Sharing experience

The contribution of environmental organizations to standardization greatly helps to improve the quality of European standards, by ensuring they are relevant, fit for purpose, and take into account environmental interests.

Environmental organizations can and have often made a difference! Since 2001, the Environmental Coalition on Standards, ECOS, has taken a leading role in spearheading environmental protection in the development of standards on behalf of European environmental non-profit organizations. Check-out some examples on ECOS’ website.

Your feedback on your participation in standardization can help National Standards Bodies and National Committees to better involve societal experts, or to do so more systematically. Share with them your suggestions and comments!


National members of CEN and CENELEC further seek to gather views, experiences, feedback and information from users for them to evaluate and potentially improve and/or develop standards. They may also provide additional channels for giving user feedback e.g. through questionnaires, online tools, social media etc. Or even provide the means for users to network and share experiences, for example through standards user panels.


Send your feedback by contacting your CEN National Standardization Body or CENELEC National Committee.

CEN and CENELEC strive to provide standards that meet user needs. To achieve this, we want contributions from expert users to develop new standards, as well as maintain and improve existing ones. This means that your feedback from using individual standards, and your experience of using the services provided by CEN and CENELEC and our members is valuable and welcome.

Send your feedback about the information and support services provided by CEN and CENELEC

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