Standards in welding in Serbia: State of art

Abstract

In the period until the end of the year 2020, the Institute for Standardization of Serbia took over and published as Serbian standards about 99% of European standards – including their additions (amendments). In 2020, the Institute published 2032 Serbian standards and related documents, and at the same time withdrew 1257 Serbian standards and related documents. Of that number, 171 standards were published in Serbian, of which 35 were original Serbian standards. Besides, in 2020, a total of 1422 draft standards and 1888 definitive texts of draft standards were drafted. The plan for the adoption of Serbian standards and related documents for 2021, as well as for each subsequent year after it, will provide for the adoption of about 1500 Serbian standards that are identical to the corresponding European ones, because that is the average number of standards published by CEN and CENELEC in one year and which must be taken over at the national level. Also, the plan envisions the adoption of 32 original Serbian standards and about 100 international standards. The paper gives an overview of the adopted standards of the ISS department for metallurgy, mechanical engineering, construction and transport, by the commission M044 welding and related procedures and the status of the adopted standards in the Republic of Serbia until the end of 2020.