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What standards do
ISO standards:
- make the development, manufacturing and supply of products and services more efficient, safer and cleaner
- facilitate trade between countries and make it fairer
- provide governments with a technical base for health, safety and environmental legislation, and conformity assessment
- share technological advances and good management practice
- disseminate innovation
- safeguard consumers, and users in general, of products and services
- make life simpler by providing solutions to common problems
Discover ISO
- ISO's name
- Why standards matter
- What standards do
- Who standards benefit
- The ISO brand
- How to recognize an ISO standard
- The scope of ISO's work
- Examples of the benefits standards provide
- What's different about ISO 9001 and ISO 14001
- Why conformity assessment is important
- What "international standardization" means
- ISO's origins
- Who can join ISO
- How the ISO system is managed
- How the ISO system is financed
- How ISO decides to develop a standard
- Who develops ISO standards
- How ISO standards are developed
- ISO's international partners
- ISO's regional partners
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