The Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification (AENOR, ) is an entity dedicated to the development of Standardization and Certification in all Spanish industrial and service sectors.

Description

Aenor is a private, independent, non-profit-making (although they charge to access their standards) Spanish institution which contributes through standardization and certification to improve technology produced by companies. It was created by order of the Ministry of Industry and Energy on 26 February 1986, in accordance with the Royal Decree 1614/1985 and was recognized as a standardization organization and as an entity of certification by Royal decree 2200/1995, following the law 21/1992 of industry.

Functions

The functions of AENOR are:

History

Coinciding with the incorporation of Spain to the European Economic Community, in 1986 AENOR was constituted. Until that date, standardization work was the responsibility of the Institute for Rationalization and Standardization (IRANOR).

First steps in standardization

In the first year 24 technical standards committees were created. A year later, AENOR assumed the representation of Spain before the European organizations (CENELEC, ETSI) and international (ISO, IEC). Nowadays, AENOR has more than 200 technical standards committees involving nearly 6,000 experts in the field.

Milestones

Members

Any entity that has interest in the develop of the standardization or certification can be member of AENOR, because of its associative character. Today, It has more than 800 members, among them are the main business associations, some of the first Spanish companies and a good representation of Public Administrations.

Categories

Governing bodies

Participation in international and regional standardization bodies

AENOR is a Spanish member of the following international standardization organizations: Likewise, at European level, AENOR is a Spanish member of the following recognized standardization organizations: AENOR is the official Spanish national standardization organization according to (ETSI).