ISO's global relevance policy

The required characteristic of an international standard is that it can be used and implemented as broadly as possible by affected industries and other stakeholders in markets around the world.

The information in the documents below is intended to provide practical and easy-to-understand guidance to ISO committee leaders as well as to ISO national body delegates and experts to assist them in their implementation of the concept of global relevance in the development of ISO International Standards.

• ISO Policy on global relevance (PPT, 461 kB)
• ISO/TMB policy and principle statement - Global relevance of ISO technical work and publications (PDF, 82 kB)
• ISO/TMB implementation guidance - Global relevance of ISO technical work and publications (PDF, 71 kB)
• Guidance on the implications of the ISO Global Relevance policy for CEN standardization (PDF, 171 kB)
• Key messages for committee leaders and participants (PDF, 33 kB)