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TC 207

Environmental management

• Secretariat: SCC
• Secretary: Mr. Kevin Boehmer
• Chairperson: Mr. Robert Page (Canada) until end 2011
• Creation date: 1993

• Work programme
  (drafts and new work items of TC 207)

• Business plan (TC)
• Working area on ISOTC

Scope:

Standardization in the field of environmental management systems and tools in support of sustainable development.

Excluded:

• test methods of pollutants, setting limit values and levels ofenvironmental performance, and standardization of products.

Note:

The TC forenvironmental management will have close cooperation with ISO / TC 176in the field of environmental systems and audits.

Total number of published ISO standards related to the TC and its SCs:	22
Number of published ISO standards under the direct responsibility of TC 207:	4
Participating countries:	74
Observing countries:	28

ISO committees in liaison:

TC 8, TC 22, TC 45, TC 61, TC 69, TC 91, TC 146, TC 146/SC 1, TC 176, TC 190/SC 7, TC 197, TC 203, TC 211, TC 223, TC 224, TC 229, TC 242

IEC committees in liaison:

IEC/TC 111

Organizations in liaison:

ANEC, APO, CEPI, CI, EC, ECOLOGIA, ECOS, EDF, EEB, FIDIC, GEN, IAF, IAI, IAQ, ICC, IISD, IISI, ILAC, INEM, INLAC, IQNet, ITC, OECD, SIERRA Club, UNCTAD, UNEP, WBCSD, WFSGI, WHO, WRI, WTO

Subcommittees/Working Groups:

Subcommittee/Working Group	Title
TC 207/CAG	Chairman's advisory group The convener can be reached through the secretariat
TC 207/AHG 2	Combat of desertification
TC 207/TCG	Terminology Coordination Group The convener can be reached through the secretariat
TC 207/WG 7	Inclusion of environmental aspects in product standards The convener can be reached through the secretariat
TC 207/WG 8	Material flow cost accounting  General principles and framework The convener can be reached through the secretariat
TC 207/SC 1	Environmental management systems
TC 207/SC 2	Environmental auditing and related environmental investigations
TC 207/SC 3	Environmental labelling
TC 207/SC 4	Environmental performance evaluation
TC 207/SC 5	Life cycle assessment
TC 207/SC 7	Green house gas management and related activities

Meeting calendar

* Information definite but meeting not yet formally convened
** Provisional

Month		Location
201007310010000000000July 2010		Mexico (Mexico)	**	TC 207