The IEC General Meeting was hosted by the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) in Cape Town from 17 – 21 October 2005. More than 1600 from most IEC members and IEC affiliates around the world attended the general meeting. It was the largest IEC GM ever held.
The SADCSTAN Secretariat took advantage of the fact that the GM was hosted by a SADC member state and arranged for participation of all SADC member countries through funding from PTB. One delegate from each of the 14 SADC member states was funded by PTB to attend the meeting. Several workshops were arranged for the IEC affiliates running back to back with the IEC TC meetings.
Thirteen SADCSTAN member states are members of the IEC affiliate country programme while South Africa is the only SADC member state that is a full member of the IEC. Under the IEC affiliate country programme members enjoy the privilege to adopt IEC standards up to a limit of 200 freely. These standards are to be used as the basis of SADCSTAN harmonization work.
Full report is attached.
