Standardization is an activity serving the general interest for the purpose of providing reference documents developed on the basis of consensus by all interested parties, concerning rules, characteristics, recommendations and examples of best practices relative to products, services, methods and processes or to organizations.
These guidelines have been developed at the initiative of AFNOR in the framework of its general interest mission.
Please note that this specification was produced, without any physical meeting, in a period of national confinement and in the space of one week, shortly after qualification of COVID-19 as a pandemic by the WHO. These guidelines, the result of in-depth work, have been drawn up in an emergency situation, in an open way and shared by a large number of parties and involving collaboration by more than 150 experts.
