Most of the ISO Standards on anti-counterfeiting technologies provide guidance that is geared towards technology providers rather than users. The two Standards that are most relevant for the purpose of this Guide aim to establish common rules and criteria so as to foster the development and implementation of solutions that are interoperable and, therefore, more widely usable.

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The two ISO Standards geared towards providers of anti-counterfeiting technologies that are worth mentioning are:

• ISO 22378:2022 – Guidelines for interoperable object identification and related authentication systems to deter counterfeiting and illicit trade.
  
  This Standard provides guidelines for improving the interoperability between object identification systems and authentication systems. It does not focus on specific solutions, but instead describes the different processes, functions and functional units by using a generic model to illustrate what the solutions have in common and where greater interoperability can be achieved.

• ISO 22381:2018 – Security and resilience – Authenticity, integrity and trust for products and documents – Guidelines for establishing interoperability among object identification systems to deter counterfeiting and illicit trade.
  
  This Standard provides guidelines for making the object identification and authentication systems described in ISO 22378:2022 interoperable with other, independently functioning object identification systems and related authentication systems.