Under the auspices of H.E. Eng. Rachid M. Rachid, the Minister of Trade and Industry, Closure of ISO / TC 176/ CSAG meetings From 7-8 May (Cairo), through which Egypt proposal for issuing an International Standard for time management systems and the response speed to variables will be discussed as many countries have approved and welcomed this proposal. In this respect, Dr. Eng. Mahmoud Eisa, EOS President and the Regional Liaison Officer for the Arab and Mediterranean Region, has declared that selecting Egypt for hosting the Quality Systems Strategic Planning Committee Meetings in Cairo is due to many reasons; first of which is the increasing role of Egypt in participating in standards and quality activities at the international level, in addition to the new draft standard related to time. He also added that these meetings will discuss the strategic plan of Quality Management Systems series of standards ISO 9000 as well as the preparation for its fourth edition to be issued in 2009 coping with the continuous development in quality and excellence criteria, the administrative and technological developments and the increase of competitiveness worldwide. Moreover, studying the principles and bases for issuing the standards previously proposed by Egypt for time and speed management systems that have been inserted by ISO, after being approved by many countries, in the committee's work plan will be handled during these meetings as well for the benefit of work environment and market in all its fields.