2002 CANENA Council Meeting Ronald H. Reimer Vice President

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2002 CANENA Council MeetingRonald H.
ReimerVice President
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Agenda

• IEC members
• Affiliate Country Program
• Asia-Pacific Regional Centre
• IEC Standards Products
• Marketing View of IEC
• IEC Vision Mission
• IEC and CANENA

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61 - IEC members

• ARGENTINA
• AUSTRALIA
• AUSTRIA
• BELARUS
• BELGIUM
• BOS.-HERZO. (AM)
• BRAZIL
• BULGARIA
• CANADA
• CHINA
• COLOMBIA (AM)
• CROATIA
• CYPRUS (AM)
• CZECH REP.
• DENMARK
• EGYPT

ESTONIA (AM) FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY GREECE HUNGARY
ICELAND (AM) INDIA INDONESIA IRAN IRELAND ISRAEL
ITALY JAPAN KOREA, REP. OF
LATVIA (AM) LITHUANIA (AM) LUXEMBURG MALAYSIA MALT
A (AM) MEXICO NETHERLANDS NEW ZEALAND NORWAY PAKIS
TAN PHILIPPINES POLAND PORTUGAL ROMANIA RUSSIAN
FED. SAUDI ARABIA
SINGAPORE SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SOUTH
AFRICA SPAIN SWEDEN SWITZERLAND THAILAND TUNISIA
(AM) TURKEY UKRAINE UK USA YUGOSLAVIA
See Web Page http//www.iec.ch/affiliates/
As at 2002-03-01
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Affiliate Country Programme

• Aimed at all newly-industrializing countries
  around the world.
• Form of participation in the IEC without the
  financial burden of actual membership, making
  full use of all IT tools to reduce costs of
  participation to virtually zero.
• Two principal aims
• To encourage greater awareness and use of IEC
  international standards in newly-industrializing
  countries and
• To help newly-industrializing countries
  understand and participate in the work of the
  IEC.
• The IEC Affiliate Country Forum - Goals
• to act as the collective voice for all Affiliates
  to IEC
• to identify issues in the work of the IEC
  relevant to newly industrializing countries
• to seek a common position for Affiliates and
  communicate this position to the relevant
  technical or management committees and
• to develop a virtual network centred on a
  dedicated web site, specifically designed to
  cater to the needs of Affiliates.

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42 - Participants Affiliate Country Program

• ALBANIA JORDAN
• ARMENIA KAZAKSTAN
• BANGLADESH KENYA
• BARBADOS LEBANON
• BENIN LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIAYA
• BOLIVIA MACEDONIA
• BOTSWANA MALAWI
• BRUNEI DARUSSALAM MALI
• BURKINA FASSO MAURITIUS
• CAMBODIA MOLDOVA
• COMOROS MONGOLIA
• CONGO NAMIBIA
• COSTA RICA NEPAL
• CUBA PARAGUAY
• ERITREA RWANDA
• FIJI SEYCHELLES
• GHANA TANZANIA
• GRENADA TURKMENISTAN
• GUATEMALA UGANDA

See Web Page http//www.iec.ch/affiliates/
As at 2002-03-01
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Asia-Pacific Regional Centre

• Official Opening of the IEC-APRC was 2002-02-02
• IEC Asia Pacific Regional Centre (IEC-APRC)
• Web www.iec-aprc.net
• 3 Science Park Drive 04-03
• SG-Singapore 118223
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Officer in Charge Dennis Chew
• Email Dennis.Chew_at_iec-aprc.net
• WTO
• welcome(s) the creation of the IEC
  Asia-Pacific Regional Centre to enhance the
  participation in IEC work from countries in that
  region

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IEC Standards Products

• International Standards and Intermediate
  Deliverables
• International Standards (Full consensus)
• Technical Specifications (Full consensus not
  (yet) reached)
• Technical Reports (Information different from an
  IS or TS)
• Publicly Available Specifications (IEC - PAS)
• Guides (Non-normative publications)
• Industry Standards Products
• Industry Technical Agreement (ITA)
• Technology Trend Assessment (TTA)
• Industry Standards
• As defined in the ISO/IEC Directives Part 1,
  Section 2 and (for Guides) Annex A Common
  denominator is NC Voting with all but Guides
  under SMB jurisdiction.
• IEC PAS is different than the ISO PAS
• New proposed terminology, was referred to as
  ITA-Like Products when introduced in Masterplan
  2000, Se http//www.iec.ch/masterplan_2000.htm
• For more information on IEC Products see
  http//www.iec.ch/gnote3-e.htm

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• International Standards and Intermediate
  Deliverables
• International Standards (Full consensus)
• Technical Specifications (Full consensus not
  (yet) reached)
• Technical Reports (Information different from an
  IS or TS)
• Publicly Available Specifications (IEC - PAS)
• Guides (Non-normative publications)
• Industry Standards Products
• Industry Technical Agreement (ITA)
• Technology Trend Assessment (TTA)
• Industry Standards
• As defined in the ISO/IEC Directives Part 1,
  Section 2 and (for Guides) Annex A Common
  denominator is NC Voting with all but Guides
  under SMB jurisdiction.
• IEC PAS is different than the ISO PAS
• New proposed terminology, was referred to as
  ITA-Like Products when introduced in Masterplan
  2000, See http//www.iec.ch/masterplan_2000.htm
• For more information on IEC Products see
  http//www.iec.ch/gnote3-e.htm

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Past View of IEC
International Standards
Conformity Assessment
Global Industry Standards
CA for IEC Members Only
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Marketing View of IEC
Undergoing Enhancement
International Standards
Global Conformity Assessment
Global Industry Standards
A Full Service Stop
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IEC Vision Mission

• Vision
• IEC standards and conformity assessment
  programmes the key to international trade.
• Mission statement
• IECs mission is to be globally recognized as
  the provider of standards and conformity
  assessment-related services needed to facilitate
  international trade in the fields of electricity,
  electronics and associated technologies.

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IECs Mission Implementation Resources

• To achieve its mission IEC has only five
  resources -
• NCs Through its National Committee members,
• Agreements Via cooperative agreements with other
  organizations,
• Staff Directly by IEC Officers and Central
  Office Staff,
• Supporters Through companies and other
  organization that are supporters of the IEC
  Mission, and
• These four working through IEC Operations Actual
  Standards and Conformity Assessment operations of
  IEC

Progress in 1½ - Can more be done?
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IEC and CANENA

• The IEC CANENA Agreement speaks of CANENA
  activities in support of IEC
• IEC Officers and CO are willing to help, support
  CANENA and its members actively promoting the IEC
  in the Americas
• e.g., IEC is ready to (help) put on seminars or
  workshops in the Americas Region, in cooperation
  with CANENA
• IEC is willing help CANENA in working with the
  IEC NCs in the region

Signed 2000-09-17
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Should IEC CO, IEC NCs CANENA develop a plan
for the region?

• Plan to Initiate and maintain regional activities
  to
• Help the acceptance and recognition of the value
  of the IEC Standard Products and CA Schemes in
  trade facilitation
• Regulated products as well as
• Non-regulated products
• Initiate regional seminar on IEC value
• e.g., Importance of IEC Standard Products and CA
  Schemes to Electrical Safety and Trade
  Facilitation
• Increase participation of national producer-user
  industry executives in
• CANENA
• IEC governance at both the national and IEC
  levels
• Determine any national barriers and supports for
  these activities and plan a fix
• e.g., Develop a mentoring scheme for regional
• IEC Members and Affiliates
• Potential members and Affiliates

Next Steps?
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2002 CANENA Council Meeting Thank You