Areas of focus for consumers within standards

Each year, COPOLCO sets priorities on aspects of technical work within ISO or IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) of most interest to consumers.

COPOLCO updates its Priority Programme annually. See the most recent version [PDF, 50Kb] and relevant standards in ISO's work programme.

Areas of priority interest for consumers are divided into two categories:

• Key or emerging priorities: new areas of technical work, or fields with new implications for consumers;

• Watching brief priorities: mature areas of work which have or have had active and successful consumer representation - consumer issues have been addressed to a large extent and/or have been reassessed by the working group as a lesser global priority at present.

• Reporting and coordination of work on these priorities happens through "Key Persons". Click here to access the Key Persons' information area.

• COPOLCO develops a report about monitoring its priorities on a yearly basis. Click here [PDF, 376Kb] for a publicly-available version of the Priority Programme Annual Report.