ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
The ISO 3166 standard is maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA), located at the ISO central office in Geneva, Switzerland. Originally it was located at the Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) in Berlin, Germany. Its principal tasks are:
- To add and to eliminate country names (respectively, country subdivision names) and to assign code elements to them;
- To publish lists of country names (respectively, country subdivision names) and code elements;
- To maintain a reference list of all country code elements and country subdivision code elements used and their period of use;
- To issue newsletters announcing changes to the code tables;
- To advise users on the application of ISO 3166.
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