St. John’s, Canada /02/20161 Latest changes and developments in the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Presentation at the meeting of IEC TC 80 in St. John’s, NF, Canada Charles Jacquemart Technical Officer IEC Central Office

St. John’s, Canada /02/20162 IEC Member countries l 65 member countries ( ) - 52 full members - 9 associate members - 4 affiliate members l Latest members - Argentina - Brazil

St. John’s, Canada /02/20163 Technical committees and subcommittees l About 200 technical committees and subcommittees in the IEC l Latest TCs set up: - TC 106: Methods for the assessment of electronic, magnetic and electromagnetic fields associated with human exposure - TC 107: Process management for avionics - TC 108: Safety requirements for electronic equipment within the field of audio/video, information technology and communication technology * - TC 109: Insulation co-ordination for low- voltage equipment * Title under discussion

St. John’s, Canada /02/20164 Latest IEC Directives l ISO/IEC Directives, Part 1: Procedures for the technical work (fourth edition, 2001) l ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2: Rules for the structure and drafting of international standards (fourth edition, 2001) l ISO/IEC Directives, Supplement: Procedures specific to IEC (first edition, 2001) l Can be downloaded from IEC web site: l No paper version

St. John’s, Canada /02/20165 Promotion of horizontal TCs and publications in the IEC l Special page on the IEC web site l Lists technical committees with horizontal functions l Includes links to horizontal publications l Objective: promote implementation of basic/horizontal IEC standards

St. John’s, Canada /02/20166 Online IEV database l IEV: International Electrotechnical Vocabulary l All IEV terms may be accessed electronically: l Lists all IEV terms with translations into other languages

St. John’s, Canada /02/20167 Availability of green meeting documents l Complete collection of green meeting documents will be collected in a single ZIP file l Available on the IEC document server under a TC/nnn/MTG reference l See AC 11 ( )

St. John’s, Canada /02/20168 New TISS Team l TISS: Technical information support and services l Objective: Promote the use of modern IT tools in the IEC standards development process l Further information:

St. John’s, Canada /02/20169 Use of modern IT tools in the IEC l Training: seminars, IT tools guide, Bits & Bytes (see IEC web site) l Electronic voting for all IEC technical documents l Template for authoring IEC working documents l FTP sites and mail exploders for the exchange of documents and comments l IEC permission system allowing NCs to manage access to IEC documents l notification system of new documents l “My IEC”: customized list of documents (for specific TCs and SCs) l Meeting folders

St. John’s, Canada /02/ IEC Regional centre in North America l Will be in charge of a number of TCs and SCs (see AC 107, ) l IEC TC 4 and TC 37 have already been transferred to the North America office l Also regional office in Singapore (see AC 108, ) l Objective: further promotion of IEC in these areas of the world