In order to facilitate the standards development process and the exchange of information and documents between project team, maintenance team and working group members, the IEC Central Office has developed a Collaboration Tools Suite to meet the expressed needs of Technical Committee and National Committee Officers.

There will be one area per TC, with subfolders for the subcommittees and working groups. The access rights will be granted as follows:

• TC Officers: complete access to the TC area (working groups and subcommittees)
• SC Officers: complete access to the SC area (all working groups);
• Convenors and Experts: access to the working group areas where they are officially recorded as being experts.

Your current username and password are required to access this new service and if you do not have a login, you should contact your National Committee to obtain one.

The working group documents can be uploaded by all members and are immediately available to all members of the group.

In the folder "WG minutes and agendas", you may create a folder in which you will place the different documents for a working group meeting.

Please note that only working group documents should be made available. The Central Office will delete any other file such as CDV, agendas, etc. which are available on the IEC web site and should be accessed in the normal way. Also refer to AC/118/2001 for further details.

A discussion forum will allow members to create new topics and respond to other messages. Documents may be attached to the messages if necessary.

This section will allow assignment of tasks to a working group member or to indicate the issues which should be solved.

You may subscribe to a weekly e-mail notification which contains a summary of new documents, discussions, issues, etc.

A manual notification can also be sent to individuals or to a group of members for urgent documents, tasks or discussions.