The International Electrotechnical Commission is the International Electrotechnical Commission, or IEC for short.
Established in 1906, it is the earliest nongovernmental international electrotechnical standardization body in the world, and is a Class A consultative organization to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
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The IEC. There are currently 81 member countries (60 full members and 21 associate members) called IEC National Committees, and each country can have only one organization as its member. Each member country is a member of the Council, which meets once a year, known as the IEC Annual Meeting, which is held in each member country in turn. The Executive Committee deals with matters referred to it by the Council, and the technical work of the IEC is handled by the Executive Committee (CA). In order to improve efficiency, the CA is divided into three groups, A, B and C, which deal with the coordination of standards development work in different areas at the same time.
The IEC currently has 95 technical committees and 80 subtechnical committees. China became a member of the Executive Committee of the IEC in 1957, the IEC has three certification committees, an electronic component quality assessment committee (IECQ), an electronic safety certification committee (IECEE), an explosion-proof electrical certification committee (IECEX). In order to unify the development of relevant certification guidelines, IEC also established in 1996, the Conformity Assessment Board (CAB), responsible for the development of a series of certification and accreditation guidelines, including system certification.
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