ISIRI has so far developed some 23000 National Standards mainly in the following fields:
- 3127 national standards for Food and agricultural products
- 2890 national standards for Chemical and polymer
- 2791 national standards for Mechanics and metrology
- 2505 national standards for Automation and vehicles
- 111 national standards for Quality management
- 694 national standards for Service
Contribution in the development of International Standards:
In order to contribute in the development of international standards, ISIRI has established an appropriate structure to systemize this contribution such as capacity building and supplying the suitable infrastructure for stakeholders to participate in ISO technical activities and identifying the priorities based on the objectives of ISO action plan and strategic plan for developing countries.
ISIRI is a participating member in 215 ISO Technical Committees and Sub- Committees and an observer member in 219 ISO’s TCs and SCs.
Meanwhile, ISO has delegated the secretariat responsibilities of the following TCs to ISIRI:
1. ISO/ TC 91 (Surface active agents)
2. ISO/ TC 134 (Fertilizers and soil conditioners)
3. ISO/ TC 217 (Cosmetics)
4. ISO/ TC 122 (Packaging), (twinned secretariat with Japan)
5. ISO/ TC 34/ SC 10 (Animal feeding stuffs)
In order to participate effectively in the development of international standards and systemizing this cooperation, several measures have been taken as follows:
1- Establishment of National Mirror Technical Committees as following and holding related meetings at specified time intervals:
.P Practicing ISO’s assembly, council, technical board and technical committees meetings at national level
Practicing IEC’s assembly, council, technical board and technical committees meetings at national level
.E Establishment of coordination council of CODEX ALIMENTARIOUS, National Codex Commission (NCC) and CODEX national mirror committees
Preparing code of conducts and regulations related to contribution in development international standards
3- Preparing a database of participating members
4- Issuing orders and mandates for participating members
5- Creating an informative system on ISIRI website
6- Holding training courses for in charge people of technical committees
7- Monitoring and supervising technical committees activities, especially in terms of timely responding to the international standards drafts
8- Monitoring, supervising and coordinating receiving the comments for standards drafts and submitting them to ISO
9- Identifying and absorbing the specialists throughout the country to collaborate in development of national standards
10- Pursuing and implementing the adoptions of council
11- Capacity assessment of ISIRI Provincial offices and related organizations
12- Participation in regional programs of ECO member states and the Standards and Metrology Institute for the Islamic Countries (SMIIC)
- You may find more details about ISIRI in this link: ISIRI Portal
- For a complete and up-to-date list of all the ISIRI standards (more than 14,000, as of February 2011), see the ISIRI Search Index