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Cooperative partnerships and international projects

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In order to build and deploy its technical support and development services, the AFNOR syndicates the competencies of the leading French agencies specialized in areas from standardization, certification and quality management to testing, metrology, marketplace intelligence and consumer protection.


With public authority backing and support from French industry leaders, the AFNOR can mobilize multicultural teams with highly specialized skillsets to design and implement programmes geared specifically to individual national environments and industrial sectors.

 

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Objectives

Delivering product quality and service quality is the cornerstone of economic expansion and competitive edge on international markets.


Quality assurance tools such as metrology, standardization, certification and testing enable businesses or nations to gain full process control over every dimension of technology know-how.


The target audience for AFNOR services includes administrations, standardization offices, and any organization involved in marketplace quality and stability in developing and/or emerging economies.


Facilitating membership to the WTO (World Trade Organization) or paving the way to European Union integration, driving the deployment of efficient and effective infrastructures, providing expert professional guidance on securing sustainable competency development: the AFNOR has been tackling missions like these for over three decades.

 

A network of partners

In order to carry through its technical guidance operations, the AFNOR taps into a network of France-based institutional partners and the key expertise of major technical organizations (laboratories, technical platforms, research institutes) to cover the main industry and service sectors:


  • ACTIA (Association for Technical Cooperation across the Agro-foods Industry)
  • ADEME (French Agency for the Environment and Energy Management)
  • ADEPTA (Association for the Development of International Exchange in Food Industry Products and Technologies)
  • COFRAC (the French Accreditation Committee)
  • CSTB (Centre for Building Sciences and Technologies Research)
  • CTI (Industrial Technology Platforms Hub)
  • INERIS (National Institute for the Industrial Environment and Hazard Control)
  • LCIE (Central Laboratory for Electrical Industries)
  • LNE (French Metrology and Testing Laboratory)
  • UTAC (Union for 2-Wheel and 4-Wheel Transport Technologies)
  • UTE (French Electrotechnical Committee)

 

Sharing key insights and experiences

The AFNOR's key insights and experiences can shape targeted action in a host of areas ranging from industrial facilities to consumer goods, foods, and service delivery:


  • consultancy services for national policy-building: assessment of legacy nationwide systems, revisions to legislation and regulatory texts, consultancy for setting up national-level structures, assistance on the development of local technical agencies, implementation of European Neighbourhood Policy;

  • standardization, and certification, and quality management-related services: training, quality audits and refresher programmes, redrafting certification procedures, assistance on the deployment of training and document management centres;

  • development of metrology laboratories, independent testing and analytical services geared to the application of conformity assessment procedures: needs appraisals and assessments, equipment procurements, training up specialist laboratory technicians, testing performed to European and international standards, assessment and preparation for accreditation applications;

  • guidance and assistance on implementing quality procedures in professional training and higher education institutions.

 
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