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ESTONIAN CENTRE FOR
STANDARDISATION
EVS
EVS (a non-profit
association recognised by the Government of Estonia as the national standards
body for Estonia) started its operations as provided by the Technical
Regulations and Standards Act on April 1, 2000.
According to the Statute, the main responsibilities of EVS are as follows:
1) participation in the work of international and European standards organisations;
2) compiling the Estonian standards programme;
3) notification of foreign states' and international standards organisations
about the draft and adopted European standards and of the standards programme;
4) elaboration of the proceeding requirements for drafting Estonian standards;
5) adoption, amendment, declaring void, publication information of and
publishing of Estonian standards, dissemination of information on standardisation;
6) maintenance and making available to the public of Estonian standards,
standards of other states, international and European standards, and publications
on standardisation;
7) providing information, training and certification services;
8) establishment of standardisation infrastructure and supporting its
activities;
9) sales and dissemination of Estonian standards.
ESTONIAN STANDARDS
Standards issued by EVS are voluntary documents and are drawn up by Technical
Committees or by work groups. EVS approves and registers Estonian standards.
According to clause 4 3) (19) of the Copyright Act enforced on April 1,
1999 standards and draft standards are subject to copyright. The Technical
Regulations and Standards Act adopted on February 22, 1999 stipulates,
that copyright on a standard belongs to the standardisation body which
adopted the standard. Observance of a standard is free of charge.
By the end of December 2002 there are 10266 Estonian standards. 279 European
standards (257 CEN, 20 CENELEC, 2 ETSI) were transposed using the translation
method and 202 drafts were in processing. 9703 standards were transposed
using the endorsement method.
National Standards Board of Estonia was a correspondent member of ISO
and affiliated member of CEN. The memberships in ISO and CEN were transferred
from the Standards Board to EVS. As a result of the liquidation of the
Estonian Electrotechnical Committee on March 23, 2001 the associated member
status of IEC and affiliate status of CENELEC were transferred to EVS.
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