The Fifteenth Meeting of the SMIIC Board of Directors (BOD) was held in Istanbul, Republic of Turkey on 25th of November 2017 and General Secretariat hosted the meeting. The meeting was attended by the representatives of the Board members.
During the meeting, Standardization Management Council (SMC) Members and Accreditation Council (AC) Members were elected from applicant SMIIC Member States. The new membership applications of Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, State of Kuwait (General Secretariat shall receive the final confirmation from the State of Kuwait regarding membership) and State of Qatar were welcomed and approved by the Board of Directors which will be effective from 01 January 2018.
Board of Directors welcomed the information given in the presentation of the Chair of the Metrology Council and principally approved the revised MC TOR. Election of Dr. Mustafa ÇETİNTAŞ from Republic of Turkey as and Mr. Zijad DZEMIC as Vice-Chair of the Metrology Council for the 2018-2020 term was approved by the Board of Directors.
The nine (9) Member States elected to the Standardization Management Council (SMC) for the 2018 – 2020 term, beginning on 01 January 2018 and ending on 31 December 2020 are :
- People's Democratic Republic of ALGERIA
- Republic of CAMEROON
- Islamic Republic of IRAN
- Republic of IRAQ
- Hashemite Kingdom of JORDAN
- Islamic Republic of PAKISTAN
- Kingdom of SAUDI ARABIA
- Republic of TURKEY
- UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
The twelve (12) Member States to elected to the management of the Accreditation Council (AC) for the 2018 – 2020 term, beginning on 01 January 2018 and ending on 31 December 2020 are:
- People's Democratic Republic of ALGERIA
- Republic of CAMEROON
- Arab Republic of EGYPT
- Islamic Republic of IRAN
- Hashemite Kingdom of JORDAN
- Kingdom of MOROCCO
- Islamic Republic of PAKISTAN
- Kingdom of SAUDI ARABIA
- Republic of SUDAN
- Republic of TUNISIA
- Republic of TURKEY
- UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
