添付資料2
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANIZATION
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE TC8
(SHIPS & MARINE TECHNOLOGY)
OCTOBER 1998
ISSUE NO. 2
FROM THE CHAIRMAN
Since our last newsletter, much progress has been made toward fulfilling our strategic vision. We are updating our work programme document 8N1000 on a regular basis and in our latest version we have 74 items that are IMO related. Our publicity has greatly expanded with numerous articles being published about ISO/TC8 activities. ISO/TC8 has 150 published standards and 202 work items. We continue to meet with our Advisory Group every six months with a full plenary meeting yearly. Activity is at an all time high! Our relationship with CEN is excellent. Now we must extend our collaboration to include other major regional bodies, such as COPANT and PASC.
The pilot project on use of e-mail has been worthwhile. We are moving forward in electronic communications and everyone is encouraged to join the e-mail approach. We can rapidly communicate and exchange ideas. Since everyone is being asked "to do more with less", this approach assists by reducing administrative burdens while providing information quicker. ISO/TC8's web page (courtesy of Howard Hime, USA) is outstanding. It is current and impressive. Try it at http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-m/standards/index.htm.
I regret to announce that NNI has relinquished the Secretariat after 50 years of dedicated service. We thank NNI and Mr. Van Elk in particular for his outstanding service. We wish him "Fair Winds and Following Seas." Now we must continue to march forward with our new Secretariat into the 21st century.
Our future is bright as the maritime industry is truly global and the importance of International Standards in facilitating trade is well recognized and accepted.
News from ISO
Technical Management Board (TMB)
Recent actions of the Board are provided below：
・ New ISO Deliverables
Council and the TMB approved the introduction of three new deliverables with the designations：
- ISO Publicly Available Specification (ISO/PAS),
- ISO Technical Specification (ISO/TS) and
- Industry Technical Agreement (ITA).
ISO/PAS and ISO/TS are developed within the ISO technical structure of working groups and technical committees/ subcommittees; but, due to the lower level of consensus needed for their approval, do not have the same status as International Standards. An ITA, on the other hand, represents a technical document developed by a workshop outside of the technical structure of ISO with administrative support from a designated member body.
Through the introduction of new deliverables, ISO is trying to provide an adequate answer to market needs in different technical sectors which require a more flexible and faster approach to developing technical agreements and making them available to the relevant market players at an early stage of the development of products and their introduction into markets.
It is expected that a committee wishing to develop either an ISO/PAS or an ISO/TS will make this decision at the start of a project. However, it is also possible that a normal ISO project is converted into one of the two new deliverables if it is subsequently discovered that agreement cannot be achieved quickly to produce an International Standard. Both types of documents shall be reviewed after three years with a view to their reconfirmation, withdrawal or further development into an International Standard. After six years, such document should either be processed to become an International Standard or should be withdrawn. Both types of documents may be developed in one language only.
ISO Technical Reports will in future be purely informative documents (i.e. the current type 3 technical reports). Normative technical reports (types 1 and 2) will in future be published as technical specifications.
