Update on IEC and developing countries

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Update on IEC and developing countries

• Françoise Rauser
• JCDCMAS
• Paris 2009-03-06

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Membership and Affiliation
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IEC facilitates participation

• Reduced national dues more members from
  developing and industrializing countries
• Participation in WTO workshops more Affiliate
  Countries
• Regional centres more adoptions, more
  participation in technical work and CA activities
• CAB New guidelines for developing countries

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IEC regional centres Asia-Pacific and Latin
America

• APRC
• New premises in Singapore
• 6 staff members technical function in a
  de-centralized way
• IEC-LARC
• São Paulo since 2007
• 1 regional manager
• Coordination of training, seminars and workshops

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IEC Family 11 new countries (158)

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6 new IEC National Committees

• ALGERIA
• ARGENTINA
• AUSTRALIA
• AUSTRIA
• BAHRAIN (AM)
• BELARUS
• BELGIUM
• BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (AM)
• BRAZIL
• BULGARIA
• CANADA
• CHINA
• COLOMBIA (AM)
• CROATIA
• CUBA (AM)
• CYPRUS (AM)
• CZECH REP.
• DENMARK
• EGYPT

ESTONIA (AM) FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY GREECE HUNGARY
ICELAND (AM) INDIA INDONESIA IRAN IRELAND ISRAEL
IRAQ ITALY JAPAN KAZAKHSTAN (AM) KENYA
(AM) KOREA, DPR (AM) KOREA, REP. OF LATVIA (AM)
LIBYA LITHUANIA (AM) LUXEMBURG MACEDONIA
(AM) MALAYSIA MALTA (AM) MEXICO MONTENEGRO
(AM) NETHERLANDS NEW ZEALAND NIGERIA
(AM) NORWAY PAKISTAN PHILIPPINES POLAND PORTUGUAL
QATAR ROMANIA
RUSSIAN FEDERATION SAUDI ARABIA SERBIA
MONTENEGRO SINGAPORE SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SOUTH
AFRICA SPAIN SRI LANKA (AM) SWEDEN SWITZERLAND THA
ILAND TUNISIA (AM) TURKEY UKRAINE UK USA VIETNAM
(AM)
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83 Participating countries
EUROPE Albania Moldova
AMERICAS Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Belize Boliv
ia Costa Rica Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador
El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Hondur
as Jamaica Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Lucia Saint
Vincent Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and
Tobago Uruguay Venezuela
ASIA Afghanistan Armenia Bangladesh Bhutan Georgia
Jordan Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Mongolia Myanmar Nepal
Turkmenistan Yemen
AFRICA Angola Benin Botswana Burkina
Faso Burundi Cameroon Central African
Rep. Chad Comoros Congo Côte d'Ivoire DRC
Congo Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea G
uinea Bissau Lesotho Madagascar
Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mozambique Namibi
a Niger Rwanda Senegal Seychelles Sierra
Leone Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia
Zimbabwe
ASIA-PACIFIC Brunei Darussalam Cambodia Fiji Lao
PDR Papua New Guinea
2002-10-10
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IEC free programme for developing countries

• Participation 5 new Affiliates (83)
• Gambia, Central African Rep, Congo, Chad and
  Suriname (jan09)
• Use of Standards 7500 in use by 60 countries
  (7) Jan 09
• Adoption
• in 31 Affiliate Countries
• 3 new countries Brunei, Zambia, Mongolia
• Adoptions on line http//www.iec.ch/affiliates

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Adoption of IEC IS by 31 Affiliate Countries Feb
09
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Whats new AFSEC

• An electrotechnical standardization commission in
  Africa (AFSEC)
• 10 founding countries
• South Africa, Kenya, Cote Ivoire, Nigeria,
  Senegal, Benin, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Ghana
• President Côte dIvoire
• Vice Presidents
• Technical work Nigeria
• Conformity Assessment Kenya
• NECs Senegal
• Secretariat South Africa
• Co-operation agreement with IEC to be signed

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Result Affiliate Coordinator for Africa

• An Affiliate Coordinator for Africa
• Evah Oduor, AFSEC Vice President for CA
• To assist Affiliate Leader and Secretariat for
  African issues
• Co-chaired the DC workshop during GM

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Brazil Workshop on EEE

• Members and Affiliates 27 countries
• 65 participants
• Case study from Brazil, Ghana and Sudan
• IEC Strategy Group 1 on Energy efficiency and
  renewable energies
• Efficient electrical energy transmission and
  distribution (TC8 /EDF)
• IECEE PV Programme

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IEC workshops in Asia

• TC100 workshop in Thailand (e-tech June08)
• IECEE in Indonesia (e-tech June), Korea (e-tech
  July08)
• IEC participates in standardization workshop in
  North Korea (e-tech Nov08)
• IEC-CIGRE UHV Symposium in India (held Jan 09)
• IEC Vice President at roundtable with Malaysian
  industries (e-tech Jan09)
• Regional Indonesian event on energy efficiency
  (e-tech Jan09)

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72nd IEC GM in Brazil

• Libya attends as full member
• 22 delegates from 12 Affiliate Countries
• Meeting with Coordinator for Africa and AFSEC
  President
• Exchange on NECs (Ghana and Sudan)
• Decision to launch an Affiliate Forum
• Council day conference on Contribution of IEC IS
  on sustainable growth and high tech development
  (Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard, CA Brazilian system,
  Philips)
• Emerging economies represented in Council Board
  (election/re-election)
• South Africa, Korea, Mexico, Brazil

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IEC launches on-line e-TRAINING for members
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IEC TC/SC Officers eTRAINING

• Designed for  IEC TC/SC Chairmen and Secretaries
• Newly appointed TC/SC Officers familiarization
  with their main tasks and relevant procedures
• Experienced TC/SC Officers refresh and update
  their knowledge
• Modular flexibility for structure, content and
  duration
• Regular updates
• http//etraining.iec.ch (restricted access)

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Contents

• Introduction to the IEC
• Responsibilities and tasks of TC/SC Officers and
  CO
• Standards development
• Forms and templates
• Technical drawing and editing
• Guidance for meetings
• TISS (Techn. Infor. Support and Services)
• Communication and sales

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THANKS

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