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• sharing best practice, so designers can focus on developing better products
• setting benchmarks for performance, quality and safety
• ensuring similar products work together (e.g. making sure all CDs are the same dimensions)
• making technical requirements
• reducing risks
• reducing costs
• exporting ideas that open up overseas markets and raise the profile of national industries and commerce
• competitive advantage from being world leaders
• international meetings leading to exchange of ideas
• creating market-led solutions (i.e. what do people want to buy?)
• reflecting all interests, including small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), consumers, regulators, industry and the environment
• promoting fair competition and avoiding unhealthy concentrations of economic power
• reducing costs for development and production
• increasing the diversity and quality of suppliers for producers and consumers
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ISO
International Standards Organization.
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ISO is a global federation of over 150 national standards bodies, with headquarters in Switzerland. Through consensus it publishes standards for business, governments and consumers.
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BSI
British Standards Institute
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The oldest standards body in the world is still one of the biggest publishers in the world, offering over 27,000 publications and providing a range of support services.
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ANSI
American National Standards Institute
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ANSI was founded in 1918 and coordinates the development and use of voluntary consensus standards in the United States.
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