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"Standards are voluntarily applied documents with technical specifications based on the results of experience and technological research."
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AENOR
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The only standardisation and certification agency in Spain is AENOR (Spanish Standards Agency).
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The standards drawn up by the AENOR Standardisation Technical Committees are called UNE.
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The international standardisation agencies are:
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IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) for international standards relating to electronics and electrotechnology.
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ISO (International Organization for Standardization) for the remaining sectors.
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These standards are adapted by the different countries. In the case of Spain, some UNEs are adaptations of these standards. To find the ones related to ISOs, you need to look at the ICS or TC number that is included in the ISO number.
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At a European level, there are other agencies that draft standards, which must be fulfilled by the member countries and are therefore automatically incorporated into the UNEs:
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CEN (European Committee for Standardisation)
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CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization)
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ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute)
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They are all pay-to-view so you have to subscribe to them. If a member of the UOC community wants to access these documents, they must check the above pages and make sure of the standard that they need and then order it through the Library's Document Lending Service (SOD).
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Other standardisation agencies can also be highlighted, such as:
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ANSI (American National Standards Institute) draws up different standards, including NISO for telecommunications. Most of the standards refer to technical and technological fields: telecommunications, aeronautics, materials engineering, etc.
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ITU (International Telecommunications Union) can be consulted through the World Telecommunication Indicators Database Online database to which the UOC Library: has a subscription.
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IEEE on different aspects of technology or technology applied to such fields as education. It can be consulted via IEEEXplore to which the CBUC (Catalan University Library Association) has a subscription.
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You should also take into account the existence of open standards, i.e. public guides that everyone can access and which have been developed collaboratively. A few examples of organisations that draft these standards are:
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W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) drafts open standards on web design and architecture.
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OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is responsible for drafting open standards to aid preservation and ensure access to information, especially that generated in the web environment.
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Before ending this section, we should remind you that all individuals and organisations must comply with the legislation (see Section 6.1 "How to find legislation and jurisprudence"), but that they must also abide by international regulations and standards (Section 6.2 "How to find regulations and standards") be they general or specific to their field of work.
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