ISO latest
At the beginning of June 2010 members of the ISO Technical Committee met in Toronto to finalise the revised draft of the international service standard for market, social and opinion research, ISO 20252.
Following this successful meeting, the draft revised standard will be issued for a 5-month consultation during which time all interested parties will be able to give their views on the proposed revisions. The consultation is due to be launched in the autumn this year, with the aim that the new standard will be finalised no later than the summer 2011.
The revision has focused on four main areas: updating the scope of the standard and quality management system; clarifying parts of the standard where queries have arisen by those countries and organisations that have fully implemented it; appraising the standard in light of new and emerging technologies; and incorporating any process requirements from the access panel standard, ISO 26362, not currently in the research standard.