CEN and CENELEC concluded Cooperation Agreements with national standardization organizations from countries outside Europe.
These agreements enable the exchange of information and cooperation opportunities on agreed topics, as well as, in some cases, support regulatory dialogues and trade negotiations.
The Cooperation Agreements are tailored to the specific interests of CEN-CENELEC and the concerned partner body.
| CEN-CENELEC-SCC* | Canada | Standards Council of Canada |
| CEN-CENELEC-SAC | China | Standards Administration of China |
| CEN-CENELEC-BIS | India | Bureau of Indian Standards |
| CEN-CENELEC-JISC | Japan | Japanese Industrial Standards Committee |
| CEN-CENELEC-GOST R | Russia | Federal Agency for Technical Regulating and Metrology |
| CEN-CENELEC-KATS | South Korea | Korean Agency for Technology and Standards |
*SCC is also a CEN CSB
In order to strengthen bilateral standardization cooperation between Europe and other regions, CEN and CENELEC concluded several Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with other regional standardization bodies.
These MoUs are developed on an ad-hoc basis in order to fulfil the specific expectations of CEN and CENELEC respective communities and stakeholders and those of their counterparts.
One of the main objectives of these partnerships is for CEN and CENELEC to share their experience as successful regional standardization organizations, as well as to further promote standardization in ISO and IEC.
Some of these MoUs were concluded jointly with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), the third European Standardization Organization.
| CEN-ARSO | Africa | African Organization for Standardization |
| CENELEC-AFSEC | Africa | African Electrotechnical Standardization Commission |
| CEN-CENELEC-ETSI-COPANT | Americas - Caribbean | Pan American Standards Commission |
| CEN-AIDSMO | Arab Countries | Arab Industrial Development, Standardization and Mining Organization |
| CENELEC-AIDSMO | Arab Countries | Arab Industrial Development, Standardization and Mining Organization |
| CEN-CENELEC-CROSQ | Caribbean | CARICOM Regional Organizations for Standards and Quality |
| CEN-CENELEC-ETSI-EASC | Eurasia | Euro-Asian Council for Standardization , Metrology and Certification |
| CEN-CENELEC-EEC | Eurasia | Eurasian Economic Commission |
| CEN-CENELEC-ETSI-GSO | Gulf | Gulf Cooperation Council Standardization Organization |
| CEN-CENELEC-ETSI-AMN | South America | MERCOSUR Standardization Association |
| CEN-CENELEC-SARSO | South Asia | South Asian Regional Standards Organization |
| CEN-SADCSTAN | Southern Africa | Southern African Development Community Cooperation in Standards |
For more information please contact intcoop@cencenelec.eu