Hellenic Standards, according to the International guides, are documents that provide for common and repeated use of specifications, rules, guidelines, activities' characteristics or their results, aiming at the achievement of the optimum degree of order in a given context.
Hellenic standards support the development of national economy in general.
They refer to products, processes and services as well as to quality systems. The procedures, established by ELOT for the elaboration of Hellenic Standards, aim to the achievement of consensus of all interested parties. Thus, standards are formulated by representative Technical Committees of Standardization and are submitted to a public enquiry procedure in order to achieve the maximum of common acceptance. The Secretariat of a Technical Committee in many cases has been assigned to competent bodies. Hellenic Standards are also revised at regular intervals in order to meet the requirements of the latest developments in science and technology and they also are harmonized with the relevant international and European standards in order to be in line with developed countries.