body A multinational federation of professional and technical

organisations (or national groupings of such organisations)

concerned with information processing. From any one country,

only one such organisation - which must be representative of

the national activities in the field of information processing

- can be admitted as a Full Member. In addition, a regional

group of developing countries can be admitted as a Full

Member. On 1 October 1993, 46 organisations were Full Members

of the Federation, representing 66 countries.