Title: International Electric Standards Act
Category: Free Trade
Strength: Mild
The World Assembly,
Noting that technologies utilizing an electric current as an integral part of their operation are widely used by most member nations,
Concerned by the dearth of international standards concerning electric currents and the plugs and sockets which convey them,
Annoyed by the frequent need to bring travel adapters while traveling abroad, due to incompatible power plugs and/or sockets between different nations,
Worried at the potential of some technologies to be rendered unusable or unsafe in different nations, due to varying national standards concerning electrical currents and equipment, and of the ability of nations to engage in protectionism by intentionally setting those standards in a manner which discourages electrical equipment, technology, and other manufacturers from elsewhere from participating in their domestic market(s),
Alarmed by the fact that rapid changes in standards concerning electrical currents can suddenly leave essential technologies, and the facilities which rely on them, such as hospitals, biological laboratories, and governmental agencies, practically useless and/or dangerous,
Wishing to rectify this tourist, trade, and technologically unfriendly situation, and to avoid any apocalyptic scenarios,
Establishes the International Electrical Standards Commission (IESC) as an organ of the WA Scientific Program, and tasks it with the following:1. developing uniform standards for electrical equipment (wires and wiring, resistors, motors, plugs and sockets, circuit breakers, etc.), taking into account how the standards relate to one another, including, but not limited to:
Strongly Encourages all member nations and industries to adopt the standards set forth by the IESC, doing so as quickly as possible, and in the manner(s) they find most effective.
a. their purposes (residential, commercial, industrial, medical, etc.)
2. developing uniform standards for electrical current(s) (in the way of the maximum and minimum measures and types of current mentioned above), given certain electrical equipment and the standards with which it complies, and
b. their maximum and minimum measures and types of current to be handled (amperage, voltage, wattage, alternating or direct, frequency, etc.),
c. the materials which they are composed of, in what quantities, and how the material(s) is/are arranged (i.e. their design), and
d. the manner in which equipment is colored to distinguish it from other equipment,
3. annually conducting and publishing research into whether or not the any of the above standards should be adjusted, and whether or not a new standards or standards should be created, given an ever-changing technological landscape, and acting accordingly, and