Title: Finnish Standards Association SFS
1Finnish Standards Association SFS
- is a member of CEN and ISO
- co-ordinates standardization in Finland
- produces SFS standards
- approves SFS-standards
- sells SFS and foreign standards
- maintains databases of standards
- maintains own library
- publishes SFS-tiedotus magazine
- provides with general information on standards
and standardization
2Members of SFS
- Ministries (11)
- Association of Finnish Civil Engineers
- Building Information Institute
- Chemical Industry Federation of Finland
- Confederation of Finnish Construction Industries
RT - Confederation of Finnish Industries, EK
- Federation of Finnish Financial Services
- The Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK
- Finnish Society for Quality
- Finnish Electrotechnical Standards Association
- Finnish Petroleum Federation
- The Finnish Plastics Industries Federation
- Finnish Forest Industries Federation
- General Industry Federation
- Standardization Association of Process Industry
- Standards Association of Textile and Clothing
Industry - Technology Industries of Finland
- The University of Helsinki
- Work Efficiency Institute
3Standards-writing bodies of SFS
- Private associations
- Chemical Industry Fed. of Finland
- Finnish Assn of Construction Product Industries
- Finnish Forest Industries Fed.
- The Finnish Plastics Industries Fed.
- Finnish Electrotech. Standards Assn
- General Industry Federation
- Finnish Petroleum Federation
- Mechanical Engineering and Metals Industry
Standardization in Finland - Standards Assn of Textile and Clothing Industry
- Governmental bodies
- Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority
- MTT/Agrifood Research Finland (Vakola)
- Finnish Environmental Agency
- Finnish Transport Agency
4Technical committees of SFS
- Quantities and units (TK 102)
- Quality Management (TK 105)
- Office documents (TK 106)
- Fire fighting technology (TK 108)
- Toys and child care articles (TK 110)
- Packaging (TK 111)
- Environmental management (TK 113)
- Information and documentation (TK 115)
5The National Standardization Organization
SFS General Assembly
SFS Board
Standardization Board
SFS Office
Standards-Writing Bodies
6Finnish Standards Association SFS
MANAGING DIRECTOR Pekka Järvinen
7Income structure of SFS in 2010
8Products and Services
- Standards
- SFS-handbooks
- Foreign standards
- Information Services
- Customized Standard Collections
- On-line shop
- SFS ONLINE
- Standing orders
- Library
- WTO-Enquiry point
- Magazine SFS-tiedotus
9SFS information services
- Requests
- What Japanese standards on furniture are there
available? - CEN Info Pro
- National standards of other EU-member countries
- SFS update service
- Lists amendments made in taylored collections
- New directives
- What new directives have been published and are
being drawn up?
10SFS-tiedotus
- Magazine for standardization experts published by
Finnish Standards Association SFS - incl. articles, news, lists etc.
11The Standardization Map of the World
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
ISO International Organization for
Standardization
ITU International Telecommunication Union
Global level
CENELEC European Committee for Electrotechnical
Standardization
CEN European Committee for Standardization
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards
Institute
European level
SESKO Electro-technical field
SFS Finnish Standards Association SFS and its
standards-writing bodies
FICORA Finnish Communications Regulatory
Authority
National level
12The amount of confirmed and translated standards
Figure shows the amount of confirmed SFS
standards and the share of the standards
published in Finnish each year 2001-2010
13The development of origin of SFS-standards