Mori, TNS System 3, NOP, Communicate Research, ICM, Populus, ORB and YouGov are the founding members of the BPC, which is set to launch on November 15.
The organisation's principal concern is to ensure that consumers of survey results have an adequate basis for judging the reliability and validity of the results.
To do this, all members must make a record of information to post on their website two days after a survey. The information must include the sample and interviewing methods used, full data tables and who paid for the poll.
John Barter, former chairman of NOP and a former chairman of the Market Research Society, is to become president of the BPC.
Nine council members from backgrounds such as polling, journalism and academia, including former Guardian deputy editor David McKie, will serve on the sub-committee to investigate any questions raised under the rules of disclosure.
Barter said: "The organisations that are seeking membership of the BPC recognise the need for uniform standards of disclosure about how polls are conducted so that consumers of poll findings have an adequate basis for judging the reliability of the findings and all the proposed founding members enthusiastically support this new council.
"Once the council is established, readers of poll findings will have full access to information on how polls have been conducted, what questions were asked and how the data collected has been computed to produce the published results."
The BPC is in the process of recruiting members who are engaged in public opinion polling, which represent the views of all people within designated target groups, such as all adults or all voters.
This is to ensure all polls and surveys with the greatest emphasis placed upon them by the consumer are as accurate and impartial as possible.
The BPC is loosely based on the framework of the US National Council for Published Polls, which requires its members to adhere to a set of standards.
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