World Standards Day
The World Standards Day, World Standards Day English, is celebrated annually on October 14. It is a day of remembrance, by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU) was launched.
October 14 was chosen as the date because on October 14th, 1946 delegates from 25 countries in London decided to create an international organization to facilitate standardization. The ISO was founded a year later. The message is determined each year based on the ISO on a current aspect of standardization. The messages of the past years are:
- 2012: Better results with less effort - Increased efficiency through standards
- 2011: International Standards - Global trust
- 2010: Standards for a world without barriers
- 2009: standards against climate change
Topic of the 41st Memorial Day in 2010 was the message "Standards make the world accessible for all - Standards make the world accessible for all ". 2009 was placed under the motto " standards against climate change ".
In Germany alone, 30,000 standards of the German Institute for Standardization exist (DIN). The economic value of standards is estimated by DIN to about 16 billion euros per year. For the DIN 28,500 external experts are engaged and about 380 own employees. Standards are about 2600 per year in 75 committees and standards committees also draft standards and specifications.
Among the existing standards are also some curiosities hide: So extended the EU in 1998, the size standards for condoms to 17 cm in length and 56 mm in thickness after 1993 still 1 cm respectively 2 mm were less necessary.
The city of Berlin was summoned under threat of a penalty in the amount of 800,000 euros to enact a law on cable railways, although the highest elevations of the city, are not provided with each 114.7 m, the Great Müggelberg and the Devil's Mountain by cable car. Berlin made do with the wording of the Bavarian funicular law.