The Arab Organization for Standardization and Metrology (, ), also known as Arab Organization for Standardization and Measures, was founded in 1965 as a specialized agency under the

Arab League The Arab League (, ' ), officially the League of Arab States (, '), is a regional organization in the Arab world. The Arab League was formed in Cairo on 22 March 1945, initially with seven members: Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt, Kingdom of Iraq, ...

by the

Council of Arab Economic Unity The Council of Arab Economic Unity (CAEU) (Arabic: مجلس الوحدة الاقتصادية العربية) was founded by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritania, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and ...

. The organization's functions included offering technical advice to Arab states on systems of weights and measures; providing professional training and research on industrial production quality, metrology, test and inspection methods; and seeking standardization of technical terms and product specifications between member nations. Their first general committee was held on March 25, 1968. The organization was merged in the 1990s with other organizations to form the Arab Industrial Development and Mining Organization.

Standards

ASMO 449 ASMO 449 is a now technologically obsolete 7-bit coded character set to encode the Arabic language, Arabic language. History This character set was devised by the now extinct Arab Standardization and Metrology Organization in 1982 to be the 7-bit ...

* ASMO 708

References

External links

Arab Organization for Standardization and Metrology on WorldCat
partial list of publications by the organization.

ISO member bodies Scientific organizations established in 1965 Metrology organizations Scientific organizations disestablished in 1989 Arab League Pan-Arab organizations {{standard-stub