Business plans of ISO technical committees open to public review
The business plans drawn up by the technical committees which develop ISO standards can be accessed from this location. ISO invites members of the public and special interest groups to review any of these plans on business sectors or technological areas they are interested in and to provide their comments. This input can be given directly to the secretary of the technical committee concerned by clicking on Send e-mail. All comments received will be considered by the committee after closure of a three-month period during which the plans are open to public review.
ISO standards are developed within nearly 190 technical committees, each of which deals with a specific area of technology. ISO has requested each committee to develop a business plan to guide its work programme. The objectives are to require the technical committe to analyse conditions and trends in the market sector which it serves and explicitly to link its work programme with the sector’s requirements. This exercise is expected to generate clear priorities for which standards are needed, the target dates for their completion and what resources are needed to do the job, as well as identifying the benefits that the standards will provide. Since the general public and special interest groups may not have the opportunity - or the desire - to participate directly in the development of standards, reviewing the business plans nevertheless allows them to contribute and to help ensure the broadest possible input into ISO’s standardization work.
