2005 CANENA COUNCIL MEETING San Antonio, Texas USA 20050309

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2005 CANENA COUNCIL MEETINGSan Antonio, Texas
USA 2005-03-09

• Frank Kitzantides
• IEC Vice President and Standardization Management
  Board Chairman

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Affiliate Country Programme

• Two principal aims
• Encourage greater awareness and use of
  international standards in newly industrialized
  countries and
• Help them understand and participate in IEC
  technical work.
• Affiliate Country Forum goals are
• Act as a collective voice for all IEC Affiliates
• Identify IEC issues that are relevant to newly
  industrialized countries
• Seek common positions and communicate to IEC TCs.
• 65 participating countries

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Affiliate Country Programme 2

• Form of participation through full use of
  existing IT tools.
• Encouragement to become IEC members.
• Starting to deliver results
• Kazakhstan, The Former Yugoslav Republic of
  Macedonia and Kenya have become Associate Members
  of the IEC.

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Associates rights

• Additional voting rights on up to four TCs or
  SCs.
• All Associates have access rights to all working
  documents and final publications (for commercial
  and internal use).
• Emphasis on choosing and focusing on relevant
  technical work.

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Regional centres

• One in Singapore and one in Boston.
• IEC now considering best location for a third
  centre in Latin America.
• Goals
• promote awareness of IEC in region
• increase use of IEC International Standards
• enhance participation of all countries in the
  region in the Commissions work.

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The IEC in figures
Total publications as of 2004-12-31 5 296
Publications issued in 2004 396 1 Guide
Total active projects as at 2004-12-31 1 541
Average development time for IEC standards in
2004 38 months
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SMB strategy and expansion

• New standardization strategy. Key features
• Ensure development of market relevant standards
• Support the promotion of worldwide acceptance and
  use of IEC standards, whenever possible without
  modifications
• Ensure representation in IEC structure and
  processes from all sectors, levels and material
  interests in industry.
• New technologies
• TC 111 on the environment created in October
  2004
• New TC for nanotechnologies being created.

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Double-logo standards

• First IEC/IEEE International Standards published
  in May and July 2004 IEC 60488-1 and 60488-2.
• Agreement being monitored.
• Corrective action to ensure all scenarios
  covered.
• Interest from other SDOs in this programme.

• In all
• 7 IEC/IEEE standards published
• 1 being finalized
• 4 being approved by SMB
• 1 in voting period for approval by SMB
• 1 refused by SMB.

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Global relevance

• IEC continues to remain committed to ensuring
  global relevance of its standards.
• Essential differences in requirements based on
• Infrastructure
• Climate.
• SMB approved EDRs to SC23H and SC23B for further
  processing. CB to address open issues.

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IEC and CANENA

• Since signature of cooperation agreement in 2000
  
• CANENA and IEC Officers attend each others'
  annual meetings
• CANENA is recognized at the SMB and provides
  annual reports of its activities
• A forum on the Global Relevance of IEC standards
  was held at the last CANENA annual meeting
• Common objectives for standards and conformity
  assessment in the Americas
• Help the acceptance and recognition of the value
  of the IEC standards and schemes in trade
  facilitation
• Question Should the IEC CO, IEC NCs and CANENA
  develop a cooperative plan for the region?

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Thank you for your attention.Any questions?