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European Committee for Standardization operates as an association that brings together the National Standardization Bodies of 34 European countries. It engages in global trading, the welfare of European citizens and the environment by providing an efficient infrastructure to interested parties for the development, maintenance and distribution of coherent sets of standards and specifications. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Ente Nazionale Italiano di Unificazione operates as a non-profit association which develops and publishes technical standards for all industrial, commercial, and tertiary sectors. Its members comprises companies, professionals, associations, public bodies, research centers, educational and academic institutions, representatives of consumers and workers, the third sector and non-governmental organizations which represent Italy in the European standardization organizations. It aims to promote the harmonization of the rules necessary for the functioning of the single market and to support and transpose the peculiarities of the Italian way of producing in specific techniques that enhance national experience and tradition of production. The company was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.