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Inventory of National Practices on Standards, Technical Regulations
and Conformity Assessment in the Western Hemisphere


I. Membership in Standards Organizations
A. Membership in Regional Standards Organizations

Note the following abbreviations:

APLMF - Asia Pacific Legal Metrology Forum
CAN - Andean Committee on Standardization,Certification and Metrology (Comité Andino de Normalización, Certificación y Metrología)
CARIMET - Caribbean Institute of Metrology
CCMSC - Caribbean Common Market Standards Council
CMN - MERCOSUR Standardization Committee (Comité MERCOSUR de Normalización)
COPANT - Pan American Commission on Technical Standards
CSRM - Committee on Standards-Related Measures
ICAITI - Central American Institute for Research and Industrial Technology
PASC - Pacific Area Standards Congress
SIM - Inter-American Metrology System (Sistema Interamericano de Metrología)

Antigua & Barbuda
CARIMET- signatory/membership held by the government of Antigua and Barbuda
CCMSC - membership held by the ABBS

Argentina
CMN - membership held by IRAM COPANT - membership held by IRAM

Bahamas
CCMSC - Bahamas Government

Barbados
Regional CODEX Coordinating Committee for Latin America & the Caribbean Regional Quality Control Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean
CARIMET - membership held by BNSI: Barbados is curently the vice-chair
CCMSC - membership held by BNSI
SIM - membership held by BNSI

Belize
CCMSC - membership held by the Belize Bureau of Standards

Bolivia
CAN - membership held by the Secretariat for Industry and Commerce and IBNORCA
COPANT - membership held by IBNORCA (Bolivian Institute for Standardization and Quality)

Brazil
CMN - membership held by INMETRO COPANT - membership held by ABNT

Canada
APLMF - membership held by Legal Metrology Branch of Industry
COPANT - membership held by Standards Council of Canada
CSRM - under NAFTA
PASC - membership held by Standards Council of Canada
North American Council for Harmonization of Electrotechnical Standards (CANENA) - membership held by EEMAC (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturers' Association of Canada)

Chile
APLMF - membership held by INN
COPANT - membership is held by the INN
PASC - membership is held by the INN
SIM - membership is held by the INN

Colombia
COPANT
Latin American Institute of Iron and Steel
CAPRE and ANDESAPA
PASC


SIM
    - Representative entity:
    Superintendency of Industry and Commerce

CAN (Decision 376 of the Cartagena Agreement's Commission)

Costa Rica
COPANT - membership held by the INTECO (Technical Standards Institute of Costa Rica)
ICAITI - membership held by the Government of Costa Rica
SIM - membership held by the ONNUM (National Office of Standards and Units of Measure) of the Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Commerce

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Ecuador
CAN - membership is held by the INEN
COPANT - membership is held by the INEN
SIM - membership is held by the INEN
National Conference of Standards Laboratories (NCSL) - membership is held by INEM

El Salvador
COPANT - membership through ICAITI
ICAITI - membership is held by the Government of El Salvador
SIM - point of contact is CONACYT

Grenada
CCMSC - membership held by GDSB

Guatemala
COPANT - membership through ICAITI
ICAITI - membership is held by the Government of Guatemala
SIM -contact point: the Metrology Department of the Guatemalan Standards Commission, COGUANOR

Guyana
CARIMET- membership is held by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards
CCMSC - membership is held by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards
SIM - membership is held by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards

Haiti

Honduras

Jamaica
CCMSC- membership held by the Government of Jamaica
COPANT- membership held by the Jamaican Bureau of Standards
SIM - membership held by the JBS

Mexico
APLMF - membership held by Government of Mexico
COPANT - membership held by DGN, SECOFI
CSRM - under NAFTA
PASC - membership held by Government of Mexico
SIM - membership held by DGN, SECOFI

Panama
COPANT - contact is through the Panamanian Commission for Industrial and Technical Standards (COPANIT), an agency of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
SIM - General Bureau of Standards and Industrial Technology of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of Panama

Paraguay
CMN - membership held by INTN
COPANT - membership is held by the INTN

Peru
CAN - membership held by INDECOPI
COPANT - membership on this commission is held by INDECOPI
SIM - membership is held by INDECOPI

Saint Lucia
CCMSC - membership held by the SLBS
SIM - membership held by the SLBS

Trinidad & Tobago
CARIMET - membership held by TTBS
COPANT - membership held by TTBS
CCMSC - membership held by TTBS
SIM - membership held by TTBS

United States
APLMF - membership held by ANSI
COPANT - membership held by ANSI
PASC - membership held by ANSI

Uruguay
CMN - membership held by UNIT (Uruguayan Technical Standards Institute)
COPANT - membership is held by the UNIT

Venezuela
CAN COPANT - membership held by COVENIN since 1961
SIM - membership is held by SANAMET (National Autonomous Metrology Service)

 
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