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The development of international standards undergo through six stages including:<ref>[http://www.iso.org/iso/about/how_iso_develops_standards.htm Detailed stages of the development of International Standards]</ref>

* Stage 1: Proposal stage- A proposal is submitted indicating that a new international standard is necessary and needs to be approved by majority of the TC or subcommittees. If the proposal is approved, a project leader will be chosen.

* Stage 2: Preparatory stage

* Stage 2: Preparatory stage- The TC/SC will convene the Working Group of the project to prepare several working drafts until the best technical solution is satisfactorily developed. The first draft will be forwarded to the parent committee to build consensus.

* Stage 3: Committee stage

* Stage 3: Committee stage- The draft is registered with ISO Central Secretariat and it will be distributed for comments. In this stage, the participating members of the TC may require successive committee drafts until a consensus technical content is developed. A Draft International Standard (DIS) will be finalized.

* Stage 4: Enquiry stage

* Stage 4: Enquiry stage- The ISO Central Secretariat distributes the DIS to the ISO bodies for comments and voting within five months to be approved as the Final Draft International Standard (FDIS). If it is not approved by the majority (2/3) of the participating members do not approve the DIS it will be returned to the original TC/SC to work on the technical reasons based on the negative feed backs for reconsideration.

* Stage 5: Approval stage

* Stage 5: Approval stage-The ISO Central Secretariat will distribute the FDIS to be approved as an International Standard by 2/3 majority votes from the ISO member bodies.

* Stage 6: Publication stage

* Stage 6: Publication stage- If necessary minor editing will be done on the final text and it will be sent to ISO Central Secretariat and publish it as ISO International Standard.

ISO publishes around 1100 new standards every year. More than 18,500 international standards was already developed and published by the organization in different subjects.

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 The development of international standards undergo through six stages including:<ref>[http://www.iso.org/iso/about/how_iso_develops_standards.htm Detailed stages of the development of International Standards]</ref>
 * Stage 1: Proposal stage- A proposal is submitted indicating that a new international standard is necessary and needs to be approved by majority of the TC or subcommittees. If the proposal is approved, a project leader will be chosen.
-* Stage 2: Preparatory stage
+* Stage 2: Preparatory stage- The TC/SC will convene the Working Group of the project to prepare several working drafts until the best technical solution is satisfactorily developed. The first draft will be forwarded to the parent committee to build consensus.
-* Stage 3: Committee stage
+* Stage 3: Committee stage- The draft is registered with ISO Central Secretariat and it will be distributed for comments. In this stage, the participating members of the TC may require successive committee drafts until a consensus technical content is developed. A Draft International Standard (DIS) will be finalized.
-* Stage 4: Enquiry stage
+* Stage 4: Enquiry stage- The ISO Central Secretariat distributes the DIS to the ISO bodies for comments and voting within five months to be approved as the Final Draft International Standard (FDIS). If it is not approved by the majority (2/3) of the participating members do not approve the DIS it will be returned to the original TC/SC to work on the technical reasons based on the negative feed backs for reconsideration.
-* Stage 5: Approval stage
+* Stage 5: Approval stage-The ISO Central Secretariat will distribute the FDIS to be approved as an International Standard by 2/3 majority votes from the ISO member bodies.
-* Stage 6: Publication stage
+* Stage 6: Publication stage- If necessary minor editing will be done on the final text and it will be sent to ISO Central Secretariat and publish it as ISO International Standard.
 ISO publishes around 1100 new standards every year. More than 18,500 international standards was already developed and published by the organization in different subjects.