PASC

In 1972, the United States made an appeal on behalf of the necessity of promoting industrial standardization in the Pacific area and formulating consensuses on international standardizing organizations such as ISO/IEC, and worked on several countries including Australia, Canada and Japan with a view to establishing a regional cooperative organization. As a result, it was determined to establish the Pacific Area Standards Congress (PASC), and the first meeting thereof was held in 1973. The PASC, consisting of the participating countries’ national standardizing organizations, now counts 21 member countries in the Pacific Rim region, including Japan.

The PASC has been working on the following issues, aiming to promote industrial standardization in countries in the Pacific region and to formulate consensuses on international standardizing organizations.

Exchanging information on standardization between countries in the Pacific region and supporting international standardization activities therein through international standardization organizations such as ISO/IEC
Providing opportunities for countries in the Pacific region to advance ideas among international standardizing organizations
Based on views proposed by countries in the Pacific region to the PASC, providing cooperation so that international standardizing organizations should establish international standards that meet the needs of the countries involved

Furthermore, in order to support deliberations on standards and conformity assessments by the APEC, the PASC established a standing committee (SC) at the special meeting in September 1994, and has provided cooperation from a technical viewpoint as a regional standardizing organization.

In Japan, the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee ( The Standards and Conformity Assessment Unit of METI is the secretariat ), established pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Industrial Standardization Act, has been a member of the PASC since 1986. PASC meetings have been held in Japan in 1976, 1992, and 2005.

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