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Albert KOZLOWSKI: Bureau de normalisation de la sidérurgie (French steel standards office)
INTRODUCTION
In the context of the Single Market and the free movement of products, standardization is a fundamental element of European trade, not only in terms of product definition, but also in terms of the methods used to assess the quality criteria used to define products (test methods - sampling, inspection documents, etc.).
In the field of steel standardization, an organization was created in 1986: the ECISS fr
(European Committee for Iron and Steel Standardization)
which currently has 31 technical committees.At international level, a standards organization exists, the ISO en
(International Standardization Organisation)
which like the CEN en(European Committee for Standardization)
covers all aspects of standardization and whose technical committee TC17 is responsible for steel standardization.In France, standardization is the responsibility of the AFNOR en
(French Standards Association)
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