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PROPOSED UNDERSTANDING ON MTO-ISO STANDARDS INFORMATION SYSTEM
Ministers recommend that the MTO Secretariat reach an understanding
with the 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 mentioned above:
(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
in paragraph J of Annex 3 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 MTO
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 MTO Secretariat, to
the Members of the MTO.