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standard - One test Accepted everywhere  "Standards and tests go hand in hand and are key to the development of the global market," said the leaders of the standards development organizations in their 2002 joint message signed by ISO President Mario Cortopassi, IEC President Sei-ichi Takayanagi and ITU Secretary-General Yoshio Utsumi. Standards help ensure goods and services have the same quality wherever they are made. 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. Together, standards and their accompanying tests, act as a "common confidence-building foundation" for exchanging goods and services between buyers and sellers in the global market. "The combination of standards and conformity assessment serve the market by helping to lower technical barriers to trade - which results in lower manufacturing costs - and to raise the level of confidence between buyers and sellers," said the three leaders. "Relevant international conformity assessment mechanisms, standards, guides and recommendations could also help to underpin Mutual Recognition Agreements at different levels." In their conclusions, the ISO, the IEC and ITU leaders said "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: manufacturers, consumers, governments, testing laboratories and all other participants in the market". The role of this Register and its’ website facility, is to commercially record those standards achieved by our listings, promote their abilities according to their certification and to introduce them to the larger marketplace. The Register continues to remain unique in both its’ independence and its objectives. |