Standards organization whose membership is open to the relevant national body from each country within one geographical, political or economic area.
Regional standards organizations operate in rather different ways.
For example, the European standards organizations, CEN (along with its counterpart for the electrotechnical sector, CENELEC), are significantly involved in the development of European standards.
The others have primarily a focus on collaboration, dialogue and promotion of standardization in various contexts, with limited regional standards development activities.
