Regulation on the Establishment of the Croatian Standards Institute

On its session of 27 October 2004 the Government of the Republic of Croatia enacted the Regulation on the Establishment of the Croatian Standards Institute as a public institution for achieving the aims of standardization and conducting operations and tasks of national standardization under the name of Hrvatski zavod za norme. The abbreviated name of the institution is HZN and the name in English the Croatian Standards Institute.

In accordance with the Standardization Act and the Regulation on the Establishment of the Croatian Standards Institute, a part of HZN's activities comprise tasks which are of interest for the Republic of Croatia and are carried out by HZN only:

1. preparation, adoption and publication of Croatian standards and other documents related to standardization,
2. representation of the Croatian standardization in international and European standards organizations,
3. maintaining the collection of Croatian standards and keeping the register of Croatian standards,
4. editing, publication and distribution of Croatian standards, other documents and publications in the field of standardization,
5. establishing and maintaining the relevant databases of standards and other documents related to standardization and providing information on standards and other documents,
6. publishing information on Croatian standards as well as on other documents relating to standardization in the Official Bulletin,
7. providing information on national, European and international standards to the public, in particular to the economy sector.

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