User Self-Management | IEC Community knowledge base

This section describes the functionalities available to users to manage their own profile and access in the Expert Management System (EMS).

EMS allows users to independently maintain their personal information and access settings, without requiring administrative intervention for routine updates.

What all users can do

View and update your personal profile information
Manage your login and authentication settings
Access EMS according to your assigned roles
Keep your information up to date in a secure environment

What is not covered here
The following topics are not part of this section and are addressed separately:

Managing other users
Administrative role configuration
Advanced management or reporting features

1 Overview of User Self-Management

EMS provides a central place where users can:

manage their personal profile
control their access and authentication settings
view their roles, permissions, meetings, and training
access information about committees and participants

These actions are available according to your assigned roles and access rights.

📸 EMS Landing Page – Key EMS features & My Activities

🎥 User Self-Management overview

Short overview of what users can manage themselves from the landing page

2 Accessing your EMS profile

After logging in, you can access your profile:

from the “My Profile” card on the landing page

via the top navigation menu

The profile page displays your personal details and available actions.

📸 My Profile Page

My Profile page – Details section

3 Updating your personal information

You can update selected personal information directly in the EMS My Profile page’s Details section.

Editable vs read-only fields

Some fields are editable (e.g. middle name, contact details)
Some fields are read-only (e.g. first name, last name) to ensure consistency across IEC systems
Mandatory fields are clearly marked.

Changes are validated before being saved.
If required information is missing, a validation message is displayed.

Completing the Stakeholder Category field

IEC uses categories for purposes such as tracking the balance of stakeholders involved in standardization and conformity assessment work. These categories are explained in the table below:

Category	Title	Typically including:
A	Industry, Commerce & Finance	Manufacturers; producers; designers; service industries; distribution, warehousing and transport undertakings; utility; retailers; insurers; banks and financial institutions; business and trade associations; consultants who are engaged by the above parties; and users, who are individuals involved in using the type of product or system that is the topic of the technical committees, but who are not involved with the production, manufacture or distribution of that type of product or system.
B	Government	International and regional treaty organizations and agencies; national government and local government departments and agencies, and all bodies that have a legally recognised regulatory function.
C	Consumers	National, regional and international consumer representation bodies, independent of any organization that would fall into the ‘industry and commerce’ category, or individual experts engaged from a consumer perspective, such as retirees who are not representing other organizations but themselves
D	Labour	International, regional, national and local trades unions and federations of trades unions and similar bodies the main purpose of which is to promote or safeguard the collective interests of employees in respect of their relationship with their employers. This does not include professional associations.
E	Academic and research bodies	Universities and other higher educational bodies or professional educators associated with them; research institutions.
F	Independent testing/ certification/accreditation bodies	Testing, certification and accreditation bodies; organizations primarily devoted to assessing the use of standards. This category does not include non-independent testing, certification, or accreditation bodies, such as a laboratory that is a subsidiary of a manufacturer.
G	Non-governmental organization (NGO)	Organizations that usually operate on a charitable, not-for-profit or non-profit distributing basis and that have a public interest objective related to social or environmental concerns. This category does not include political parties or other bodies whose main purpose is to achieve representation in government or governmental bodies; This category does not include standard bodies but includes other professional bodies that do not fit other categories.
H	Standards body	Standardizing body recognized at national, regional or international level, that has as a principal function, by virtue of its statutes, the preparation, approval or adoption of standards that are made available to the public.