3.3 Liaisons： IACS (Cat. A.)
IMO (Cat. A.)
3.4 Changes since last plenary meeting of ISO/TC 8：
Australia, Bulgaria changed P-membership to O-membership
4 Constitution
4.1 Working Group： ISO/TC 8/SC 8/WG 1
"Bulk carriers"
Convener： Mr. Guang-Zong Ma, China
Participation： China, Denmark, Japan, Rep. of Korea, Portugal, Sweden, USA, Australia (O-member).
4.2 Working group： ISO/TC 8/SC 8/WG 2
"Ship's windows and side scuttles"
Convener： Mr. H.-Ch. Schade
Participation： Denmark, Japan, Netherlands, Germany, Ukraine
5 Programme of work
5.1 List of published standards：
ISO 614, ISO 1095, ISO 1751, ISO 3254, ISO 3434, ISO 3796, ISO 3797, ISO 3902, ISO 3903, ISO 3904, ISO 5480, ISO 5778, ISO 5779, ISO 5780, ISO 5797-1, ISO 5894, ISO 6042, ISO 6345, ISO 9519.
5.2 Work items under consideration：
- WI 001：
- ISO/DIS 3796 "Ships and marine technology - Clear openings for external single-leaf doors" (Revision of ISO 3796：1976)
- no WG
- 99-03 (DIS-ballot terminates： 1998-10-28) ???
- 40.20
- CEN enquiry
- WI 002：
- ISO 5778 "Ships and marine technology - Small weathertight steel hatches" (Second edition 1998-08-15)
- no WG
- 60.60
- CEN： UAP or PQ procedure
- WI 003：
- ISO/DIS 5894 "Ships and marine technology - Manholes with bolted covers" (Revision of ISO 5894：1978)
- no WG
- 99-03 (DIS-ballot terminates： 1998-10-28)
- 40.20
- CEN enquiry
