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The General Department for Standards and the General Department for Measurements are concerned with developing Egyptian standards through their technical staff in collaboration with the specialized technical committees, undertake the secretariat of these committees, conduct the relevant technical studies and follow-up the required lab experiments to develop the draft standards as well. These committees comprise the specialists in different industrial, scientific and supervisory activities as well as consumers according to various industrial and supervisory sectors as follows: |
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A- Technical committees: |
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35 committees in the field of engineering industries |
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20 committees in the field of chemical industries |
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19 committees in the field of food industries |
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11 committees in the field of textile industries |
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Environmental committee |
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13 committees in the field of measurements |
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7 standards committees in the fields of (communications and information – medical equipment- safety and security systems) |
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B- General committees: |
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5 general committees for engineering, food products, textile, measurements and chemical sectors |
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C- International mirror committees: |
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CODEX Alimentarius Commission in the field of food industries. |
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The International Egyptian Committee for Consumer Protection Affairs. |
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The tasks of the general technical committees: |
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First: an Egyptian draft standard is being developed by the technical committees formed at EOS. These committees should take into consideration the following: |
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About 108 technical committees have been formed covering all fields of standards, and these committees are corresponding to a great extent to the committees of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) |
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To ensure neutrality and achieving consensus on developing a standard, the formation of committees should be balanced so as to comprise members from the most important concerned bodies such as: labs –supervision bodies – producing bodies –consuming bodies –researching bodies – universities –consumers)and any other sectors that are concerned with standards, under development. |
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The tasks of the committee are represented in studying the draft standard, discussing the received comments on this draft after circulation providing comments on standards application problems as well as on the annual plan for standards' development. |
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Second: Types of Egyptian Standards:
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New |
issued for the first time |
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Totally amended |
most of its items have been amended and the year of its publication is amended by keeping its previous number. |
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Partially amended |
some of its items have been amended and the date of publication and its own number are not amended and the partial amendment is notified and attached to the original copy. |
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Revised |
a standard which has been revised without any change and its number is not changed, but the date of publication is changed. |
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Withdrawn |
a standard which has been withdrawn and the standard replaced it is notified, if any |
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Adopted in its original language |
an international standard adopted in its original language without any change
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Harmonized |
a standard which is harmonized with the corresponding international standard (identical without any contradiction) |
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