Arab standardization advisory committee meets in Rabat

The Arab high standardization advisory committee will hold here this March 2-3 its 19th session to examine an Arab unified standards project before referring it to the Arab ministers council.

A statement of the Rabat-based Arab Organization of industrial and mining development says the session will probe standards of construction materials, electricity, household appliances, paper, fish, textile, food products and detergents.

The session, to bring together for the first time in the Arab world heads of the world's most important standardization institutions, will also look into activities of the Arab standardization centers, economic, technical and legal aspects of the creation of an Arab certification authority, and three other projects dealing with implementation of resolutions and recommendations of the advisory committee's previous session, and appraise outcome of a meeting of the Arab group in charge of translating to Arabic international standards, in addition to modernization of quality norms and translation of standards adopted by international organizations.