21-25 October 2013, in New Delhi (India), 77th IEC Annual Meeting was held. Host of all events was Indian Electrotechnical Committee (IEC INC) in cooperation with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Bosnia and Herzegovina was represented by Aleksndar Cincar, director of the Institute for Standardization, and Mirjana Šućur, Secretary General of BAKE.

BiH delegation attended the following meetings:

• Session of the IEC’s Committee for Standardization - SMB (Standardization Management Board), where the technical committees submitted reports on their work. New projects and new areas of work was presented at the session.

• Meeting of the Conformity Assessment Board - CAB
  The work of this body is particularly interesting due to IEC schemes and conformity assessment system. The establishment of a new IECRE system (IEC Renewable Energy), regarding planning, equipment and services related to the system of renewable energy was presented at the session.

• Workshop for industrializing countries

• Forum of the Secretaries and Chairmen’s of National Committees/Commissions of the IEC

At the 77th session of the IEC, reports on the activities of the IEC and working bodies were submitted, new members were elected also discussions were held about the implementation of the plan and cooperation with other international and regional organizations, etc.

Special attention was paid to “Power Quality” , where some countries have defined the plans for growth of power generation as well as the impact of renewable sources on the power quality. Renewable sources as a fastest growing energy sector will be the second largest source of electricity, while developing countries will increasingly use wind, solar and hydro power due to increased demand, but also in order to address the pollution issue. The costs of renewable energy are now far less than the costs of traditional energy sources like coal, natural gas and oil.