# ICEQC-GOV-008:2026 — Standards Approval and Publication Procedure

Status: Development

Version: Development Edition 0.1

Defines drafting, consultation, technical review, impartiality review, legal and intellectual-property review, approval and publication.

## 1 Publication gates **[REQUIREMENT]**

A normative document shall not be published until technical, impartiality, legal and intellectual-property, governing-body and publication-authorization approvals are complete and recorded.

Evidence expectation: Five approval records, final content hash and publication authorization.

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