Standards Norway (SN) is a private member organization with approx. 70 employees. The core activity is to develop standards based on market needs. Standards Norway has the copyright on publishing Norwegian Standards.
The organization is a non-profit organization, in the sense that all income will be returned to standardization work.
Each year, SN publishes about 1 200 new Norwegian Standards (NS), on the basis of national proposals and European and International Standards. The marketing and sales of Norwegian, international and foreign standards are carried out by a separate company, Standard Online AS, of which SN holds 80 % of the shares.