Advantages

Benefits and advantages of SNV membership:

• Access to standards bodies
  Members in categories A1 to A4 and B1 to B4 have access to technical committees (TCs) and thereby actively influence the content of national, European and international standards. Currently there are more than 300 TCs and over 100 interest groups (IGs) working under CENCEN
  European Committee for Standardization and ISOISO
  International Organization for Standardization auspices.
• Access to the SNV Livelink information platform
  As a TCTC
  Technical Committee member, you have access to the SNV Livelink information-management portal that gives you unlimited access to all relevant information and processes via the Internet.
• Draft standards
  You have free access, and can respond, to drafts of technical regulations in the context of EC/EFTA and WTO notification procedures.
• Access to SNV world
  The “early warning on standards” and “subject monitoring” modules make it easy for you to research product and service-related standardization projects and Swiss and European laws. You are also informed automatically about innovations and changes. Find further information on SNV world here.
• Advice
  The SNV answers any questions you may have about standardization, quickly and expertly.
• Information switec – a gazette of technical rules
  Information switec is a complimentary monthly publication that includes information on new and withdrawn standards as well as standards submitted as drafts or for opinions.
• SNV New
  Our monthly bulletin, SNV News, provides you with free, up-to-date information on standardization.
• Licenses
  You are licensed to proceed with internal distribution of standards from the interdisciplinary stock of standards.
• Continuing education and events
  You participate in standards workshops, conferences and events on current topics on preferential terms, and are invited to take part in our annual General Meeting of Members, followed by lunch.
• In addition, SNV members are granted the discounts below:
  −    20% off purchases of standards from the stock of interdisciplinary standards
  −    15% off attendance at a seminar held by the SNV