ISO/TC 176 is Technical Committee 176 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), responsible for Quality management and quality assurance - the ISO 9000 family of standards. Overview The scope of the committee is ‘Standardization in the field of quality management (generic quality management systems and supporting technologies), as well as quality management standardization in specific sectors at the request of the affected sector and the ISO Technical Management Board’. Membership is open to any national body, in much the same way as membership in either of the two parent organizations. A member can be either participating (P) or observing (O) and the difference is mainly the ability to vote on proposed standards and other products. Other organizations participate as Liaison Members, some internal to ISO and IEC and some external. There is no requirement for any member body to maintain either (or any) status on all of the sub-committees. Sub-committees, working groups, task groups and other bodies can be created to deal with new situations or disbanded if the area of work is no longer relevant. Secretariat: Standards Council of Canada (SCC) ISO committees in liaison: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 40,ISO/TC 22, ISO/TC 34/SC 17, ISO/TC 37, ISO/TC 46/SC 11, ISO/TC 69, ISO/TC 85, ISO/TC 207, ISO/TC 210, ISO/TC 212, ISO/TC 213, ISO/TC 232, ISO/TC 224, ISO/TC 260, ISO/TC 267, ISO/TC 279, ISO/TC 286, ISO/TC304, ISO/TC 323, ISO/CASCO IEC committees in liaison: IEC/IECQ-CMC, IEC/TC 56 Organizations in liaison: AKMS, ASQ, CI, CLEPA, EAQUALS, EC, EOQ, FIDIC, IAEA, IAF, IDEA, ILAC, INLAC, IPC, IQNet, ITC, OAS, OIE, QuEST, SEMATECH, CQI, Venice Commission, WASPaLM, WHO Working Groups: ISO/TC 176/CSAG: Chair's Strategic Advisory Group ISO/TC 176/STTF: Spanish translation task force ISO/TC 176/TF : ISO 9001 Auditing Practices Group ISO/TC 176/TG 1: Communications and product support ISO/TC 176/TG 2: ISO 9001 Brand Integrity ISO/TC 176/TG 4: Future concepts in quality management Subcommittees Most work is done by subcommittees (SC) dealing with a particular field. The subcommittees usually have several working groups (WG). Large WGs can have task groups (TG). The Subcommittees are: ISO/TC 176/SC 1: Concepts and terminology ISO/TC 176/SC 2: Quality systems ISO/TC 176/SC 3: Supporting technologies ISO/TC 176/SC 1: Concepts and terminology ISO/TC 176/SC 1/TG 2 Consistency of use of concepts, terms and definitions in ISO/TC 176 standards ISO/TC 176/SC 1/TG 3 Harmonization of terms and definitions with other bodies ISO/TC 176/SC 1/WG 1