Cyprus Organisation for Standardisation
Formation | 2005 |
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Type | Non-profit organisation operating under the Cyprus Government |
Headquarters | Nicosia, Cyprus |
Services | production of standards and standards related services |
Official languages | |
Subsidiaries | Cyprus Certification Company |
Staff | 19 (2022) |
Website | www.cys.org.cy |
President | George Papanastasiou (OEB) |
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Members |
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Secretary | CYS General Manager |
The Cyprus Organisation for Standardisation, or CYS, is the national
Introduction
Since January 2005, it was autonomous from the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, and operates under private law “The 2002 Law for Standardisation, Accreditation and Technical Regulation”.
The sole shareholder of CYS is the Minister of Finance who appoints, for a 3-year term, its board of directors constituted by 7 members representing the major national stakeholder interested for quality issues: Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Tourism, Employers Federation, Chamber of Commerce, Technical Chamber, Consumers Association and Academia.
CYS is a full member of the European Standards Organisations (ESO's –
.Through its active participation in the European and international Standardisation, CYS promotes the national interest through the issuing and application of standards.[5]
History of Standardisation
There exists archaeological evidence which indicates that the use of standards in Cyprus begun from the ancient times. Copper
On a national and consistent basis standards started being used at the beginning of the 20th century during the British Colonial Administration in the field of Public Works (road and building construction) with the implementation of British Standards. This practice continued and after the establishment of the Republic of Cyprus in 1960.
The principles of Standardization have been introduced on a nationwide and systematic basis in the mid seventies after the establishment of the Cyprus Organisation for Standards and Control of Quality by corresponding legislation (N.68/75).
In 2002, through the Standardization, Accreditation and Technical Information Law (N.156(I)/2002), the activities of standardization have been allocated to the Cyprus Certification Company, which is now known as the Cyprus Organisation For Standardization (CYS).[5]
CYS 94:Part:1985 | Specification for fresh halloumi |
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CYS 92:1989 | Specification for fresh milk |
CYS 301:2009 | Operation and Management of Leisure Kart Facilities:Safety |
CYS 106:2012 | Specification for Low density polyethylene (LDPE) pipes for agricultural applications |
CYS EN ISO 9001:2015 | Quality management systems - Requirements[7] |
CYS EN ISO 14001:2015 | Environmental management systems - Requirements with guidance for use[8] |
Cyprus National Standards
In general, the designation of CYS
- CYS # is used for Cyprus national standards, developed primarily for the specific needs of the Cypriot society and economy.
- CYS EN # is used for the adopted European standards published by CENELEC.
- CYS ISO or IEC # is used for the adopted ISO or IECstandards.
- CYS EN ISO # is used for International standards that have been adopted as a European standards and therefore adopted as national.
As of present, there are only 31 valid purely National Standards, as the majority were withdrawn due to existence of equivalent or superseding ENs.
CYS Mirror and Technical Standardization Committees
In order to facilitate the dissemination and public enquiry of draft European standards and support the industry in its effort to apply these standards, CYS has divided standardization into 15 business sectors. Each business sector includes several sub-categories, where similar or related topic specific industries have been grouped to better facilitate their monitoring.
According to the needs of the market and society, CYS sets up of National Technical Standardization Committees for the creation of national standardisation documents.
Business sectors | Title |
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01 | Agriculture, Food and Feed |
02 | Chemicals, Metals and Plastics |
03 | Construction and Buildings |
04 | Electrotechnical |
05 | Energy |
06 | Environment |
07 | Healthcare |
08 | Information Communication Technologies |
09 | Management, Quality and Conformity Assessment |
10 | Mechanical and Machines |
11 | Occupational and Consumers Health & Safety |
12 | Physical Security and Fire Safety |
13 | Services |
14 | Sustainability |
15 | Transport and Packaging |
Technical Committees | Title |
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CYS/TC 1 | Building Lime |
CYS/TC 2 | Aggregates |
CYS/TC 4 | Bricks |
CYS/TC 5 | Natural Stones |
CYS/TC 6 | Concrete |
CYS/TC 8 | Plastics piping systems |
CYS/TC 13 | Solar thermal systems |
CYS/TC 14 | Precast concrete products |
CYS/TC 15 | Concrete reinforcement steel |
CYS/TC 16 | Playground, Waterparks and Go-Karts safety |
CYS/TC 17 | Asphalt Concrete |
CYS/TC 18 | Eurocodes |
CYS/TC 20 | Doors and windows |
CYS/TC 21 | Cyprus Lefkara Embroidery - Lefkaritiko |
CYS/TC 22 | Hydrocarbons |
CYS/TC 23 | Translation and Adoption of the BS 7671 |
CYS/TC 24 | Gender Equality in the Workplace |
CYS/TC 25 | Fythkiotiko Yfanto |
CYS/TC 26 | Circular plastic products |
CYS/TC 27 | Climate neutrality - carbon sequestration from tree planting |
CYS/TC 28 | Mountaineering and Hiking Trails |
Both, Mirror and Technical Committees monitor the respective standardization activities at International and European level and consult CYS accordingly, e.g. if standards need to be withdrawn, the preparation of national annexes or the development of supplementary standards.
To facilitate the operation of the committees, CYS has been working with ISO to provide an electronic platform - Livelink, where members can exchange information and manage the respective committees at minimum effort and cost.[5]
Centre of Information and Customer service
CYS Centre of Information and Customer service, provides full access to all international, European and national Standards, and is open for the public in order to provide all relevant information.
It offers the possibility of reading, studying and purchasing standards. Furthermore, it provides free access to users in international databases of standards like Perinorm.
In CYS Centre are available for sale – in hardcopy and electronic form – all standards of International Organisations of Standardisation (
References
- ^ CEN Members | www.cen.eu
- ^ CENELEC Members | www.cenelec.eu
- ^ ETSI Members | www.etsi.org Archived 2014-09-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ ISO members | www.iso.org
- ^ a b c Official CYS website | www.cys.org.cy
- ^ Cyprus Copper Ingot | Celebrating World Standards Day 2012
- ^ ISO 9001:2015 - Quality management systems - Requirements | ISO 9001
- ^ ISO 14001:2004 - Environmental management systems - Requirements with guidance for use | ISO 14001
- ^ CYS Procedures and Regulations
External links
- CEN - European Committee for Standardization
- CENELEC - European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization Archived 2012-12-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ETSI - European Telecommunications Standards Institute
- ISO - International Organization for Standardization
- IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission