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Slovenian Institute for Standardization as the Slovenian national standards body is responsible for: setting up, managing and maintaining the Slovenian national standardization system; providing, in an internationally comparable way, Slovenian national and other standards for all interested parties; representing Slovenia in international and European organizations for standardization; and ensuring creative participation of all interested parties from Slovenia in the processes of European and international standardization, representing there the national interests.

The Slovenian national standardization performs its activities following an annual work program (which among other provides for the issuance of the Slovenian national standards included in the "Program for preparation of Slovenian Standards"), which is adopted in agreement with the Founder by the SIST Assembly, and a financial plan, which is approved in agreement with the Founder by the SIST Council. These activities are performed in the public interest, but with a stress on professional independence, implementing the basic international and European principles of standardization, which are based on consensus, voluntary character, public accessibility and openness.

The Slovenian national standardization system is steered and managed by the Assembly of the Slovenian Institute for Standardization, which is composed of SIST members, who see to the implementation of the interests of the Slovenian national standardization, and five representatives of the Founder. The SIST President is the body representing SIST at the international and European levels and chairing the Assembly and Council meetings.  The Council, which is the managing body, has seven members, of whom: two are the representatives of SIST members, one is the representative of SIST employees, three are the representatives of the Founder, and one is the SIST President.

The SIST Director is the person who takes care of the legality of SIST's work and business operations, and manages the SIST Secretariat, which is a technical-administrative service providing support to the SIST bodies and technical working bodies. Two Technical Boards, one for the general and the other for the electrotechnical, information technology and telecommunications fields, are the bodies who steer the technical work within the Slovenian national standardization.  The rules for their establishment and work are laid down in the document "Rules of Procedure for the Technical Board of the Slovenian Institute for Standardization".

The technical work is performed by 2500 Slovenian technical experts, who are involved in the work of 151 technical working bodies within the Slovenian Institute for Standardization. The task of these bodies is to prepare the Slovenian national standards and other documents of the Slovenian national standardization, and to participate in the production of international and European standards by the technical working bodies of the international and European organizations for standardization, of whom SIST is a member. The rules for their establishment and work are laid down in the "Rules of Procedure for the Establishment and Work of Technical Working Bodies within the Slovenian Institute for Standardization".

The SIST bodies and technical working bodies (TWBs) are composed in such a way as to allow for equal representation of all interested parties (the Founder, the industry, the consumers, academic and research institutions), for independent performance of standardization activities, and to prevent the predomination of individual or group interests in adoption of the decisions of the national standards body. 

Slovenian national standards and other documents (technical specifications, technical reports, guides) of the Slovenian national standardization are prepared, adopted, issued, maintained and withdrawn following the "General Act on the Procedure of adopting Slovenian National Standards and other Documents in Slovenian national Standardization". The Act was prepared in conformity with the European (www.cen.eu/boss) and international rules for national standards work (CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations  Part 2: Common Rules for Standards Work) and ISO/IEC Directive, Part 1).

Updated: 23. nov. 2006