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IEC Member countries list

Full members:

Algeria
Argentina – Instituto Argentino de Normalización y Certificación (IRAM)
Australia – Standards Australia
Austria – Österreichischer Verband für Elektrotechnik (ÖVE)
Belarus
Belgium
Brazil – Comitê Brasileiro de Eletricidade, Eletrônica, Iluminação e Telecomunicações (Cobei)
Bulgaria
Canada – Standards Council of Canada
Colombia
Chile
China – Standardization Administration of China (SAC)
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Egypt
Finland
France – AFNOR
Germany – Deutsche Kommission Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik im DIN und VDE (DKE)
Greece
Hungary

India – Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS)
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy – Comitato Elettrotecnico Italiano (CEI)
Japan – Japanese Industrial Standards Committee
Libya
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia – Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rostekhregulirovaniye)

Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Korea – Korean Agency for Technology and Standards(KATS)
South Africa – South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)
Spain – Asociación Española de Normalización y Certificación (AENOR)
Sweden – Swedish Electrical Standard (SEK)
Switzerland – Swiss Electrotechnical Committee (CES)
Thailand
Turkey
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom – British Electrotechnical Committee (BEC), part of the British Standards Institution (BSI)
United States – American National Standards Institute(ANSI) (USNC/IEC); NEMA also helps to develop and promote IEC standards

Associate members (limited voting and managerial rights)

Albania
Bahrain
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Cuba
Cyprus
Estonia
Georgia
Iceland – Icelandic Standards (IST)

Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Latvia
Lithuania
Republic of Macedonia
Malta

Moldova
Montenegro
Morocco – COMELEC
Nigeria
Sri Lanka
Tunisia
Vietnam – Vietnamese National Committee Directorate for Standards and Quality (STAMEQ)

In 2001 and in response to calls from the WTO to open itself to more developing nations, the IEC launched the Affiliate Country Programme to encourage developing nations to become involved in the Commission's work or to use its International Standards. Countries signing a pledge to participate in the work and to encourage the use of IEC Standards in national standards and regulations are granted access to a limited number of technical committee documents for the purposes of commenting. In addition, they can select a limited number of IEC Standards for their national standards' library. Countries as of 2011 participating in the Affiliate Country Programme are: