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Standards

Normen Deckblatt © Österreichisches Normungsinstitut

Products made in Austria are in high demand all over the world. The reasons for this are not only top quality and high customer expectations, but also standards and technical specifications. Here you can find everything you need to know about the standards which apply to imports from Austria.

 
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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 businesspartners, 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 Österreichisches Normungsinstitut
 
 
 
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