Information Centre

Information Centre provides information services to industries, individuals, corporations and professional institutions to meet their needs. The services are offered to promote industrial innovation and development through the provision of accurate, relevant and timely scientific and technological information. The Information centre is currently undergoing major development, to provide such services effectively. These services are illustrated below:

• Technical Enquiries: The information centre acts as a national clearing house for information on standards, technical regulations, conformity assessment procedures and related matters. 
• Bibliographic Database Services: The information centre at BSMD provides database on bibliography of International and Foreign standards to industry, government agencies, and exporters.
• WTO-TBT Enquiry Point: The Ministry of Commerce has designated BSMD as the enquiry point under the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). According to the Agreement, the Enquiry Point issues notifications on proposed standards ,Technical Regulations and Conformity Assessment Procedure in Bahrain to WTO, Geneva. Parties in other member countries wishing to make comments on any notification can obtain copies of the text from the Enquiry Point.

As a service to local industries, the information centre is considering to develop a membership service to offer its search and bibliographic database services in the near future.