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National Standards Organisations

Standards are published documents that provide specifications and procedures that can be used to ensure the highest quality and safety requirements are adopted for the intended purpose of products, services and systems. Standards also help to make sure things will perform consistently and in the way that was intended. Because of different materials, requirements, customs and environments different areas around the world often adopt different standards to better suit their needs. Links to National Standard Organisations have been provided below to help obtain accurate information on the correct standards to be used.

Afghanistan – Afghan National Standards Authority (ANSA)

Albania – General Directorate of Standardization (DPS)

Algeria – Institut algérien de normalisation (IANOR)

Angola – Instituto Angolano de Normalização e Qualidade (ANIP)

Antigua – Antigua and Barbuda Bureau of Standards (ABBS)

Argentina – Instituto Argentino de Normalización (IRAM)

Armenia – National Institute of Standards and Quality (SARM)

Australia – Standards Australia (SA)

Austria – Austrian Standards Institute (ASI)

Azerbaijan – State Agency on Standardization, Metrology and Patents (AZSTAND)

Bahrain – Bahrain Standards & Metrology Directorate (BSMD)

Bangladesh – Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI)

Barbados – Barbados National Standards Institution (BNSI)

Belarus – Committee for Standardization of Belarus (BELST)

Belgium – The Belgian Electrotechnical Committee (CEB / BEC)

Belgium – The Belgium Institution for Standardisation (IBN)

Bhutan – Standards and Quality Control Authority (SQCA)

Bolivia – Instituto Boliviano de Normalización y Calidad (IBNORCA)

Bosnia – Institute for Standards, Metrology and Intellectual Property (BASMP)

Botswana – Botswana Bureau of Standards (BOBS)

Brazil – Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT)

Brunei – Construction Planning and Research Unit, Ministry of Development (CPRU)

Bulgaria – Bulgarian Institute for Standardization (BDS)

Cambodia – Department of Industrial Standards of Cambodia (ISC)

Cameroon – Division de la Normalisation et de la Qualité (CDNQ)

Canada – Standards Council of Canada (SCC)

Chile – Instituto Nacional de Normalizacion (INN)

China – China Standards Information Center (CSSN)

China – Standardization Administration of China (SAC)

Colombia – Instituto Colombiano de Normas Tecnicas y Certificación (ICONTEC)

Costa – Instituto de Normas Técnicas de Costa Rica (INTECO)

Croatia – Croatian Standards Institute (HZN)

Cuba – Oficina Nacional de Normalización (NC)

Cyprus – Cyprus Organization for Standards and Control of Quality (CYS)

Czech – Czech Standards Institute (CSNI)

Denmark – Dansk Standard (DS)

Dominica – Dominica Bureau of Standards (DBOS)

Dominican – Dirección General de Normas y Sistemas de Calidad (DIGENOR)

Ecuador – Instituto Ecuatoriano de Normalización (INEN)

Egypt – Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality Control (EO)

El – Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT)

Estonia – Estonian Centre for Standardisation (EVS)

Ethiopia – Quality and Standards Authority of Ethiopia (ETM)

Fiji – Fiji Trade Standards and Quality Control Office (FTSQCO)

Finland – Finnish Standards Association (SFS)

France – Association française de normalisation (AFNOR)

Georgia – National Agency for Standards, Technical Regulations and Metrology (GEOSTM)

Germany – Deutsches Institut für Normung and Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik (DIN)

Ghana – Ghana Standards Board (GSB)

Greece – Hellenic Organization for Standardization (ELOT)

Grenada – Grenada Bureau of Standards (GDBS)

Guatemala – Comisión Guatemalteca de Normas (COGUANOR)

Guyana – Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS)

Hong – Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC)

Hungary – Magyar Szabványügyi Testület (MSZT)

Iceland – Icelandic Council for Standardization (IST)

India – Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)

Indonesia – Badan Standardisasi Nasional (BSN)

Iran – Iranian National Standards Organisation (INSO)

Ireland – National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI)

Israel – The Standards Institution of Israel (SII)

Italy – Ente Nazionale Italiano di Unificazione (UNI)

Jamaica – Bureau of Standards, Jamaica (BSJ)

