Quality and Standards in Electronics

ISO

9000

39

3.

1

Interoperability

of

standards

As the British Standards Institution (BSI) Secretary, Mr Geoff Strawbridge,

said in an article entitled 'Setting the Scene for European Standards, Testing

and Certification Post-1992' standards are as international as the markets

they serve.

Currently, the main producers of national standards in western Europe

are:

• the UK (BSI);

• Germany - Deutsch Institut fur Normung e.v. (DIN);

• France - Association

Francaise de Normalisation (AFNOR).

Outside Europe the most widely used standards come from:

• the USA - American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

• Canada - Canadian Standards Association (CSA).

Although the