1. PACIFIC AREA STANDARDS CONGRESS (PASC) APEC SCSC – SRB Workshop 23 June 2007 Convention Centre Cairns

2. WHAT IS PASC ? The Pacific Area Standards Congress (PASC) is a voluntary, independent organization of 23 national standards bodies representing countries and territories of the Pacific Rim Established in 1973, PASC is one of five Specialist Regional Bodies (SRBs) of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Sub-committee on Standards and Conformance (SCSC)

3. Membership of PASC Australia Brunei Darussalam Canada China Colombia Fiji Hong Kong - China Indonesia Japan Republic of Korea Malaysia Mexico Mongolia New Zealand Papua New Guinea Peru Philippines Russia Singapore South Africa Thailand USA Viet Nam

4. What does PASC do ? Provides countries in the Pacific Rim with a forum to strengthen international standardization programmes of ISO and IEC and to improve the ability of Pacific Rim standards organizations to participate in these programmes effectively improve the quality and capacity of standardization in economies of the region support free trade within the region and with economies in other regions support improvement of economic efficiency and development of the region through the promotion of standardization interact with other bodies that represent elements of the standardization technical infrastructure, industry, consumers and government