Specialized body for standardization practice NOP

This specialized body has the following responsibilities:

• promotion of cooperation and exchange of experience among the users of standards in Switzerland;
• raising the profile of standardization as an important resource available to society and businesses;
• exchange of experience on matters of standardization in a very general sense through personal contacts at conferences;
• continuous exchange of experience on matters of standardization by means of electronic tools and media;
• temporary project groups for the production of aids required by members;
• forum for feedback from users to the SNV;
• communication of user needs to the SNV;
• arranging experts to give training courses;
• arranging and holding specialist presentations;
• presentations on matters of standardization in general;
• presentations on strategic issues with implications for implementation of standards;
• presentations aimed at promoting the value attached to standardization by society and business;
• support for training in matters of standardization at all levels of industry and society;
• cooperation with other specialized divisions in Switzerland as well as with ANP-N in DIN, AGN-ON and CSSTN-CSI.

This body’s services and programme include:

• publication of relevant documents on SNV Livelink
• possibility for debate on SNV Livelink
• periodic committee meetings to debate current affairs