The history of ISO 9001 series up to ISO 9001:2000

Nowadays ISO 9001 standards are highly widespread in the business world. Many international organization use it in its everyday business practice to standardize and manage their business processes. This paper concentrate on the history of ISO 9001 standard. There is an description of first two versions on the mentioned standards – ISO 9001:1994 and ISO:2000. The aim of the paper is to analyze first years of the ISO 9001 systems from its beginning up to ISO 9001:2000 version of the standards.