About us

The Croatian Standards Institute is an autonomous non-profit public institution established as the national standards body of the Republic of Croatia with a view to accomplishing the following goals of standardization:

• increasing the safety level of products and processes,
• protecting human health and lives and environmental protection,
• promoting the quality of products, processes and services,
• ensuring the appropriate use of work, materials and energy,
• improving production efficiency,
• controlling variety, ensuring compatibility and interchangeability, and
• removing technical barriers to international trade.

Croatian Standards Institute is a member of:

• International Organisation for Standardization (ISO)
• International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
• European Committee for Standardization (CEN)
• European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC)
• European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) (status: NSO member) 

The Croatian Standards Institute acts as the enquiry point for the World Trade Organization Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (WTO/TBT). .

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