Goals and principles

Standardization is activity of establishing, with regard to actual or potential problems, provisions for common and repeated use, aimed at the achievement of the optimum degree of order in a given context. In particular, the activity consists of the processes of formulating, issuing and implementing standards. Important benefits of standardization are improvement of the suitability of products, processes and services for their intended purposes, prevention of barriers to trade and facilitation of technological cooperation. (ISO/IEC Guide 2:2004)

Standard is document, established by consensus and approved by a recognized body, that provides, for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results, aimed at the achievement of the optimum degree of order in a given context. Standards should be based on the consolidated results of science, technology and experience, and aimed at the promotion of optimum community benefits. (ISO/IEC Guide 2:2004)

General aims of standardization:
• The promotion of protection of human, animal and plant life, health and safety, and of the environment;
• The promotion of quality of products, processes and services, determining their purpose, unification, compatibility and commutability;
• The provision of an uniform technical basis;
• The development and promotion of production and trade in goods, performing construction works, or providing services through development of internationally harmonized standards and related documents aimed at the rational use of labor, materials and energy;
• The promotion of international trade through preventing or eliminating unnecessary technical barriers.

Basic standardization principles are the following:
Consensus - general agreement, characterized by the absence of sustained opposition to substantial issues by any important part of the concerned interests and by a process that involves seeking to take into account the views of all parties concerned and to reconcile any conflicting arguments;
All interested parties including means the right to voluntary participation and and contribution of all interested parties in the process of adopting standards and related documents and prevention of domination of individual interests  over the common interest of the interested parties;
Transparency of the standardization procedure and the availability to the public of Montenegrin standards and related documents;
Coherence means the collection of the standards should be coherent, i.e. the standards should not be conflicting (new standard adoption initiates withdrawal of the old one);
State of the art in the field of technology means the standard indicates the stage of development of technology in the relevant time framework, based on scientific, technical and empirical knowledge;
Prevention of technical barriers to trade means ensuring that standards are not prepared, adopted or applied with the effect of creating unnecessary obstacles to international trade. It is eligible using international standards or its appropriate parts as the basis for creating national standards.