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DIN Standards Committee Information Technology and IT Applications

About NIA

DIN's Standards Committee on Information Technology and Applications (NIA) develops standards in the IT sector, including selected IT applications. The objective of these standards is to

  • improve the performance and quality of IT systems,
  • increase the security of IT systems and data,
  • support the portability of application programs,
  • ensure the interoperability of IT products and systems
  • harmonize development environments,
  • design ergonomic user interfaces.

The applications which the NIA standardize are used in

  • office organization and office technology,
  • postal services,
  • banking,
  • electronic business,
  • data and information exchange

along administrative and logistic chains in the consumer goods industry.

How is NIA composed?

Contact

DIN e. V.
Andreas Lamm

Am DIN-Platz
Burggrafenstraße 6
10787 Berlin

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New projects
Document number Begin Title Comment
ISO/IEC AWI 59794-1 2026-02-19 Information technology - Compact biometric samples for 2D barcodes - Part 1: Framework More  Comment 
ISO/IEC AWI 39794-12 2026-02-18 Information technology - Extensible biometric data interchange formats - Part 12: Fingermark image data More  Comment 
ISO/IEC AWI 25049-1 2026-02-18 Information technology - Customizable biometric web services - Part 1: Framework More  Comment 

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Current Draft Standards
Document number Edition Title
DIN EN ISO/IEC 29134 2026-03 Information technology - Security techniques - Guidelines for privacy impact assessment (ISO/IEC 29134:2023); German and English version prEN ISO/IEC 29134:2026 More  Read draft and comment
DIN EN 18274 2026-03 Competence requirements for professional AI ethicists; German and English version prEN 18274:2025 More  Read draft and comment
DIN EN 40000-1-1 2026-03 Cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements - Part 1-1: Vocabulary; German and English version prEN 40000-1-1:2025 More  Read draft and comment

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New publications
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DIN CEN/TS 16931-5 2026-03 VN Electronic invoicing - Part 5: Guidelines on the use of sector or country extensions in conjunction with EN 16931-1, methodology to be applied in the real environment; German version CEN/TS 16931-5:2025 More  Order from DIN Media
DIN EN ISO/IEC 19788-1 2026-03 Standard Information technology for learning, education and training - Metadata for learning resources - Part 1: Framework (ISO/IEC 19788-1:2024); German version EN ISO/IEC 19788-1:2025 More  Order from DIN Media
DIN EN ISO/IEC 27019 2026-03 Standard Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection - Information security controls for the energy utility industry (ISO/IEC 27019:2024); German version EN ISO/IEC 27019:2025 More  Order from DIN Media

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