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Certification: the Organismo
Argentino de Acreditación
(Argentine Accreditation
Body) and IRAM (also
known as the Argentine
Standardization Body).
The ability to
Argentina is a
trailblazer in
standards in
South America.
differentiate the meaning
of accreditation and
certification according
to the National System
of Standards, Quality,
and Certification is very
important. On one hand,
accreditation is the formal
acknowledgment submitted
by a third party that an
organization complies with
the specified requirements
and that the organization
is competent to perform
the specific tasks to assess
compliance. On the other
hand, certification is a
voluntary process through
which a certification body
assesses the compliance of
a process, product, system,
or person to applicable
ISO standards.
To date, IRAM has
published more than
9,000 consensus-based
standards and has 270 active
technical organizations in
which representatives from
production, consumption,
science and technology,
education, and government
participate.
At a regional level,
Argentina is a member of
the Pan American Standards
Commission and Mercosur
Standardisation Association.
At an international level,
Argentina is a member of the
International Organization
for Standardization
(ISO), International
Electrotechnical Commission
(IEC), and International
Telecommunication Union.
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Standards Related to
the Language Industry
in Argentina
ISO and IEC form the
specialized system for
worldwide standardization.
National bodies that
are members of ISO or
IEC participate in the
development of international
standards through
technical committees. Other
governmental and nongovernmental
international
organizations collaborate
with ISO and IEC to develop
and adopt standards.
ISO defines the adoption
of standards as: " the
publication of a regional
or national normative
document based on a
relevant international
standard, or endorsement
of the international
standard as having the
same status as a national
normative document, with
any deviations from the
international standard
identified. " 10
According to
the European Commission,
" normative documents "
consist of a broad category of
documents, including those
establishing juridical (legal)
norms, and requirements.
In the adoption process,
changes in wording may
occur, such as replacing
single words or phrases in the
regional or national standard
with synonyms to reflect
common language use in the
region or country adopting
the international standard.
ISO published its Adoption of
International Standards-ISO/
IEC Guide 21-1:2005 as a
way to provide: " methods
for determining the degree
of correspondence/affinity
between regional/national
standards and international
standards; adopting
international standards at
a regional or national level;
stating technical deviations
that would facilitate the
identification of any
deviation; and numbering of
regional or national standards
that are identical adoptions of
international standards. "
Following this guide, the
standards listed below have
been adopted in Argentina.
One of these standards
(IRAM 13650) is still in the
preparatory stage and has not
been published yet:
y IRAM-ISO 1087-1:2004-
Terminology Work.
Vocabulary. Part 1: Theory
and Application
y IRAM-ISO 10872:2004-Terminology
Work.
Vocabulary. Part 2:
Computer Applications
y IRAM 36200:2005-
Terminology. Terminology
Rules. Preparation and
Presentation
y IRAM-ISO 12616:2006-
Translation-Oriented
Terminography
y IRAM-ISO 704:2009-
Terminology Work.
Principles and Methods
y IRAM-ISO 12615:2011-
Bibliographic References
and Source Identifiers for
Terminological Work
y IRAM-ISO/IEC
27001:2013-Information
Technology. Security
Techniques. Information
Security Management
Systems
y IRAM-ISO 13611:2016-
Interpreting. Guidelines
for Community Services
Interpreting
y IRAM 13612:2018-
Interpreting. Requirements
and Recommendations for
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