You have probably been asked the following questions already:

• Why do you go to Austrian Standards Institute so often?
• What do you actually do there?
• Where is our advantage if you are "sitting around" there?

Today, companies and organisations calculate very accurately how and on what they spend their capital. They also question whether and in what way they should engage in standardisation, because participating in the development of standards costs both time and money.
 
That means: Participating in standardisation is an investment. And the company, just as with every other investment, wants to know what they get out of it – whether the commitment is worth the effort.

When participating as an expert in a standardisation-committee, one should be prepared to answer questions about the use and sense of this sort of work.

Austrian Standards Institute wants to assist you comprehensively. We have compiled a number of core statements, facts and information which will help you to have the right answers at hand.