1974
The Basel Committee, established by the central-bank Governors of the Group of Ten countries at the end of 1974, meets regularly four times a year. It has about thirty technical working groups and task forces which also meet regularly.
1988
The 1988 Capital Accord
1997
Development of the "Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision" Publication 75 for Credit Risk management
1999 (June)
The Committee issued a proposal for a New Capital Adequacy Framework to replace the 1988 Accord.
1999 (October)
The Committee developed the "Core Principles Methodology".
2001 (January)
Issue of a proposal for a New Basel Capital Accord
Pillar 1: Minimum capital requirements, which seek to refine the measurement framework set out in the 1988 Accord
Pillar 2: Supervisory review of an institution's capital adequacy and internal assessment process
Pillar 3: Market discipline through effective disclosure to encourage safe and sound banking practices

2001 (April)
Committee initiated a QIS -Quantitative Impact Study

Basel Capital Accord

2001 (June)
Update on the New Basel Capital Accord ( June 2001)
2001 (September)
Work update on the New Capital Accord ( September 2001)
2001 (November)
QIS 2.5 Undertaken to gain Industry Feed-Back

Potential Modifications

2001 (December)
Revised Approach ( December 2001)

The Relationship between banking supervisors and Bank's External Auditors


2002 (May 13)
Workshop Basel II : An Economic Assessment on 13 May 2002

Comments received on the second Consultative Package

2002 (June 6)
Operational Risk Data Collection Exercise on 6 June 2002
2002 (June 14)
Updated Mandate of the Joint Forum on 14 June 2002
2002 (July 1)
Quantitative Impact Study 2.5 (QIS) 1 July 2002

Results of QIS 2

2002 (July 10)
Agreement on a number of Important Issues on 10 July 2002
2002 (October 1)
Quantitative impact Survey ( QIS3 )
2002 (December 20)
Banks will have to submit their Findings
2004
The Basel Committee envisions an implementation date of 2005 for the new Accord.