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About Austrian Standards

Driven by Making Sense

Austrian Standards is the Austrian organisation for standardisation and innovation. We provide the platform for the development of standards, bring expertise from all over the world to Austria through our network and strengthen organisations when it comes to the effective application of standards. We have been ensuring that the wheels of industry turn smoothly for over 100 years.

What we do

Our business areas

Standards body

We coordinate the development of standards in Austria and collaborate with CEN and ISO.

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Sales

We distribute standards and digital tools for managing standards.

Certification body

We confirm the conformity of products, services, systems and persons with standards.

Publishing

We publish up-to-date, first-hand expertise in practical formats.

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Academy

We train specialists in the application of standards and on standardisation topics.

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Consulting

We support knowledge sharing between Austria and organisations in other countries.

4500+
Austrian standardisation experts
150+

specialist publications in our range

100+

annual training and education programmes

5,000+

certificates issued annually

Who we are

Our organisation

Dr Valerie Höllinger, MBA, MBL became Managing Director of Austrian Standards in January 2022 and has been a member of the Management Board since 2021.

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We are a not-for-profit association that has been facilitating a transparent and open process for the development of standards in Austria since 1920.

More about the association

Since 2008, our innovative service provider has been bringing expertise from standards around the world to Austria. It makes this knowledge accessible through further training and education programmes, publications, online tools, certification models and much more.

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Our technology unit was founded in 2018 and provides the infrastructure for the Group's operations, such as IT, equipment and premises.

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Our network

Austrian Standards is part of a network of partner organisations active in the fields of standardisation and innovation from 170 countries. We are involved in the work of the European organisations CEN and ETSI as well as the international standardisation organisation ISO, allowing us to bring expertise from all over the world to Austria.