The Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality (EOS) plays an effective role to cope with the global approaches in the activities of standards and quality. Therefore, Ministerial Decrees no. 180/1996 and no. 291/2003 have been issued stipulating that in case there is no Egyptian standard for a product, one of the following international and foreign standards should be applied:

1- ISO Standards

2- IEC Standards

3- EN Standards, and if not available, BS, DIN or NF Standards could be used.

4- American National Standards (ANSI).

5- Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS).

6- CODEX Standards.

7- American Society for Testing and Materials Standards (ASTM International).

8- Japanese Automobile Standards Organization Standards (JASO).

9- Society of Automotive Engineers Standards (SAE).

10- American Petroleum Institute Standards (API).

The whole product or commodity must be subject to one standard only in all its items.