• The stage at which a Working Draft of the Standard is developed
• Working Draft may be developed by a Technical Secretary (TS) or Working Group (WG)
• If the proposed standard is available in other Standards bodies, working draft is prepared by TS but if not available in any other source i.e national, regional or international, the WG may be formulated to prepare a working draft.

A working draft is submitted to respective Technical Committee (TC) for discussion and approval to the next stage.

• Once the document has passed the stage of TC, it will be circulated to public for comments.
• The document is circulated to interested parties and made available at the Bureau’s website for the period of 60 calendar days.

• The final draft standards are submitted to Editing Committee for correctness of layout, grammar, spelling, cross-references, paragraph numbering, etc. as per Guideline for the structure and drafting of Zanzibar National Standards.

• The standards are submitted to Board of Directors (BoD) of ZBS for approval after satisfying itself that correct procedures have been followed.

• All approved standards from BoD are then submitted to the Minister responsible for trade for gazetting the standards as Zanzibar National Standards.
• The gazetted standards are included in standards catalogue and published at the bureau’s website.