ISO 14001:2004 DIS (Final Draft) due March 2004

[Claes Gefvenberg]

Final draft.

I have heard that the Final Draft for the new version (due March 2004) of the 14000 series was approved at the meeting in Indonesia in July... I am however quite unable to find this information at the ISO website. Am I daft (I know I shouldn't ask questions like that), or have they neglected to publish it???

Over to the group. Does anyone have more info?

/Claes

 

[Randy]

TC 207 determined that the DIS "could" be issued for ballot in September. Under the best circumstances the new standard could be published in November 2004.

Don't hold your breath. There seems to be problems within TC 207 and nobody volunteered to host the next meeting.

 

[Claes Gefvenberg]

Thank's Randy... That may explain why the info was hard to find.

/Claes

 

[howste]

Here's the website for TC207: www.tc207.org

They usually have a lot more information than the main ISO site does. The COMMUNIQUÉ pdf on the main page has some information, but not as much insight as Randy provided.

 

[Claes Gefvenberg]

Yes.. That's where I was looking for it... Thank's

/Claes

 

[Sidney Vianna]

A lot of green to promote green

In support to Randy's comment, there is an intresting article this Month in Environmental Systems Update, about the high costs for sponsoring a meeting of one of the large ISO TC groups, such as TC 176 and TC 207.

The article says in part:

". . .The fact of the matter is that all of the countries that were willing to put up at least a quarter of a million dollars to host a meeting — we essentially have run out of countries,” concedes Joe Cascio, who recently stepped down as chair of the US delegation to TC 207. “Now the concept is we want to be able to raise money to fund those meetings. . . "

 

[Claes Gefvenberg]

I see. Thank's for the info Sidney.

As a matter of fact I'm currently working my way through the DIS. It doesn't feel like a major update... Anyone else else having a look at it?

/Claes

 

[Marc]

Is the DIS for sale or is it a freebie? Where to get it?

 

[Sidney Vianna]

Normally, they allow for free circulation of the document PROVIDED that the intention is for users to give feedback about the proposed revisions.

I do not have a copy of the DIS. I only have a copy of the CD2 version, which is now obsolete

 

[Claes Gefvenberg]

Is the DIS for sale or is it a freebie? Where to get it?

Unfortunately it's not a freebie. I got my copy from the Swedish Standards Institute at www.sis.se (Yes it's in english - not translated yet). The site is in swedish, but they can be contacted via [email protected]. It should also be available at www.iso.ch, but it's quite impossible to access their site at the moment.

/Claes