Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank, TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu and TSE President Prof. Dr. Adem Şahin invited all interested parties to participate in this database.

Hisarcıklıoğlu and Şahin, in order to raise awareness about standardization, as TSE and TOBB, stated that they could not find sufficient human resources in the work carried out focusing on businesses, and stressed that they took action to create an infrastructure based on this.

Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank, in his assessment, urged industrialists, academicians and all interested parties to participate in the work of the mirror committees established within the TSE.

Varank reminded that the main task of these committees is to monitor and direct the work done in organizations which set international standards.

- “Everyone must do their part”

Minister Varank, stating that manufacturers must also do their part in this regard, stating, “For the setting of standards, the voice manufacturers who are in the manufacturing process themselves, who turn the wheels, should be heard and heeded, not experts who sit behind a table without knowing the sector.”

Varank pointed out that they have taken the vision of being a country with a say in the global market to a higher level with the cooperation protocol signed between the Turkish Standards Institute (TSE) and the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), thus taking an important step for the effective participation of industrialists and trade people in international standardization activities.

- Training program

Those who want to participate in the training program created to provide human resources on an important issues such as standardization must first register with the standardization database prepared by TSE and TOBB, which can be accessed through http://std.tobb.org.tr.

After the trainings are completed, national technical (mirror) committee meetings will be held. The main goal here will be to send representatives to international technical committees.

The trainings were prepared for senior managers, engineers or technical personnel who have at least 70 points in ÜDS, KPDS, YDS or equivalent in other foreign language exams (TOEFL, IELTS, etc.), who are trained in standards in their field, are preferably experienced in R&D, design, quality, control and production, and if possible, have previously taken up a position in standardization.