IFAN

Founded in 1974, IFAN is an independent, non-profit, international association of national organizations for the application of standards. The organization’s objectives include the promotion of uniform implementation of standards, and the development of solutions to standards users’ problems, the consolidation of standards users’ interests and views on all aspects of standardization and conformity assessment. IFAN cooperates with international and regional standardizing bodies (e.g. ISO, IEC, ITU, CEN, COPANT, etc) in order to communicate user views to these organizations and in the promotion of networking in the field of international standardization and conformity assessment.