ON Austrian Standards Institute
Heinestrasse 38
1020 Vienna Austria
Phone: (+43 1) 213 00-0
Fax: (+43 1) 213 00-818
E-mail: office(at)on-norm.at
- founded in 1920
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Austrian Standards
(ONORMEN) are a recognized and acknowledged sign of quality. In many fields
Austrian activities in standardization are in the forefront - on a European
and international scale.
Legal Foundations
The legal foundation/basis for the activities of the Austrian Standards
Institute (ON) is the Austrian Federal Act on Standardization of 1971
(BGBl. Nr. 240/1971) (Federal Law Gazette Nr. 240/1971).
Based upon the Federal Act
on Standardization of 1971 the aim of the activities of the "Association
Austrian Standards Institute", as a non-profit organization, is to
increase the efficiency, in terms of quality, of economic actions, of
the compatibility of products and services as well as the facilitation
of the national, European and international exchange of goods and services
with due consideration of economic and environmental aspects.
Austrian experts are actively
involved in European standardization activities. Austria is represented
in about 90 percent of the Technical Committees of CEN (CEN/TCs. A number
of Secretariats of different European Committees are being held by the
Austrian Standards Institute (ON), such as a Working Group (WG 5 "Feeding,
drinking, sucking and similar functions") of TC 252 " Child
use and care articles". Among others, CEN/ TC 252 establishes uniform
European requirements for soothers (pacifiers).
Austria is a skiing nation,
and that is also reflected in its standardization efforts. International
standards for Alpine skiing, snowboards, bindings and ski boots are being
prepared with Austrian participation or leadership (such as ISO/TC 83/SC
4 "Skis and Snowboards" ) within the relevant committees of
the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).Safety (Keyword:
proper release setting of bindings) and compatibility represent the core
responsibilities.
facilitates direct access to more than 10.000 Austrian Standards (ONORMEN),
including all European Standards, to around 12.000 International Standards
(ISO) and to 600.000 normative documents from all over the world;
Some 6.600 experts from companies,
public authorities, science, consumer groups and testing laboratories
work in around 200 Technical Committees of ON, with about 850 Subcommittees
and Working groups.
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