Technical Management Board (TMB)

The tasks of the Technical Management Board, as set out in the TMB Terms of reference, are the following:

  • To report to and, when relevant, advise Council on all matters concerning the organization, coordination, strategic planning, and programming of thetechnical work of ISO.
  • To examine proposals for new fields of ISO technical activity, and to decide on all matters concerning the establishment and dissolution of technical committees.
  • On behalf of ISO, to keep the ISO/IEC Directives for the technical work under review, to examine and coordinate all proposals for amendments and to approve appropriate revisions.
  • To act, within the framework of established policies relating to the technical work, on the following matters:
    • monitoring of the work of technical committees and project management requirements;
    • approval of titles, scopes and programmes of work of individual technical committees;
    • allocation or reallocation of secretariats of technical committees and, in the case of there being more than one candidate, allocation or reallocation of secretariats of subcommittees;
    • appointment of chairmen of technical committees;
    • appeals against technical committee and subcommittee action or inaction;
    • resolution of technical coordination issues between ISO technical committees, and vis-à-vis IEC, other international organizations, and regional organizations;
    • advising the Secretary-General on technical interface questions between ISO and IEC, and with respect to technical collaboration with other international standardizing bodies.
  • To appoint registration authorities and maintenance agencies for the implementation of International Standards.
  • To establish (and dissolve) Technical Advisory Groups (TAG) in order to obtain expert advice, and to appoint their members and chairmen.
  • To establish (and dissolve) committees on general standardization principles and to appoint their chairmen.

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tmb@iso.org