The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the other Gulf countries are working together to harmonize
their standards since standards ensure a high level of quality, safety, reliability, and efficiency in
the products and services they all use (Richards & Dar, 2009). The best known standards organizations
are: the International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML) in Paris
[http://www.oiml.org/]; the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in Switzerland
[http://www.iso.org/iso/home.html]; the International Electro-technical Commission (IEC) in
Switzerland [http://www.iec.ch/]; the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in