ISO defines itself as anon-governmental organization. It has its headquarters in Geneva,Switzerland. ISO has 162 members.

Correspondent members
Subscriber members
Other places who aren't members of ISO
Membership categories of ISO are the following:
▪ Member bodiesare national bodies that are considered to be the most representative standards body in each country. These are the only members of ISO that have voting rights.
▪ Correspondent membersare countries that do not have their own standards organization. These members are informed about ISO's work, but do not participate in standards promulgation.
▪ Subscriber membersare countries with small economies. They pay reduced membership fees, but can follow the development of standards.
ISO has administrative and working bodies. The administrative bodies are General Assembly, Council (under the Council, there are a number of policy development committees to provide strategic guidance for the standards' development work on cross-sectoral aspects which are: CASCO (conformity assessment); COPOLCO (consumer policy), and DEVCO (developing country matters) and Technical Management Board.
ISO standards are developed bytechnical committees, subcommittees and working groups. ISO has developed over 17500 International Standards and some 1100 new ISO standards are published every year. ISO national member bodies may participate in technical committees as P-member (Participating) or O-member (observer).
The representative of Armenia in the ISO is the National Institute of Standards (SARM). It was Correspondent membersof ISO for 1994 – 1997 years and is a member body since 1997. SARM participates in the standardization activities of 15 technical committees and 14 subcommittees.
Policy development committees
- CASCO- Committee on conformity assessment (P-Member)
- COPOLCO- Committee on consumer policy (O-Member)
- DEVCO- Committee on developing countries matters (P-Member)
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