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ISO COPOLCO Plenary
✅India is hosting the 44th annual ISO COPOLCO Plenary in New Delhi (23-26 May 2023).
♻️Details :
✅Shri Piyush Goyal, the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs and Food and Public Distribution and Textiles will inaugurate the ISO COPOLCO event.
✅The event is being organised by the BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards
) – the National Standard Body of India established under the BIS Act, 2016.
✅ISO COPOLCO
, or the Committee on Consumer Policy is a committee of the International Standards Organisation
(ISO) which is responsible for promoting consumer interests in the standardisation process and ensures that standards are developed with the needs of consumers in mind.
✅ISO’s Committee on Consumer Policy (COPOLCO) is
dedicated to promoting consumer participation in standards.
✅With a people-centric approach and themes such as Challenges and Good Practices for Consumer Engagement, Consumer Protection and Legal Framework and Empowering Consumers for a Sustainable Future, this year’s plenary is important for India and the international community.
✅The International Standards Organisation (ISO) is an international body with 168 countries as members and India is an active and permanent member of the ISO and has
played an important role in both the technical work and the governance of the ISO.
✅India has had the honour of hosting the ISO COPOLCO earlier also in 2009.
✅BIS is also a member of regional standards bodies – South Asian Regional Standards Organisation (SARSO), Pacific Area Standards Congress (PASC) and is under the framework of IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa).
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