CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality

The CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) is a regional standards body for the Caribbean Community CARICOM-bloc of countries formed by agreement in 2002 in Belize City, Belize.^[1] The body is presently headquartered in Bridgetown, Barbados. It replaced a prior regional institution known as the Caribbean Common Market Standards Council (CCMSC) formed in 1976.^[2]

CROSQ (in Bridgetown)

Partnering national bureaus

•  Antigua and Barbuda – Antigua and Barbuda Bureau of Standards
•  Barbados – Barbados National Standards Institution
•  The Bahamas – Ministry of Lands and Local Government
•  Belize – Belize Bureau of Standards
•  Dominica – Dominica Bureau of Standards
•  Guyana – Guyana National Bureau of Standards
•  Grenada – Grenada Bureau of Standards
•  Jamaica – Bureau of Standards Jamaica
•  Montserrat – Ministry of Economic Development and Trade Department-Development Unit
•  Saint Lucia – St. Lucia Bureau of Standards
•  Saint Kitts and Nevis – St. Kitts and Nevis Bureau of Standards
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – St. Vincent and the Grenadines Bureau of Standards
•  Suriname – Surinaams Standaarden Bureau
•  Trinidad and Tobago – Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards

See also

• World Standards Day
• Bureau international des poids et mesures (BIPM)
• International Standards Organisation (ISO)