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SMIIC Technical Committee Week 2

SMIIC Technical Committee Week 2

The SMIIC Technical Committee (TC) Week 2 for 2017 was held in Istanbul, Turkey between 22-24 May 2017 with the participation of over 14 delegates from Iran, Turkey, Gabon and Pakistan.

The meeting schedule was as follows:

22 May 2017

  •  SMIIC Directives and IS Training
  • TC 13 Jewellery 1st Meeting

23 May 2017

  •  TC 3 Service Site Issues 2nd Meeting,
  •  TC 11 Halal Management Systems 1st Meeting,
  • TC 7 Transportation 2nd Meeting
  •  TC 12 Dangerous Goods Transportation Requirements 1st Meeting

24 May 2017

  • TC 6 Agricultural Products 2nd Meeting

The SMIIC Directives and IS Training was also held with participation of 14 delegates. The hands on training aided the use of the new IS system and increased understanding of the SMIIC directives which focuses on the procedures for Technical Committee work and rules for the structuring and drafting of OIC/SMIIC Documents.

Scope and business plans of the technical committees were discussed and finalised.

TC3 approved 2 new work items and requests from members to submit reference documents (national standards, technical specifications, etc.) regarding new work items to the TC 3 Secretariat within 3 weeks. TC3 also completed a work schedule in order to accelerate TC3 work.

TC11, TC12 and TC13 defined their scope and business plan, and are calling for nominees for Chairmanship of their committee.

TC6 decided to initially start work on standard for dates, cotton seeds and saffron whilst also calling for members to submit reference documents (national standards, technical specifications, etc.) that exist and that can form a basis for Standards in the field of Agricultural products. Whilst also requesting information from members as to agricultural products and issues for which SMIIC standards are necessary.

All committees will be further collecting new work item proposals. The TC Week gave an opportunity for the Technical Committee representatives to come together and increase the pace of standardization work.

The next meetings for all the TC’s will be held during 25-30 September 2017 SMIIC 2017 TC Week 3.

22/05/2017