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How Standards New Zealand Supports Government Regulators and Public Policy Makers
August 12, 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, standards play a vital role in shaping safe, efficient, and sustainable practices across industries. Standards New Zealand, the national standards body, and being embedded within the MBIE, collaborates closely...
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The 47th PASC Annual Meeting held in Tokyo, Japan
July 17, 2025
The 47th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Area Standards Congress (PASC) was held in Tokyo from 19 to 21 May, bringing together standards officials from 19 member countries, representatives from international organisations (ISO, IEC, ITU-T) and industry leaders...
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Standards shaping New Zealand's energy use, resilience and development
April 30, 2025
Standards have played a key role shaping New Zealand’s ability to shift towards both adoption of new renewable energies and improving energy efficiency. In collaboration with New Zealand’s energy regulator the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority...
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International guidance launched to support organizations in navigating ESG challenges
March 31, 2025
New ISO ESG Implementation Principles provide international guidance to streamline ESG practices, providing global organizations with actionable insights to enable clear communication of sustainability efforts worldwide...
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Tokyo to Host the 47th Pacific Area Standards Congress Annual Meeting
February 13, 2025
Tokyo is set to welcome delegates from across the Asia-Pacific region for the 47th Pacific Area Standards Congress (PASC) Annual Meeting, scheduled to take place from 19 to 21 May 2025...
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New Zealand hosts Pacific Islands Standards Week to help build capability and capacity for standards use across the Pacific
August 31, 2024
The event brought together over 40 Pacific Island representatives to expand their knowledge, expertise, skills and capability to help further quality infrastructure, standards and conformance systems used across the region...
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The 45th PASC Annual Meeting held in Noumea, New Caledonia
June 25, 2023
The Annual Meeting of the Pacific Area Standards Congress (PASC) was held May 2023 in Nouméa, New Caledonia. The event brought together standards officials from the 25 PASC member countries and representatives of ISO, IEC and the ITU for discussions on the PASC Strategic Plan...
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SCC members receive prestigious IEC awards
October 29, 2021
The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) is proud to congratulate 10 of its members for receiving prestigious IEC awards. Tony Capel received the highest honour given by the IEC: The Lord Kelvin Award. It recognizes exceptional and long-term individual contributions to standardization...
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Incubating Capacity for Critical and Emerging Technology (CET) Standards for Safety, Security and Trade
October 25, 2021
Critical and Emerging Technologies (CET) are current and emerging technologies with the capacity to significantly enhance a country's economic success, security, and social cohesion...
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World Standards Day Celebrations in Malaysia
October 15, 2021
In conjunction with World Standards Day 2021 (WSD 2021), Department of Standards Malaysia (DSM) organised several activities to celebrate and commemorate the occasion. With the theme ‘Shared vision for a better world', the celebration of WSD 2021 was aimed at raising awareness...
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Fiji Celebrates World Standards Day
October 13, 2021
World Standards Day is celebrated each year on 14 October. The central theme for this year is "Shared Vision for a Better World". This year the Ministry of Commerce, Trade, Tourism and Transport in Fiji partnered with the Water Authority of Fiji and the Consumer Council of Fiji to celebrate...
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PASC Members Elected to ISO Council
October 7, 2021
New ISO governance appointments were recently announced at the 2021 ISO General Assembly hosted virtually by the British Standards Institution (BSI). Congratulations to the following PASC members for their successful elections to the ISO Council...
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