Global standards celebrated [Archives:2002/42/Local News]

Each year on October 14, the members of ISO, IEC and ITU celebrate World Standard Day.
It’s way of paying tribute to the collaborative efforts of the thousands of experts worldwide who develop technical agreements that are published as international standards.
In a release press ISO president Mario Cortopassi, IEC president Sei-iehi Takayanagi and ITU secretary Genera Yoshio Utsumi says “standards help to ensure that goods and services have the same quality wherever they are made based on international consensus, standards help to achieve a variety of objectives such as ensuring safety and performance and provide a common technical foundation for producing goods, services, and systems anywhere”
Cortopassi adds, the advantage of the ‘one standard, one test-accepted everywhere’ is that it helps to foster the development of a global market for goods or services. In so doing, it makes products and services accepted in all countries.
Representatives of ISO, the IFC and ITU note that “by helping to make any one part of the global trading system more efficient, the three organizations can help to make the entire market that much more efficient. Ultimately, an efficient market benefits everyone: manufacture, consumers, governments, testing laboratories , and all other participants in the market”
In Yemen the Y.S.M.Q. will celebrate World Standards Day.

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