ABNT Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas

ACA Australian Communications Authority

ACIF Australian Communications Industry Forum Limited

AENOR Asociación Española para la Normalización y Racionalización

AFAQ Association Française pour l'Assurance Qualité

AFNOR Association Française de Normalisation

AGA Australian Gas Association

AICQ Associazione Italiana Controllo Qualità

ANCE Asociación Nacional de Normalización y Certificación del Sector Eléctrico (Mexico)

ANSI American National Standards Institute (USA)

ASA American Standard Association

ASC Accredited Standards Committee

ASQ American Society for Quality

ASQUAL Association pour la promotion de l'Assurance Qualité dans la filière textile-habillement

ASTM International American Society for Testing and Materials (A standards development organization)

ATE Agrément Technique Européen

BDS Bulgaria Committee for Standardization and Metrology

BIN Belgisch Instituut voor Normalisatie

BIS Bureau of Indian Standards

BNSI Barbados National Standards Institution

BOBS Botswana Bureau of Standards

BPS Bureau of Product Standards (Philippines)

BSI British Standards Institution (UK)

BSMD Bahrain Standards and Metrology Directorate

BSN Badan Standardisasi Nasional (Indonesia)

BSS British Standard Specification

BSTI Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution

CEI Italian Electrotechnical Committee

CEN Comité Européen de Normalisation / European Committee for Standardization. Association régie par la loi belge du 25 octobre 1919, modifiée par celle du 6 décembre 1954 (statut analogue à celui de notre loi de 1901). Ses membres sont les organismes nationaux de normalisation des 19 pays de la Communauté Européenne élargie (UE + AELE); AFNOR est le membre français du CEN. La Commission Européenne confie au CEN les travaux de normalisation hors du secteur électrique)

CENELEC Comité Européen de Normalisation ELECtrotechnique / European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization

CES Swiss Electrotechnical Committee

CITI Classification Internationale Type, par Industrie, de toutes les branches d'activité économique (UN)

COFRAC Comité Français d'Accréditation

CONACYT Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (El Salvador)

CPSA Consumer Product Safety Association (Japan)

CSNI Czech Standards Institute

CSTE Classification des marchandises pour les Statistiques des Transports en Europe

CTCI Classification Type pour le Commerce International (Eurostat)

CTS Conformance Testing Services / Services d'essais de conformité

CUAP Common Understanding for Assessment Procedure

DGN Dirección General de Normas (Mexico)

DGQ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Qualität

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

DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung

DIN Deutsche Industrie Norm(en) / Norme industrielle allemande

DKD Deutsche Kalibrierstelle

DPC Directive Produits de Construction (Réglementation Européenne des Produits de Construction, Marquage CE)

DS Dansk Standard (Denmark)

DSM Department of Standards Malaysia

DSTU State Committee of Ukraine for standardization, metrology and certification

DZNM Croatia State Office for Standardization and Metrology

EAC European Accreditation of Certification

EAL European co-operation for Accreditation of Laboratories

ECS Estonian Centre for Standardization

EDI Echange de Données Informatisées

ELOT Hellenic Organization for Standardization

EOS Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality Control

EOTA European Organisation for Technical Approvals / Organisation Européenne pour les Agréments Techniques

ETAG European Technical Approval Guideline / Guide d'Agrément Technique Européen

ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute / Institut européen de normalisation des télécommunications

EVS National standards board of Estonia

FAS Financial Accounting Standards

FASB Financial Accounting Standards Board

FDIS First Draft International Standard

FONDONORMA Fondo para la Normalizacion y Certificación de la Calidad (Venezuela)

GAAS Generally Accepted Auditing Standards

GDBS Grenada Bureau of Standards

GENCOD Groupe d'Études de Normalisation et de Codification

GENDI Groupement d'Études et de Normalisation des Distributeurs (FR)

GENFA Groupement d'Études et de Normalisation des Fabricants (FR)

GNBS Guyana National Bureau of Standards

IAF Interantional Accreditation Forum

IBN Institut Belge de Normalisation (- Idem BIN)

IBNORCA Instituto Boliviano de Normalización y Calidad

ICD International Classification of Diseases - See also Health dictionary

ICONTEC Instituto Colombiano de Normas Técnicas y Certificación

ICSE International Classification of Status in Employment

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

ILAC International Laboratory Accreditation Co-operation

IMNC Instituto Mexicano de Normalización y Certificación

INDECOPI Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual (Peru)

INEN Instituto Ecuatoriano de Normalización

INN Instituto Nacional de Normalización (Chile)

INNOQ Instituto Nacional de Normalizaçâo e Qualidade (Mozambique)

