BS EN ISO 1101:2012 delayed

ISO 1101:2012 was published by ISO in April 2012.  You can buy a copy today by ordering it directly from ISO.

For member states of the European Union, the next stage for this standard is for it to be adopted as an EU standard by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), when it will become EN ISO 1101:2012.

I would have expected this to be a simple 'rubber stamping' exercise, but I have recently been told that this process started in June, and will take at least 5 months. I have no idea why it would take this long - it seems excessive even in terms of the glacial speed at which most standards organisations operate.

Members of the EU, such as the UK, will not adopt this standard until it has been approved as an EN standard. When it is an EN standard, BSI will then adopt it as a British standard with the title BS EN ISO 1101 (just as Germany will adopt it as a German standard called DIN EN ISO 1101, and so on). This process should be fairly rapid.

Due to the very slow movement at CEN, the earliest that the new BS EN ISO 1101 could appear would be very late in 2012, and it probably won't appear until 2013 (in which case it may well be titled BE EN ISO 1101:2013).

Most unfortuately, this means that the CD version of BS 8888:2011, which includes all the ISO standards that it refers to, and which should now be available from BSI, will include the previous version of ISO 1101 (BS EN ISO 1101:2005).