ISO 9000 or offering counseling services, yet the ISO 9001 guidelines, because they are business management guidelines, can be applied to each of these. Diverse organizations—police departments (United States), professional soccer teams (Mexico), and city councils (UK)—have successfully implemented ISO 9001:2000 systems. Over time, various industry sectors have wanted to standardize their interpretations of the guidelines within their own marketplace. This is partly to ensure that their versions of ISO 9000 have their specific requirements, but also to try and ensure that more appropriately trained and experienced auditors are sent to assess them. The debate on the effectiveness of ISO 9000 commonly
State Committee for Standards and Product Quality Management for Standardization"; the "Committee for Standards, Metrology, and Measuring Instruments"; the "State Committee for Standards"; the "State Committee for Standards and Product Quality Management". The agency received its nickname, "Gosstandart", in 1970. After the dissolution of the USSR, "Gosstandart" was merged with "Gosstandart Rossii" and today its name is Rostekhregulirovaniye. In Ukraine, Gosstandart became Derzhstandart, an abbreviation for "Derzhavnyy standart". State Committee for Standards and Product Quality Management Gosstandart () was the Soviet government agency responsible for standardization, metrology, and quality management. The name is an abbreviation for "Gosudarstvennyy standart" (‘State Standard’). Established in 1925 as a committee for standardization