Qatar took part in the 56th meeting of the Technical Council of the GCC Standardisation Organisation (GSO) that concluded in Salalah under the presidency of Oman, and which was attended by heads and representatives of national standardisation bodies of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) countries.
Qatar's delegation in the two-day meeting was headed by Chairperson of the Qatar General Authority for Standardisation and Metrology Eng. Mohamed bin Saud Mohamed al-Musallam.
The meeting focused on a number of important topics on its agenda, most notably the follow-up to the implementation of the decisions of the 55th Technical Council meeting. It reviewed several memos in the field of standards and metrology, including the memo of the presidency of the GSO on the adoption of draft standards and GCC technical regulations and a memo on the outcomes of GCC technical committees for specifications. The meeting examined the mechanism for reviewing and auditing lists of draft standards and GCC technical regulations and discussed developments in the international system for the classification of chemicals.
The heads and representatives of the national standardisation bodies of GCC member states also considered the memo of the presidency of GSO regarding the decisions of the ministerial committee for standardisation affairs, and discussed the draft agenda of the sixth meeting of the ministerial committee for standardisation affairs, in addition to discussing the memo of the presidency of the GSO regarding the appointment of the secretary-general of the Gulf Metrology Association, as well as considering a proposal to create the GCC quality award. (QNA)
