TMB

Technical Management Board

• Secretary: Mr. Michael A. Smith
• Chairperson: Mr. Jacob Holmblad (Denmark) until end 2009
• Creation date: 1994

• Work programme
  (drafts and new work items of TMB)

Scope:

Members

ABNT Brazil (2011)
AENOR Spain (2010)
AFNOR France (2011)
ANSI USA (2009)
BIS India (2011)
BSI United Kingdom (2009)
DIN Germany (2009)
JISC Japan (2010)
KATS Korea, Republic of (2011)
SABS South Africa (2011)
SAC China (2011)
SCC Canada (2010)

[NOTE - The figures in brackets show the year at the end of which the term of office expires.]

Terms of reference

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

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