At present, a lot of governments allocate considerable resources to develop the infrastructure for the purpose of compling with these standards, as this fact is a necessity both for the commercial suppliers and the governmental ones.

For the industries of the countries outside the European Community, the certification of the quality systems is understood like a very important requirement in order to enter the EC market.

The discernible advantages of a quality system include:

• better design and quality of the product
• decrease of the rejects and of the customer’s complaints
• efficient use of the personnel, equipment and materials, leading to a higher productivity
• elimination of the production malfunctioning as well as of the atmosphere under strain, resulting in the improvement of the relations within the society
• trust from customers
• improvement of the company’s image and of its reliability on the market