Standardization today

Information technologies extend over world interchanges. They require specific telecommunications and electronic techniques as well as more general techniques. Their standardization is for a large part made within the linked international Committee ISO/CEI JTC 1. The CEC integrates as much as possible international standardization into European standardization, legislation and into a determined policy for a compulsory implementation of these standards in public markets. If necessary, it develops specific standards for setting up a European market in which information specialists, librarians and information scientists have to take part.
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