The International Federation of Standards Users is an independent, non profit-making international association of national organizations for the application of standards, companies, professional and trade associations, and governmental agencies, concerned with the use of standards.
It was founded in 1974 when eleven national standards organizations met in Paris for an International Conference.
Objectives
The objectives of IFAN, inter alia, include:
- To promote uniform implementation of standards without deviation and develop solutions to standards users' problems without itself drawing up standards;
- To consolidate standards users' interests and views on all aspects of standardization and conformity assessment, and to cooperate with international and regional standardizing bodies (e.g. ISO, IEC, ITU, CEN, CENELEC, COPANT, etc.) in order to communicate user views to these organizations;
- To promote networking in the field of international standardization and conformity assessment.
Membership
IFAN is open to four categories of members: national, corporate, developing national and prospective corporate members. The national members are national standards user bodies; the corporate members are any companies, professional and trade associations, governmental agencies, which deal with the use of standards; developing national members are national standards user bodies with limited economic resources; and prospective corporate members are any companies, professional and trade associations, governmental agencies that deal with the use of standards and participate in IFAN activities with a view to becoming corporate members.
Contacts:
IFAN Secretariat
c/o ISO Central Secretariat
1, rue de Varembe
Case postale 56
CH-1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
Tel. + 41 22 749 03 31
Fax + 41 22 749 01 55