The QIS provides benefits to everyone in the supply and demand chain. This includes the consumer, manufacturer and the supplier.
Consumers benefit because the QIS provides confidence that the products and services they purchase are fit for their purpose.
Manufacturers and suppliers benefit because the QIS promotes their use of international standards to ensure that their products and services meet state-of¬-the-art requirements, and that their business processes are modelled on management system standards recognized worldwide.
Regulators benefit because the QIS helps them to identify and specify the standards and conformity assessment processes they can use to ensure that public interest requirements, such as health, safety and environmental, are being met. The regulator will often make conformity assessment obligatory in these fields and may prohibit the sale of nonconforming products and services.
The government benefits because the QIS puts at its disposal a system for stimulating the economy, increasing the competitiveness of its industry on global markets, using resources efficiently, sharing technological know-how, tackling environmental and climate-related challenges, and for fulfilling its responsibilities for public health and safety, including food safety.
