Austrian Standards Institute
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The Austrian Standards Institute is a standards organization
Standards organization
A standards organization, standards body, standards developing organization , or standards setting organization is any organization whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise producing technical standards that are...

 and is the ISO member body for Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

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Its predecessor organization, the Austrian Standards Committee for Industry and Trade, first met in 1920; the first standard was published in 1921. In 1932, the committee's name was shortened to the Austrian Standards Committee. In 1938, with the union of Germany and Austria
Anschluss
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, it became a branch office of the German standards organization, DIN
Din
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. It resumed operations in its own right in 1945, and was a founding member of ISO in 1946.

The 1954 Federal Act on Standardization recognized the activities of the committee, and the Act, as amended, serves as its legal basis. The Austrian Standards Committee's name was changed to the Austrian Standards Institute in 1969. http://www.on-norm.at/publish/50.html?&L=1

On 1 March 2006, the Institute published ON rule ONR 168000, used to calculate the monetary value of a brand
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The Institute is located at Heinestrasse 38, 1020 Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

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