1. St. John’s, Canada 2001-09 09/02/20161 Latest changes and developments in the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Presentation at the meeting of IEC TC 80 in St. John’s, NF, Canada 2001-09 Charles Jacquemart Technical Officer IEC Central Office

2. St. John’s, Canada 2001-09 09/02/20162 IEC Member countries l 65 member countries (2001-09) - 52 full members - 9 associate members - 4 affiliate members l Latest members - Argentina - Brazil

3. St. John’s, Canada 2001-09 09/02/20163 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

4. St. John’s, Canada 2001-09 09/02/20164 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: http://www.iec.ch l No paper version

5. St. John’s, Canada 2001-09 09/02/20165 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

6. St. John’s, Canada 2001-09 09/02/20166 Online IEV database l IEV: International Electrotechnical Vocabulary l All IEV terms may be accessed electronically: http://domino.iec.ch/iev l Lists all IEV terms with translations into other languages

7. St. John’s, Canada 2001-09 09/02/20167 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 (2001-02-02)

8. St. John’s, Canada 2001-09 09/02/20168 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: www.iec.ch/tiss

9. St. John’s, Canada 2001-09 09/02/20169 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 E-mail notification system of new documents l “My IEC”: customized list of documents (for specific TCs and SCs) l Meeting folders

10. St. John’s, Canada 2001-09 09/02/201610 IEC Regional centre in North America l Will be in charge of a number of TCs and SCs (see AC 107, 2001-08-31) 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, 2001-09-14) l Objective: further promotion of IEC in these areas of the world