Attendees at the 2009 IEC General Meeting heard about the new database set up with information on national adoptions of IEC standards. Since then, records in the database have been consolidated with further data supplied by IEC NCs and participants in the IEC Affiliate Country Programme, according to the IEC. The database contains more than 130,000 references of national adoptions and is searchable by IEC publication reference, national reference, country and TC.Read more from the IEC.