The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and its Procedures and Standards Administration (PSA) department wish to remind all ANSI-accredited U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) Administrators to International Organization for Standardization (ISO) activities that a response to the recently distributed e-mail—which contained the 2025 Procedural Compliance Form/2024 TAG Annual Report Notice—must be returned no later than January 31, 2025, to the ANSI PSA department ([email protected]).
“ANSI-Accredited U.S. TAGs to ISO and ISO/IEC activities serve an essential role in assuring strong representation of U.S. interests in these international activities. ANSI’s TAG annual report and compliance certification process is one of the checks-and-balances built into the system to promote its integrity,” explained Fran Schrotter, ANSI SVP and COO.
The 2025 ANSI-Accredited U.S.TAG to ISO annual compliance form e-mail is combined with the 2024 TAG Annual Report to facilitate the annual compliance notification process and the ISO and ISO/IEC TAG annual report submission. Failure to return a completed 2025 Compliance Form and a 2024 TAG Annual Report, along with the current TAG membership roster, by January 31, 2025, may jeopardize the TAG’s accreditation status and an organization's status as the related ANSI-Accredited U.S. TAG Administrator. If there is a reason for delay, please inform ANSI’s PSA department in writing before the deadline of January 31, 2025.
Related Webinar
We invite and encourage TAG Administrators to register for and join the following webinar, during which ANSI staff will review the 2025 ANSI International Procedures, 2025 TAG Annual Compliance Form, and 2024 TAG Annual Report:
Questions may be submitted in advance of the webinar to [email protected].
Further Information
Please refer to sections 2.5.5 Maintenance of Accreditation and 2.5.5.2 Annual Reporting of the ANSI International Procedures (www.ansi.org/internationalprocedures). Additionally, please note that the 2025 edition of the ANSI International Procedures includes several revisions, described below.
Parts 1 and 2 must be submitted by the TAG Administrator of each separately accredited U.S. TAG to ISO. A list of the separately accredited U.S. TAGs is available at www.ansi.org/isotags. (Please do not submit a form for a TAG that is not separately accredited.)
Compliance Requirements
All ANSI-accredited U.S. TAG Administrators to ISO are encouraged to read the 2025 edition of the ANSI International Procedures to ensure familiarity with ANSI's procedural requirements. Please note that Annex B of the ANSI International Procedures applies to all ANSI-accredited U.S. TAGs and Annex C, the Model Code of Conduct for Participation on an ANSI-Accredited U.S. TAG applies to all TAGs accredited under Annex A (Model procedures) and is available for use by all others. All ANSI-accredited U.S. TAGs are required to have already incorporated a Code of Conduct into day-to-day operations.
Any revisions to a TAG’s procedures must be submitted by the TAG Administrator for review and reaccreditation by the ANSI Executive Standards Council (ExSC). Revised procedures are to be submitted to [email protected] in strike-through-underline format and accompanied by a summary of the changes.
Review and Submission Process
Please be sure that procedures fully comply and reflect current requirements before returning the form. Questions and extension requests should be directed to [email protected].
The ANSI Executive Standards Council (ExSC) wishes to thank all ANSI-accredited U.S. TAG Administrators to ISO for their efforts throughout the year to assure that the U.S. has a strong and effective voice in international standardization activities.