Broadly speaking, standards represent all the compulsory rules (rules of law) ordered according to a "standard hierarchy" by order of importance. This summary is about standards in the strictest sense of the word, that is to say technical rules relating to the characteristics of a product or service and the way in which it is made and commercialised. They have progressively become the voluntary tools for organising markets, competition and the circulation of technical know-how.
Each country has its own national system of standardization. The central standardization organisation or the one which is the most representative of each country takes part in regional organisations such as the European Committee for Standardization, or international organisations like the International Organization for Standardization, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) or the International Telecommunication Union amongst...
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