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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.

News items in this issue include:

• NATEAC 2024 requests session proposals.
• Ten ESTA standards in public review.
• WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: electric motors; civil unmanned aircraft; hydrocarbon phasedown; general service lamps; portable fuel containers; table saw blade contact injuries; intelligent transportation systems; and EU eCall.
• ANSI public reviews: pin and sleeve plugs, receptacles, and cable connectors; outdoor measurement of SPL levels; welding inspector qualification; sound level meters; acoustic standards for certain teaching environments; statistical procedures for test methods; electronic data transfer of light output maintenance characteristics for solid state light sources; concepts and language of lighting; lighting maintenance; steel shelving; crash-testing methods for guardrail barriers and barrier posts; electrical commissioning specifications; bend testing for fiber optic cables; rotating electrical machines; signaling devices for hearing impaired; and portable electric luminaires.
• BSI public reviews: temporary electrical systems for entertainment and related purposes.
• New ANS projects: involute spur and helical gear teeth; acoustic impedance of ground surfaces; hearing protection devices; audible public warning devices; noise emission values of machinery, equipment, and products; vision, perception + acuity; lighting for people and buildings; distribution photometry of entertainment lighting luminaires using solid state sources; ray file format for describing emission properties of light sources; outdoor lighting design for people and environment; and IES standard file format for transfer of spectral data.
• Calls for members from ANS consensus bodies.
• Final actions on American National Standards: platform lifts and stairway chair lifts; ropes; IT metadata registries; USB attached SCSI 3; motor-operated hammers; and scaffold hoists.
• Notices of administrative withdrawal: symbols for electrical construction drawings.
• Draft IEC & ISO documents: digital audio; laser displays; touch and interactive displays; testing of electronic displays; quantum dot films and diffuser plates; batteries; hand-held motor-operated hammers; and hand-held concrete grinders and disc sanders.
• Recently published ISO & IEC documents: IT - coding of AV objects; system integrity levels; human body measurements for technological design; risk management; and safety of machinery - electrosensitive protective equipment.
• Editors.
• TSP meetings.
• Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program.

The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available at http://estalink.us/nn7a1.