ASD-STAN is an association which establishes, develops and maintains standards on behalf of that European aerospace industry. ASD-STAN publishes and sells online its own standards-library documents and is a distributor for the independently produced UK ADS standards-library.

It is well recognised as the European body for the development of global aerospace standards by the International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG).

Over the years, ASD-STAN has established a lean and streamlined standardisation process for European aerospace standards in agreement with the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). However, reducing the lead-time for the standards development process in accordance with industry needs remains a constant goal of ASD-STAN.

In 2017 ASD-STAN published 72 new Projected European Norms (ASD-STAN prEN), in addition to transforming 123 prEN to European Norms (EN). 2374 ENs  have been published by CEN based upon ASD-STAN prepared prENs (12% of the total EN production).