Quality is our standard UNI - Italian Organization for Standardization - is a private association founded in 1921 appointed by the italian government and the European Union to develop, approve and publish technical standards in all economic sectors (industry, trade and services) except for the electric and electrotechnical ones.

Standarditazion is developed by 59 UNI commissions and 14 indipendent associated bodies to which specific sectors are delegated.
Every year about 3.500 experts representing all interested parties (industry, trade, users, consumers, public administration, testing laboratories, research institutes…) take part in standardization works.
In most recent years standards production averaged about 1.500 documents per year and at 31.12.2006 valid UNI standards were about 17.500.

Beside standardization, UNI works in the following fields:

• publishing (books, CD-ROMs, website www.uni.com, the monthly magazine “U&C” and the newsletter “UNInotizie”)
• training
• international activity (representing Italy at CEN and ISO level; managing cooperation and technical assistance projects with other european and non-european NSBs).

UNI is a non-profit organization. Its main sources of income are:

• sales from publications
• membership fees
• public funding dedicated to specific technical activities.

UNI operating structure is made of 111 employees (working in Milano headquarters and Rome branch office) and 14 “UNI Points” located in the main towns all around Italy. UNI Points are managed by indipendent entities and they work as information centers and distribute UNI standards and other publications.