World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies Guideline for Application of New Work Item Proposal of 2024 ISO/TC249 International Standard
Release time: Dec 7,2023
Reading volume: 1316
Standardization facilitates economic and trade exchanges, supports industrial development, promotes scientific and technological progress, and standardizes social governance. International standards are an important technical basis for the development of global systems and economic and trade cooperation. The Constitution of World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies stipulates that “the Federation is to concentrate on the study, formulation, publication and promotion of the international organizational standards relevant to Chinese medicine and pharmacy; to cooperate with relevant international standardization agencies to expand the influence and promotion of the standards; to regulate the administration of Chinese medicine and pharmacy, to enhance the international status of Chinese medicine and pharmacy and in order to develop Chinese medicine and pharmacy in all countries (and regions) in a healthy and orderly way."
I. Overall objectives
II. Priorities
III. Procedures
IV．Contact information
Found in 2003, World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies has been promoting the construction of international standardization of Chinese medicine as an important task. At present, the federation has issued 136 standards and actively participated in the ISO and WHO activities, playing an important role in the international standardization of Chinese medicine.
International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the world’s largest standard-setter, established the Technical Committee on Chinese Medicine in 2009 (ISO/TC249). ISO focuses on the standards related to international trade. Then, WFCMS became an A-level liaison organization of the ISO/TC249 in 2010 and has the right to submit new work item proposals directly to the ISO/TC249 and invite experts to work on the development of international standards of Chinese medicine and participate in various conferences. WFCMS has submitted 24 proposals to the ISO/TC249 up to now, including proposals on terminology, management, TCM service, products, etc. Over 30 experts registered in ISO/TC249 and arrange delegations to participate actively in the annual meeting. ISO 22894:2020 Traditional Chinese medicine — Pulse waveform format submitted by WFCMS was officially published on March 25, 2020. Fourteen new work item proposals submitted by WFCMS were registered and under development.
To carry out the responsibility of A-level liaison organization actively and support the development of ISO/TC249, WFCMS is now collecting all the applications of new work item proposals from the members of WFCMS, specialty (working) committee, development committee and global TCM experts to summit to ISO/TC249 in 2023 and register as international standard of WFCMS as appropriate.
I. Overall objectives
New work item proposals closely related to TCM products, trade and services in line the scope of ISO/TC249 are the top priorities, to support trade and industrial development and technological progress.
II. Priorities
1. TCM medicinal products
2. TCM electormedical devices/apparatus
3. TCM Terminology & Informatics
III. Procedures
Application
Please send the application forms to wfcms_isd@163.com before the date of December 24, 2023. All the new work items should be proposals with a project leader (PL) only registered from WFCMS. Co-PLs are needed and each ISO national body can propose only one representative as a Co-PL. PLs of a proposal shall come from at least two countries and can simply apply for at the maximum of two proposals in this year. Please submit your proposal(s) only in one access.
Review
Department of International Standardization, WFCMS organizes experts to review all the proposals after checking all the application materials needed. A face-to-face presentation by PL or Co-PL will be held. The outcome is to be reported to all the applicants as soon as possible.
Review opinions and feedback
For proposals submitting to ISO/TC249, applicants shall revise the forms based on experts’ review opinions and submit all the revised materials to Department of International Standardization of WFCMS as soon as possible. One or two experts from each proposal can be registered in ISO/TC249 as expert from A-liaison organization to receive information and documents and attend annual meeting.
Those that are not recommended for submitting to ISO/TC249 will be listed in WFCMS standard base after revising all the materials with the review opinions.
Project management
All the projects submitting to ISO/TC249 shall be under the management and supervision of Department of International Standardization of WFCMS. The corresponding regulations will be formulated by Department of International Standardization of WFCMS.
IV．Contact information
Department of International Standardization, WFCMS
Contactors: Yang Liwen, Wang Lili
Tel: 86-10-58650190 86-10-58650051
Email: wfcms_isd@163.com
World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies
December 5, 2023
