The Ministry of Industry, Commerce & Tourism represented by Testing & Metrology Directorate chaired the forty-eighth meeting of the Technical Council of the Gulf Standardization Organization (GSO) which has been held on Sunday 18th April 2021 virtually.  Bahrain delegation at the aforementioned meeting included Shaikh Hamad Bin Salman Al Khalifa, Assistant Undersecretary for Domestic and Foreign Trade, S.Ali Shubbar Jawad, Director of the Testing and Metrology, Ali AlHayki, Chief of the Metrology,  and Entesar Abdulaal  Chief of Standard Implementation and Quality Assurance.  The meeting came intended to discuss technical committees outcomes and mechanism of developing standardization work in the Member States. Where the council also recommended raising 228 draft standards and 38 Technical regulation for approval by the Ministerial Committee, as well as the strategy of the Gulf Standardization Organization for the years of  2021-2025.