The Spanish Association for Standardization, UNE, approved its 2030 Strategy today during its General Assembly. At the event, it also presented its 2024 Annual Report, which outlines the main activities carried out by the organization over the past year, and presented the 2025 UNE Standardization Awards. The Director General for Industrial Strategy and SMEs at the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, Jordi García Brustenga, closed the Assembly.
Javier García, Director General of UNE and Vice-President of ISO, noted that: “The UNE 2030 Strategy sets out, with an appropriate level of detail, the steps we must take in the coming years to fulfil our purpose: to contribute to shared progress in society and to the creation of a safer, more sustainable and competitive world through the development of standards”.
The 2030 Strategy has three objectives: to make technical standards a driver of shared progress in Spain, to promote awareness of the benefits of standards, and to ensure UNE’s sustainability.
In 2024, the Spanish standardization body published new standards to help Spanish companies address major challenges in areas such as the twin digital and green transitions, market access, innovation, and social challenges — including the first global standard aimed at achieving the United Nations 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Last year, UNE also published the fourth annual report from its Market Surveillance Observatory, with the aim of strengthening public-private collaboration in this field and supporting the marketing of compliant, safe products and services.
Financial benefits
Technical standards are strategic tools for economic growth and business competitiveness. In this regard, they contribute 1% to Spain’s GDP and account for 5% of the sales revenue of companies that implement them, according to studies by the Institute of Economic Studies (IEE) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
International leadership
Spain strengthened its international leadership in standardization in 2024, with Spanish experts holding 161 positions of responsibility in global standardization bodies. Among them is the Director General of UNE, Javier García, who was re-elected Vice-President of ISO for a new two-year term.
New UNE members
Another key milestone was the addition of 26 new members to UNE’s membership base, which now comprises 548 entities representing almost the entirety of Spain’s productive and economic fabric. These include the 200 leading Spanish business associations, major companies, public administrations, universities, and technology centres. UNE's members are the engine and foundation of Spain's standardization system.
