1. INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION Update on IEC and developing countries Françoise Rauser JCDCMAS Paris 2009-03-06

2. 2 Membership and Affiliation 56 Full Members 19 Associate Members 83 Affiliates May submit votes on all TC/SC and Council documents via electronic voting system May submit votes/ comments on documents of 4 selected TC/SCs via electronic voting system May not vote May submit comments on all TC/SC and Council documents May submit comments only on TC/SC documents but not on Council documents May submit comments on the documents of 10 selected TC/SCs by e- mail Fully participate in international standardization activities Limited participation of countries with limited resources A type of participation, but not membership Full access to IS for adoption and for commercial exploitation Selection of 200 IS to start basic electronic library. Facilitated adoption procedure

3. 3 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

4. 4 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

5. 5 IEC Family: 11 new countries (158)

6. 6 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 THAILAND TUNISIA (AM) TURKEY UKRAINE UK USA VIETNAM (AM) 6 new IEC National Committees

7. 7 *2002-10-10 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 Guinea Bissau Lesotho Madagascar ASIA Afghanistan Armenia Bangladesh Bhutan Georgia Jordan Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Turkmenistan Yemen AMERICAS Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Belize Bolivia Costa Rica Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Lucia Saint Vincent & Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela EUROPE Albania Moldova ASIA-PACIFIC Brunei Darussalam Cambodia Fiji Lao PDR Papua New Guinea Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Rwanda Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe 83 Participating countries

8. 8 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

9. 9 Adoption of IEC IS by 31 Affiliate Countries Feb 09 Albania 05DRC 06Ghana 05Mauritius 07Sierra Leone 06 Bangladesh 06 Costa Rica 06Guyana 06Moldova 06 Mongolia 09 Trinidad & Tobago 07 Benin 06Côte d’Ivoire 06 Jordan 05Nigeria 04 Uganda 06 Botswana 04Cuba 03Lao PDR 07Rwanda 05 Uruguay 06 Brunei 08Eritrea 07Lebanon 06Saint Lucia 06 Zambia 09 Cambodia 06Ethiopia 06Malawi 06Senegal 07Zimbabwe 07

10. 10 What’s 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 d’Ivoire  Vice Presidents  Technical work: Nigeria  Conformity Assessment: Kenya  NECs: Senegal  Secretariat: South Africa  Co-operation agreement with IEC to be signed

11. 11 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

12. 12 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

13. 13 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)

14. 14 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

15. 15 IEC launches on-line e-TRAINING for members

16. 16 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) http://etraining.iec.ch

17. 17 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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