International Organization for Standardization

Those International organization for standardization, Abbreviation ISO, is the international combination of Standardization organizations out over 150 countries. International compiles the ISO Standards (engl. ) within all ranges with exception that Electrical connection and that (z.B. or Calling cards), klassifikatorische (z.B. Laendercodes how.de.nl.jp) and procedure standard (z.B. Quality management after ISO 9000).

International standards are published in English. The English designation of the ISO reads International Organization for Standardization. The national standardization organizations are responsible for translations of international standards.

Each member of the ISO represents a country, and from each country there can be only one member. That (DIN) is since member of the ISO for the Federal Republic of Germany.


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The abbreviation ISO

Translations of the name International organization for standardization result in different abbreviations, dependently on the language, for example ION into German, IOS in English, OIN in French. Therefore one selected the uniform abbreviation ISO, which descends from the Greek word "isos", which means "directly". Thus the abbreviation is uniform in each country and each language.


Important standards

Some important Standards or the ISO is

See also

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