What is a Polish standardization document?
What is a Polish standardization document?
A Polish Standardization Document is a standardization document identified by a reference number starting with a ‘PKN’ symbol.
Until 2002, the Standardization Act authorized the Polish Committee for Standardization to develop the Polish Standards only. Under an amendment of 2002 to this Act, the Polish Committee for Standardization was granted the competence to develop other standardization documents as well.
Each standardization organization develops standardization documents with a rank lower than that of a standard,
agrees its content only at the level of working bodies and publishes it as a document identified by a number containing the organization’s symbol – (PKN, CEN, ISO etc.). The competence ensured by the 2002 amendment to the Standardization Act was exercised in that a new type of document was adopted by the PKN – the so-called Polish Standardization Document (PDN), which is identified by a number starting with the ‘PKN’ symbol.
A Polish Standardization Document may transpose European or international standardization documents other than a standard, and standardization documents published by EU or NATO Member States. It may also be a national input (a so-called ‘own’ Polish Standardization Document).
The most frequent standardization documents:
TS (Technical Specification)
– a normative document which is developed in order to: present
information on the characteristics of the subject matter of the documents which are relevant for market development; provide users with guidelines on properties or methods of research; introduce experimental properties or technologies; publish the results of works on a draft of a standard where the support for such draft during the voting has been insufficient.
TR (Technical Report) – an informative text which is developed in order to convey information on topics other than usually published as a standard.
CWA (Workshop Agreement) – a document containing technical arrangements, developed as a result of an agreement between parties participating in a workshop, but not within a TC.
Guide – an informative document in the form of a set of rules, methods and guidelines.
PAS (Publicly Available Specification) – a document published in response to an urgent demand on the market.