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5 / 8 SMB/4438/R SMB/4438/R STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN (SBP) IEC/TC or SC 1 Secretariat AENOR Date 2010-10 Please ensure this form is annexed to the Report to the Standardization Management Board if it has been prepared during a meeting, or sent to the Central Office promptly after its contents have been agreed by the committee. Title of TC Terminology A Background Inside the International Electrotechnical Commission the work on terminology began in 1909, leading, in 1911, to the setting up of TC1,which is its oldest established committee. TC1 is a semantic committee whose scope is to sanction the terms and definitions used in the different electrotechnical fields and to determine the equivalence of the terms used in the different languages. As a consequence, its task is to prepare the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) aiming at the standardization and co-ordination of the terms relating to electrical sciences and techniques for use in the technical language and literature, in technical specifications and in commercial exchanges, and at giving their equivalents in the different languages. The IEV is subdivided into different Parts. Up to now, more than 80 Parts have been published, classified in the following subjects: 1- General concepts 2- Materials 3- Measurement, regulation and calculation 4- Electric equipment 5- Electronic equipment 6- Generation, transmission and distribution of electric energy 7- Telecommunications 8- Particular applications TC 1 has the overall responsibility for preparing the IEV and forwarding the corresponding data, in their French and English versions, to IEC Central Office for its publication. All other IEC Technical Committees must ensure that their own terms and definitions will not be in contradiction with those from the IEV. As a rule, the preparation of an IEV Part is entrusted by TC 1 to a particular technical committee i.e. either one of the other "semantic" committees or a product committee. In that case, the drafts are prepared by a Joint Working Group of this Technical Committee in co-operation with TC1 Secretariat, and (with the exception of the Committee Draft) are circulated under the control of TC1 and with a TC1 number. When the revision of one IEV Part is related to the work of several technical committees, its preparation is taken over by TC1. In these cases, TC1 does invite those other technical committees to join the Joint Working Group which is entrusted with the preparatory work. Whilst it is admitted that the terminology related to electrical safety is in the domain of TC/SCs holding a safety pilot function, it is the responsibility of TC1 to take care of the consistency of the IEV in the case of conflicting concepts coming from those TC/SCs. ® 6 / 8 SMB/4438/R The working procedures of TC1, in relation to its links with the other TCs and with IEC Central Office, are detailed in the document "ISO/IEC Directives, Supplement Procedures specific to IEC, Annex I". Two different procedures are used. New projects will follow the standard procedure with the CD, CDV and FDIS steps. Revision of existing parts, sectors of existing parts and their maintenance will follow the database procedure submitted to the evaluation and the verification steps by the IEV Coordinating Committee (IEVCC) and mainly developed on the web. B Business Environment B.1 General The establishment of a comprehensive and consistent terminology is a prerequisite for the development of the standards by the technical committees, and for their understanding and implementation by the final users (e.g. standards writers, product designers, test laboratory engineers, technical translators, legal and regulatory authorities, teachers and students of schools, colleges and universities). The terminology work carried out by TC 1 is aimed at providing all other technical committees with such an overall terminology, meant to be directly applicable, and to which they can refer, when necessary, for their own specific terminology requirements. Hence through a close co-operation between TC 1 and the other IEC Technical Committees. terminology work in the framework of the IEV has been carried out. In addition a number of IEC Technical Committees prepare glossaries of terms and definitions for the purpose of their own publications, which they wish to include in the "terms and definitions" clause of their own standards or technical reports. These TCs must ensure that their documents remain in coherence with IEV terminology. These concepts should not diverge from the original terms and definitions of the IEV. Terms and definitions of this kind may also contain concepts of general interest, which do not already appear in any Part of the IEV. The integration of these concepts in the IEV is of course desirable. However, their definitions will not, as a rule, adhere to strict terminology rules, and their consistency with the overall IEV cannot thus be guaranteed. In that case a preliminary study of these concepts by TC 1 members is necessary. 7 / 8 SMB/4438/R B.2 Market demand The market demands are those of the general public such as universities or users, or translators of technical documents of engineering companies or manufacturers, that may need precise reference in the matter of electrotechnical terminology. Moreover, there is a real demand from other TCs for finding the best way to define their terms. Because of that, the IEC Central Office and the IEC/TC1 will keep on jointly examining the best ways of promoting the IEV and improving the dissemination of its appropriate material (CD-ROM, on-line database of Electropedia, etc.). B.3 Trends in technology TC1 is conscious of the growing demand of the general public to gain access to the available reference on Internet. All the IEV terms are now available free of charge on the IEC website in a database form under the name of "Electropedia" or via the website "http://www.electropedia.org". Electropedia was announced in e-tech April 2007 and has been expanded to include several additional languages. It now allows searches for terms and definitions in English and French and for equivalent terms in Arabic, Chinese, Italian, German, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. The database is divided into 78 main subject areas and contains the complete set of the original International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) series of standards, which numbers over 20 000 entries. B.4 Market trends Nowadays, there is a rapid development of the electrical technology and, accordingly, an increasing worldwide demand of terminology for establishing a common business dialogue in order to manage and exchange technical product or system information. In accordance with this, terminology standards should be used to homogenize this vocabulary and to improve communications. B.5 Ecological environment Until now, the terminology standards did not consider environmental impact terms. Recently IEC/TC111 "Environmental standardization for electrical and electronic products and systems" circulated the first draft glossary of terms on environmental aspects. TC1 will support this development with the objective of preparing an IEV part for environment-related concepts. C System approach aspects The system approach is not associated to the building of the terminology. D Objectives and strategies (3 to 5 years) In the near future, the effort of TC 1 will be mainly centered on the revision and/or maintenance of Parts whose maintenance review date is 2009 or prior to 2009.Product TCs have already been consulted during 2010 and several Parts have also been confirmed. Improvement of the co-operation with the other technical committees, will be another aim. Those technical committees that do not carry out terminology work in co-operation with TC1 within the framework of IEV shall be invited to participate in this work.In this line, all TCs have been invited to use IEV as the reference terminology.However the best attitude is to promote co-operation between TC 1 and the technical committees at the earliest stage of development of the terms and definitions within these TCs. A new action is foreseen in order to increase the effective utilization of IEV by the complete translation of each definition in all the languages now used for lemma translation. 8 / 8 SMB/4438/R This action will be progressively developed directly by each involved National Committee. Another important issue is the joint work between TC 1 and IEC Central Office to manage and to upgrade the database using the electronic tools provided by IEC CO. E Action plan The action plan is: - The revision and/or maintenance of the different IEV Parts. In 2011 1Q after Seattle GM Parts with stability dates 2009, 2010, and 2011 will have a new stability date. - Elaboration of new IEV Parts on demand - Joint work between TC1 and IEC Central Office to apply the database procedure F Useful links to IEC web site IEC/TC 1 dashboard giving access to Membership, TC/SC Officers, Scope, Liaisons, WG/MT/PT structure, Publications issued along with their Stability Dates, Work Programme and similar information for SCs, if any. Name or signature of the secretary Mr. Miguel Angel ARANDA GÓMEZ