Legislative and Administrative Structure

The Cyprus Organization for the Promotion of Quality has been established in 2002 by the Standardization, Accreditation and Technical Information Law and comes under the auspices of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism.

CYS is governed by a 13member Board of Governors which is appointed by the Council of Ministers. The basic law provides that six members represent the Government sector while the other seven come from the private sector of the economy.

Scope

The basic aims of the Organization are:

• The promotion and management of the national system for standardization
• The introduction and management of the national system for accreditation
• The introduction and operation of the system implementing the principles of good laboratory practice
• The management of the national system for technical notification

The long term objective is to improve the quality of industrial products, the infrastructure of conformity assessment and the promotion of trade and services.