AENOR


The Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification is an entity dedicated to the development of standardization and certification in all Spanish industrial and service sectors.

Description

Aenor is a private, independent, non-profit-making Spanish institution which contributes through standardization and certification to improve technology produced by companies.
It was created by order of the Ministry of Industry and Energy on 26 February 1986, in accordance with the Royal Decree 1614/1985 and was recognized as a standardization organization and as an entity of certification by Royal decree 2200/1995, following the law 21/1992 of industry.

Functions

The functions of AENOR are:
  1. Standardization: AENOR is the organization legally responsible of development and diffusion of technical standards in Spain.
  2. Certification: AENOR certificates are one the most valued in the international ambit, since it has emitted certificates in over 60 countries. Therefore, AENOR is situated between the ten most important certificators in the world.
  3. Publishment Activity: It offers a wide catalog of technical books, ebooks and magazines among others.
  4. Software Design: AENOR designed Ceertol, which is family of computing solutions for the management of systems.
  5. Training in different areas:
  7. Information services: they provide general information about the followings issues:

    History

Coinciding with the incorporation of Spain to the European Economic Community, in 1986 AENOR was constituted. Until that date, standardization work was the responsibility of the Institute for Rationalization and Standardization.

First steps in standardization

In the first year 24 technical standards committees were created. A year later, AENOR assumed the representation of Spain before the European organizations and international.
Nowadays, AENOR has more than 200 technical standards committees involving nearly 6,000 experts in the field.

Milestones


-Milestones
1986Creation of AENOR
1987First standard UNE edited
1988First Brand N product certificate
1989First quality of service certificate
1990First International Cooperation project
1992Creation of the Training Center
1993Opening of the first delegation in Basque Country and the AENOR Agency in Andalusia
1995First Certificate of Environmental Management System
1996AENOR, The first Spanish entity accredited by the National Entity of Accreditation
1997Opening of AENORMexico
1999Opening of CEIS
2001Opening of AENORinternational
2002First Certificate of Management Systems en I+D
2004First Certificate of Management Systems in Occupational Health and Safety
2005Accreditation for the UN as Designated Operational Entity –Kyoto protocol. It was the first Spanish entity achieving it
2008Opening of AENORlaboratory
2009Opening of the last delegation in Castilla-La Mancha. AENOR is now present in the 17 Autonomous Communities
2010Opening of offices in Ecuador, Dominican Republic and Morocco

Members

Any entity that has interest in the develop of the standardization or certification can be member of AENOR, because of its associative character. Today, It has more than 800 members, among them are the main business associations, some of the first Spanish companies and a good representation of Public Administrations.

Categories

Governing bodies

  1. All Governing Bodies are called and chaired by the President.
  2. The General Assembly is the supreme body in which all members participate. Its function is to elect the Board of Directors, which is responsible for the representation and management of the Association.
  3. The Board of Directors consists of a maximum of 70 members representing the different classes of members and the interested parties, who then elect the Permanent Commission.
  4. The Standing Committee is composed of 10 members and is responsible for supervising and controlling the guidelines established by the Board of Directors.

    Participation in international and regional standardization bodies

AENOR is a Spanish member of the following international standardization organizations:
Likewise, at European level, AENOR is a Spanish member of the following recognized standardization organizations:
AENOR is the official Spanish national standardization organisation according to.