INNORPI Institut National de la Normalisation et de la Propriété Industrielle (Tunisia)

INNTEX Instituto Nacional de Normalización Textil (Mexico)

INTECO Instituto de Normas Técnicas de Costa Rica

IOS International Organization for Standardization

IPQ Instituto Português da Qualidade

IRAM Instituto Argentino de Normalización

IS International Standard

ISBN International Standard Book Number / Numéro international normalisé des livres)

ISCED International Standard Classification of Education

ISIC International Standard Industrial Classification

ISO International Standardization Organization / Organisation internationale de normalisation

ISONET ISO information Network

ISOSTD ISO Standards

ISOTC ISO Technical Committee

ISP International Standardized Profiles

ISQ Israel Society for Quality

ISSN International Standard Serial Number / Numéro international normalisé des publications en série

ITA Industry Technical Agreement

ITTF Information Technology Task Force (ISO)

IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

IUPAP International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

JBS Jamaican Bureau of Standards

JCMA Japan Construction and Mechanization Association

JEA Japan Environment Association

JIS Japanese Industrial Standard

JISC Japanese Industrial Standards Committee

JISF Japan Iron and Steel Federation

JISM Jordan Institution for Standards and Metrology

JMSA Japan Marine Standards Association

KATS Korean Agency for Technology and Standards

KEBS Kenya Bureau of Standards

KS Korean Standards

KYRGYZST Kyrgyzstan State Inspection for Standardization and Metrology

LNE Laboratoire National d'Essais (FR)

LST Lithuanian Standards Board

LVS Latvia Latvian Standard

MBS Malawi Bureau of Standards

MFQ Mouvement Français pour la Qualité

MNCSM Mongolian National Centre for Standardization and Metrology

MOLDST Moldova, Republic of Department of Standards, Metrology and Technical Supervision

MSB Mauritius Standards Bureau

MSZT Magyar Szabványügyi Testület (Hungria)

NAMAS National Accreditation of Measurement and Sampling (GB)

NCSL National Conference of Standards Laboratories (USA)

NEK Norsk Elektroteknisk Komite (Norway)

NEN Nederlands Normalisatie-Instituut

NF Norme France

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA)

NNI Nederlands Normalisatie-Instituut

NORMEX Sociedad Mexicana de Normalización y Certificación

NSAI National Standards Authority of Ireland

NSF Norges Standardiseringsforbund (Norway) / Norwegian standards association

NSIQO Namibia Standards Information and Quality Office

NYCE Normalización y Certificación Electrónica (Mexico)

ON Österreichisches Normungsinstitut (Austria)

ONNCCE Organismo Nacional de Normalización y Certificación de la Construcción y Edifcación (Mexico)

OT Occupational Titles

ÖVE Österreichischer Verband für Elektrotechnik

PAQ Plan d'Action Qualité

PKN Polski Komitet Normalizacyjny (Poland)

PSB Productivity and Standards Board (Singapore)

PSI Pakistan Standards Institution

QA Quality Assurance

QC Quality Control

QUEST Quality Electrical Systems Test

SABS South African Bureau of Standards

SAI Standards Australia International Ltd.

SAZ Standards Association of Zimbabwe

SCC Standards Council of Canada

SDOs Standards Developing Organizations

SEE Service de l'Énergie de l'État (Luxembourg)

SFS Suomen Standardisoimisliitto / Finnish Standards Association

SIC Standard Industrial Classification

SII Standards Institution of Israel

SINAL Servizio Nazionale di Accreditamento Laboratori (IT)

SINCERT Servizio Nazionale di Certificazione (IT)

SIS Standardiseringen i Sverige

SIT Servizio nazionale di Taratura (IT) / National Calibration Service

SITC Standard International Trade Classification

SLSI Sri Lanka Standards Institution

SMIS Standards and Metrology Institute of the Republic of Slovenia

SNIMA Service de Normalisation Industrielle Marocaine

SNT Sistema Nazionale di Taratura (IT)

SNV Schweizerische Normen-Vereinigung

SNZ Standards New Zealand

STRI Icelandic Council for Standardization

SWEDAC Swedish Accreditation Body

TBS Tanzania Bureau of Standards (United Republic of Tanzania)

TISI Thai Industrial Standards Institute

TQM Total Quality Management

TSE Turkish Standards Institute

TTBS Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards

UKAS United Kingdom Accreditation Service

UkrNDISSI Ukrainian research institute for standardization, certification and informatics

UNBS Uganda National Bureau of Standards

UNI Ente Nazionale Italiano di Unificazione

UNIT Instituto Uruguayo de Normas Técnicas

VSI Vecteur Standard d'Information