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Standards

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Key requirements for products coming onto the Austrian market are regulated by standards and testing methods are used to confirm adherence to these requirements.  Here you can find all the information you need about standards in Austria, ensuring your future export success.

 
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Standards are ...

To put it simply, standards document the state of the art and contain generally accepted specifications for products and services.

They define, for example

  • Product requirements
    to ensure fitness for use, compatibility, safety, health and environmental protection
  • Procedures and processes
    e.g. on the expert performance of tasks or the awarding of contracts
  • Test and measurement methods
    for proving compliance with limit values or requirements
  • Terms and definitions
    to facilitate communication with business partners, customers, testing institutes and authorities on the basis of harmonized terminology

As a result, standards

  • facilitate the comparability of products and services
  • ensure rational planning and production processes
  • reduce routine work, and
  • dismantle barriers to trade – at a national, European and international level – and
  • thereby facilitate access to markets


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Author Dr. Johannes Stern , Source Austrian Standards Institute
 
 
 
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