Austrian Standards

Austrian Standards is the Austrian organisation for standardisation and innovation. It provides a platform for developing national, European and international standards, and has existed for more than a century.

It consists of the Austrian Standards Institute and a services company called Austrian Standards plus GmbH.

What Austrian Standards offers

• Standards development — coordinating the work of more than 5,600 experts from companies, authorities, test centres and interest groups.
• Standards sales — access to norms and regulations from around the world.
• Standards management — an online tool for organisations to keep their standards up to date.
• Training — courses from the Austrian Standards Academy.
• Certification — independent certification of products, people, services and management systems.
• Innovation support — a programme for bringing research and innovation projects to market.

Key facts

• Based in: Austria
• Divisions: Austrian Standards Institute and Austrian Standards plus GmbH