ISO 15583:2005 provides the list of existing maritime standards of ISO and eight (8) shipbuilding nations in the world (The People's Republic of China, Germany, India, Japan, The Republic of Korea, Poland, Russian Federation and The United States of America) as of the year 2002 by classifying the maritime standards of the aforesaid organization and nations into the codes that correspond to the existing organization of subcommittees of ISO/TC8.