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UNI - Ente Nazionale Italiano di Unificazione
Address: Via Battistotti Sassi, 11B
City: 20133 Milan
Country: Italy
UNI - Italian National Standards Body - 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.
UNI is a non-profit organization. Its main sources of income are:
sales from publications
membership fees
public funding linked to specific technical activities.
UNI operating structure is made of some 125 employees (working in Milano headquarters and Rome branch office) and 16 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.
Standarditazion works are developed by 57 UNI commissions and 14 indipendent federated bodies to which specific sectors are delegated.
Every year about 8.000 people representing all interested parties (industry, trade, users, consumers, public administration, research institutes) take part in standardization.
In most recent years - also because of UNIONE, the INTERNET network for standardization - production averaged 1.000 documents per year and at 1.1.2000 valid UNI standards were more than 12.000.
Beside standardization, UNI works in the following fields:
publishing (handbooks, CD-ROMs, the monthly magazine U&C and the bulletin UNInotizie)
training
quality system and product certification
internet (www.uni.com)
international activity (representing Italy at CEN and ISO level; managing cooperation and technical assistance projects with other european and non-european NSBs)
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