ISO 4217 ISO 4217 code is to be followed by a hard space and the amount: In Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish the order is reversed; the amount is followed by a hard space and the ISO 4217 code: Note that, as illustrated, the order is determined not by the currency, but by the native language of the document context. In 1973, the ISO Technical Committee 68 decided to develop codes for the representation of currencies and funds for use in any application of trade, commerce
Brazilian National Standards Organization (AMN). ABNT is the exclusive representative of Brazil in the international organizations ISO and IEC and in the regional entities COPANT and AMN. Brazilian National Standards Organization The Brazilian Association of Technical Standards, usually rendered in Portuguese as Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT) is a private non-profit organization and the normative body which is responsible for technical standards in Brazil, and intends to promote technological development in the country. Brazilian national standards published by the association are named "Norma Brasileira Regulamentadora" and abbreviated NBR. ABNT was founded in 1940. It was officially adopted by the Brazilian government in 1962.