AUSTRALIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TRADE AGREEMENT, AGREED AT WASHINGTON DC ON 8 FEBRUARY, DUE TO BE AFTER 13 MAY 2004
DRAFT TEXT TABLED ON 8 MARCH, NIA TO BE DELIVERED TO JSCOT ON 24 MARCH AND TABLED ON 30 MARCH 2004

EXAMPLES: AUSTRALIAN TREATIES THAT ARE TIED TO ISO STANDARDS


A	CUSTOMS and Carnet

	ATA Carnets and CPD Carnets
	Australian Series 1993 No 43
	DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE CANBERRA 

	(Customs) Convention on Temporary Admission 
	Annex A concerning Temporary Admission Papers 
	(ATA Carnets and CPD Carnets) 
	(Istanbul, 26 June 1990) 
	Entry into force generally and for Austalia of Convention and Annex A: 
	27 November 1993

	13. In accordance ISO 8601, dates must be entered in the following order: year/month/day.


B	WTO ISO STANDARDS INFORMATION SYSTEM

	Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Rounds of Multilateral Trade Negotiations 

	Ministers decide to recommend that the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization reach an understanding with 
	the International Organization for Standardization ("ISO") to establish an information system under which: 

	1 	ISONET members shall transmit to the ISO/IEC Information Centre in Geneva the notifications referred 
		to in paragraphs C and J of the Code of Good Practice for the Preparation, Adoption and Application 
		of Standards in Annex 3 to the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, in the manner indicated there; 

	2	the following (alpha)numeric classification systems shall be used in the work programmes referred to in 
		paragraph J: 

		(a) 	a standards classification system which would allow standardizing bodies to give for each standard
			mentioned in the work programme an (alpha)numeric indication of the subject matter; 

		(b) 	a stage code system which would allow standardizing bodies to give for each standard mentioned 
			in the work programme an (alpha)numeric indication of the stage of development of the standard; 
			for this purpose, at least five stages of development should be distinguished: 

			(1) 	the stage at which the decision to develop a standard has been taken, but technical work 
				has not yet begun; 

			(2)  	the stage at which technical work has begun, but the period for the submission of comments 
				has not yet started; 

			(3)  	the stage at which the period for the submission of comments has started, but has not yet 
				been completed; 

			(4)  	the stage at which the period for the submission of comments has been completed, but the 
				standard has not yet been adopted; and 

			(5) the stage at which the standard has been adopted;

		(c) 	an identification system covering all international standards which would allow standardizing 
			bodies to give for each standard mentioned in the work programme an (alpha)numeric indication
			of the international standard(s) used as a basis; 

	3. 	the ISO/IEC Information Centre shall promptly convey to the Secretariat copies of any notifications 
		referred to in paragraph C of the Code of Good Practice; 

	4. 	the ISO/IEC Information Centre shall regularly publish the information received in the notifications 
		made to it under paragraphs C and J of the Code of Good Practice; this publication, for which a 
		reasonable fee may be charged, shall be available to ISONET members and through the Secretariat to the 
		Members of the WTO.

C	International Code for Application of Fire Test Procedures 	

	DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE CANBERRA
	[under the auspices of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea [SOLAS] of 1 November 1974]
	(London, 5 December 1996)
	Entry into force for Australia and generally: 1 July 1998

	9 LIST OF REFERENCES 

		 9 ISO 1182:1990 - 	"Fire test - Building materials - Non-combustibility test"; 

		10 ISO 1716:1973 - 	"Building materials - Determination of calorific potential"; and 

		11 ISO 5659:1994 - 	"Plastics - Smoke generation, Part 2 Determination of optical density by a 
					single chamber test".