Initiated following the 1982 G7 Economic Summit of the Global Agreement on Tariffs and Trade(GATT)held in Versailles,France,and initially reporting directly to the G7 GATT,over the past 40 years VAMAS has delivered global collaboration in 45 technical areas leading to the publication of hundreds of international standards,development of new products and services,and dissemination of best practice to 1000s of organisations across the world.