Who is NEN and what do we do?
Proper agreements on products, methods and services are important, but if it is a matter of safety, they are absolutely vital. Think for example about the safety of toys, fire safety of decorations and counterterrorism. Widely supported agreements, make international trade, innovation, safety, efficiency and sustainability possible.
At NEN, the Royal Netherlands Standardization Institute, we connect parties and stakeholders and ensure that they reach agreements in standards and guidelines. They do this in national and / or international standards committees.
NEN manages over 31.000 standards. Those are the international (ISO, IEC), European (EN) and national (NEN) standards accepted in The Netherlands. In total over 800 standards committees are active, with in total over 5.000 standard committee members. Properly managing the extensive standards collection and coordinating the national, European and international standards committees, requires a high-quality infrastructure.
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Want to buy a standard?
The NEN webshop is online 24 hours a day. Dutch (NEN) standards, European (EN) standards and international (ISO) standards are available in the webshop.
Furthermore instruction manuals, online subscription databases (NEN Connect, NEN 1010plus, NEN 3140plus) and consultancy services are also available. These products and services are for the most part only available in Dutch.
Ordering information
Products are available as PDF (directly downloadable) and/or as hard copy. Downloadable products are directly available at the 'Delivery Desk', hard copy products are dispatched within 3 working days to your postal address.