AFNOR

The French Association for Standardisation (abbreviated AFNOR) is the French organization that represents France at the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN). Since 1st January 2014, following the merger of Afnor and the Union technique de l'électricité (UTE), it has also been a member of the European Committee for Standardisation in Electronics and Electrotechnics (CENELEC) at the European level, and of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) at the international level. The French Association for Standardisation was created in 1926. 

It is placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry. Its role is specified in Decree No. 2009-697 of 16 June 2009 on standardisation, which confers on it a mission of general interest, a decree amended by the Decree of 10 November 2019. As such, it receives a public subsidy covering part of its activities. It is recognized as being of public utility. Since its merger with the French Association for Quality Assurance in 2004, it has been part of the AFNOR Group. AFNOR publishes the collection of NF standards which usually identifies a document by the form NF L CC-CCC in the French national nomenclature.