on 19 September 2022 . During this meeting the Standards4Sustainability 
programme was launched, to be implemented under the ISO Action Plan for developing countries 
2021 to 2025 . Guided by the needs expressed by ISO members from developing countries, we will 
roll out comprehensive support and create pools of national experts by conducting training of trainer 
programmes on specific ISO standards, linked to People, Planet, and Prosperity . Through this 
national expertise created, awareness raising for governments and businesses will take place 
through our members, and case studies will be developed.  
1.10.   The 56th DEVCO  meeting was chaired by Ms . Julia Bonner Douett of the Bureau of Standards 
Jamaica (BSJ) . Members approved a methodology designed to enable developing countries to 
identify standardization areas of primary interest and develop proposals for new fields of technical 
work. Given the importance of the ISO project on machine -readable  standards (ISO SMART), a new 
Working Group was established at the DEVCO level to strengthen developing country involvement . 
Lastly, DEVCO members participated in a roundtable on the subject of marketplace confidence that 
took place with the conformity ass essment (CASCO) and consumer (COPOLCO) Policy Development 
Committee (PDC) Chairpersons.  
1.11.   LDC program:  Given the needs identified by members from LDCs in the annual ISO capacity 
building needs assessment conducted in December 2021, the LDC Programme, initiat ed as a pilot in 
2019, will continue with a more targeted, tailored approach, but will allow more NSBs to take 
advantage of the programme offerings . The programme has been developed taking into 
consideration the feedback from the pilot programme members . Launched in 2022, and selected 
through a competitive application process, there are 10 ISO members from Africa and Asia 
participating in the LDC Programme . Under this new LDC Programme, the members will be able to 
select and create a programme that is tailo red to the thematic areas most important and strategic 
to their organization and for the benefit of their public and private sector stakeholders . This 
tailor-made programme will help to strengthen their institutional capacity to better benefit from 
interna tional standards to address their economic and social development needs through the 
high-quality tailored support while improving their standardization needs and contribution to the 
SDGs.  
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