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Standards exist to make life safer and more efficient and to facilitate trade.

Standards cover every area of life from technical guidelines for the aerospace industry to specifications for 'making things happen' - the management of diverse issues like CCTV systems, customer loyalty and even skateparks.

British Standards pioneered the development of these, along with BS 5750, which has become ISO 9000, the world's most popular management system series.

British Standards is the National Standards Body of the UK, responsible for facilitating, drafting, publishing and marketing British Standards and other guidelines.

With collaborative ventures and a strong national and international profile, British Standards is at the heart of the world of standardization.

British Standards provides UK industry and other stakeholders with their major access to and influence on standardization, both in the European arena (with CEN, CENELEC and ETSI) and internationally (with ISO and IEC).