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- Standards Global
Standards Global are an official global distributor of BSI British Standards, and are able to provide customers
with an extensive range of British Standards essential to their business.
Our services cover many regions of the world with multilingual services for our international customers. We also provide a series of additional supporting books and DVD's.
Over recent years British Standards has become a pre-requisite to worldwide trade. A very large percentage of export is influenced by the European and International Standards business, with all European Union standards automatically adopted as British Standards. Consumers too, value the reassurance of safety and quality that conformity to British Standards means.
BSI British Standards works with a wide range of UK and international businesses.
BSI involve individual UK businesses and trade associations in the production of formal British, European and international standards to ensure that relevant products, processes, new technologies and services take full account of technical and commercial needs, cut red tape and reduce barriers to trade.
BSI provides specific support to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
SMEs can achieve real benefits from standards. Used to best advantage, standards can:
- Eliminate inefficiencies in resource allocation
- Improve speed to market and reduce risk
- Enable effective competition with larger organizations.
BSI British Standards is recognised as the UK National Standards Body (NSB) by the UK Government. The UK NSB role is performed by BSI British Standards on behalf of the UK Government and principally involves the representation of the UK in European and International standards fora. Some British Standards (BSs) go on to become European or International standards (ENs or ISOs). The world's most famous series of standards, ISO 9000, for example, began life as a British standard.
An important aspect of the work of BSI British Standards is the creation of European Standards (ENs). The EU relies heavily on the standardization to reduce technical barriers to trade for products and services whilst assuring appropriate levels of safety and performance. BSI provides a means to participate in European standards activities through the two European standards organizations:
- The European Committee for Standardization (CEN)
- The European Committee for Electro-technical Standardization (CENELEC).
European Standards are usually adopted as British Standards. BSI British Standards is also a leading member of the worldwide federations of national standards bodies:
- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
- The International Electro-technical Commission (IEC).
ISO and IEC represent 148 countries worldwide. They promote the development of standardization to aid international exchange of goods and services and BSI British Standards decides whether to adopt these international standards for the UK.
BSI works in partnership with other countries and their standards bodies, for example in twinning or Technical Assistance programmes organised through ISO and CEN.
