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Kevin Donnelly, Vice President and General Manager of SNOMED International, today told the SNOMED User Group about the plan to create a new SNOMED Standards Development Organization (SDO), which has been approved by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) Board of Directors. The SDO is to be responsible for all components of SNOMED CT needed for International use. National Centres will develop extensions for local use. The plan will be implemented over the next 6-12 months. The CAP will continue to provide services for the new SDO for a transition period of up to 5 years. The aim is to make SNOMED CT freely available throughout the world and to encourage international uptake, collaboration, alignment, contributorship and the ability to meet local terminology needs.