Albanian standards (and related documents) may be national standards or may be approvals of international, European or other regional standards and related documents, as well as national standards and similar documents of other countries in accordance with agreements signed with the national standardization bodies of other countries.
Albanian standards are drafted and published in accordance with the principles and rules established by international and European organizations for standardization. These principles and rules were replaced by the internal rules of the DPS and were regulated on the one hand with the possibilities offered in the national regulations and on the other hand modified by the extensive experience and good practice in the national field of standardization.
The procedure for drafting and publishing Albanian standards consists of several phases:
Project phase
Proposal phase
Committee phase
Draft phase
Research phase
Final draft phase
Publication phase