The Department for Standards is concerned with developing Somali standards through their technical staff in collaboration with the specialized technical committees, undertake the technical secretariat of these committees, conduct the relevant technical studies, and follow-up the required laboratory experiments to develop the draft standards as well.

These concerned committees comprise specialists from different industrial, scientific and supervisory activities as well as consumers according to various industrial and supervisory sectors as follows:

Technical committees:

• Food & Agriculture
• Halal Electrotechnical
• Petroleum
• Medicine & Health
• Transport & Communication
• Building & Civil Engineering
• Tourism
• Metrology
• Management systems
• Cookstoves
• Information & Technology