Japan – Japan Industrial Standards Committee (JISC)

Jordan – Jordan Institution for Standards and Metrology (JISM)

Kazakstan – Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (KAZMEMST)

Kenya – Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS)

Kuwait – Public Authority for Industry, Standards and Industrial Services Affairs (PAI)

Kyrgyzstan – State Inspection for Standardization and Metrology (KYRGYZST)

Lao – Department of Intellectual Property, Standardization and Metrology (DISM)

Latvia – Latvian Standard (LVS)

Lebanon – Lebanese Standards Institution (LIBNOR)

Liberia – Liberia Division of Standards (LDS)

Lithuania – Lithuanian Standards Board (LSD)

Luxembourg – Organisme Luxembourgeois de Normalisation (SEE)

Macedonia, – Standardization Institute of the Republic of Macedonia (ISRM)

Madagascar – Bureau de Normes de Madagascar (BNM)

Malaysia – Department of Standards Malaysia (DSM)

Malta – Malta Standards Authority (MSA)

Mauritius – Mauritius Standards Bureau (MSB)

Mexico – Dirección General de Normas (DGN)

Moldova – Department of Standardization and Metrology (MOLDST)

Morocco – Service de Normalisation Industrielle Marocaine (SNIMA)

Nepal – Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology (NBSM)

Netherlands – Nederlandse Norm (NNI) (NEN)

New – Standards New Zealand (SNZ)

Nicaragua – Dirección de Tecnología, Normalización y Metrología (DTNM)

Nigeria – Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON)

Norway – Standards Norway (Standard Norge) (SN)

Oman – Directorate General for Specifications and Measurements (DGSM)

Pakistan – Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA)

Palestine – Palestine Standards Institution (PSI)

Panama – Comisión Panameña de Normas Industriales y Técnicas (COPANIT)

Papua – National Institute of Standards and Industrial Technology (NISIT)

Paraguay – Instituto Nacional de Tecnología y Normalización (INTN)

Peru – Instituto Nacional de Defensa (INDECOPI)

Philippines – Bureau of Product Standards (BPS)

Poland – Polish Committee for Standardization (PKN)

Portugal – Instituto Português da Qualidade (IPQ)

Republic – Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS)

Romania – Asociatia de Standardizare din România (ASRO)

Russian – Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rostekhregulirovaniye)

Rwanda – Rwanda Bureau of Standards (RBS)

Saint – Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards (SLBS)

Saudi – Saudi Arabian Standards Organization (SASO)

Senegal – Association Sénégalaise de Normalisation (ASN)

Serbia – Institution for Standardization of Serbia and Montenegro (ISSM)

Seychelles – Seychelles Bureau of Standards (SBS)

Singapore – Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board (SPRING SG)

Slovakia – Slovak Standards Institute (SUTN)

Slovenia – Slovenian Institute for Standardization (SIST)

South – South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)

Spain – Asociación Española de Normalización y Certificación (AENOR)

Sri – Sri Lanka Standards Institution (SLSI)

Sudan – Sudanese Standards and Metrology Organization (SSMO)

Sweden – Swedish Standards Institute (SIS)

Switzerland – Swiss Association for Standardization (SNV)

Syrian – The Syrian Arab Organization for Standardization and Metrology (SASMO)

Taiwan – The Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI)

Tanzania – Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS)

Thailand – Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI)

Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards (TTBS)

Tunisia – Institut national de la normalisation et de la propriété industrielle (INNORPI)

Turkey – Türk Standardlari Enstitüsü (TSE)

Uganda – Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS)

Ukraine – State Committee for Technical Regulation and Consumer Policy of Ukraine (DSSU)

United – Emirates Authority for Standardization and Metrology (ESMA)

United – British Standards Institution aka BSI Group (BSI)

United – American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

Uruguay – Instituto Uruguayo de Normas Técnicas (UNIT)

Venezuela – Fondo para la Normalización y Certificación de la Calidad (FONDONORMA)

Vietnam – Directorate for Standards and Quality (TCVN)

Yemen – Yemen Standardization, Metrology and Quality Control Organization (YSMO)

Zambia – Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS)

Zimbabwe – Standards Association of Zimbabwe (SAZ)