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March 2006
ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is an independent, nongovernmental membership organization and the world’s largest developer of voluntary international standards. ISO is made up of 162 member countries, who constitute the national standards bodies around the world, with a central secretariat based in Geneva, Switzerland.
February 2014
The Saudi Arabian Standards Organization, set up in 1972 (1392 AH), has responsibility for determining and enforcing approved standards of services, facilities, utilities, and products within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
December 2017
ISO/IEC 27001 is an international standard on how to manage information security. The standard was originally published jointly by the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission in 2005 and then revised in 2013.
May 2014
The ESMA was established as the sole standardization body in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) under Law No. 28/2001. The board of directors chaired by H.E. Dr. Rashid Ahmed Bin Fahad, the Minister of Environment and Water in the UAE, comprises representatives of the main parties involved in standardization in the UAE. The board is responsible for laying down policies and adopting all of the procedures necessary to ensure the efficient performance of assignments
April 2015
The JSMO was established as a public organization with financial and administrative autonomy in accordance with the Standards and Metrology Law No. 15 for 1994, amended in accordance with Law No. 22 for 2000. Prior to that, the organization had been one of the directorates in the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
December 2015
Standardization activities in Kuwait began in 1967, within a unit of the Ministry of commerce & Industry which became a Department after the law no. 128 for standardization was issued in 1977. The Department was transferred to the Public Authority for Industry in 1996 and became a sector for Standards and Industrial services including two Departments, one for standards & Metrology and the other for quality laboratories.
April 2016
Dubai Accreditation center (DAC) is an accreditation body that complies with the requirements of ILAC (International Laboratories Accreditation Cooperation) and is a full member/MRA signatory. ILAC is the international organization for accreditation bodies operating in accordance with ISO/IEC 17011 and involved in the accreditation of conformity assessment bodies including calibration laboratories (using ISO/IEC 17025), testing laboratories (using ISO/IEC 17025).
January 2015
ISO 14001 was developed to provide a management system to help organizations reduce their environmental impact. The standard provides the framework for organizations to demonstrate their commitment to the environment…
January 2015
The ISO 45001 standard is internationally accepted as a method of assessing and auditing occupational health and safety management systems. This standard was developed by leading trade and international standards…