ISO/TC 176 ISO/TC 176 ISO/TC 176 is Technical Committee 176 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), responsible for Quality management and quality assurance - the ISO 9000 family of standards. The scope of the committee is ‘Standardization in the field of quality management (generic quality management systems and supporting technologies), as well as quality management standardization in specific sectors at the request of the affected sector and the ISO Technical Management Board’. Membership is open to any national body, in much the same way as membership in either of the two parent organizations. A member can be either participating (P) or
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