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Newsletter
2024-03-18
On the spot - Issue 50 • March 2024

The March issue of the CEN-CENELEC newsletter 'On The Spot' is out now!

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Press release
2024-03-15
CEN, CENELEC, EA, EURAMET, and WELMEC join forces to reinforce and promote the European Quality Infrastructure

On 7 March, the five Regional Quality Infrastructure Organizations of Europe, the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), the European Committee for electrotechnical standardization (CENELEC), the European co-operation for Accreditation (EA), the Association of the National Metrology Institutes in Europe (EURAMET), and the European Cooperation in Legal Metrology (WELMEC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create the European Ql Network.

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Publications
2024-03-14
Read CEN and CENELEC’s new brochure on standards for sustainability reporting

CEN and CENELEC have published a brochure showcasing how standards can be used to support companies’ Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals and what role they can play in ESG reporting.

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Call for tender
2024-03-12
Open calls for tender related to the Interlaboratory studies on Organic and organo-mineral fertilizers
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Call for tender
2024-03-12
Call for tenders for the organisation of microbiological interlaboratory studies of several European Standards concerning soil improvers and growing media

This call concerns the organisation of interlaboratory studies and their statistical evaluation for several European Standards concerning soil improvers (PFC 3), growing media (PFC 4) and some Component Material Categories (CMCs) to validate microbial methods, which fall under the responsibility of CEN/TC 223 ‘Soil improvers and growing media’.

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Workshop
2024-03-11
CEN Workshop on 'Guidelines for characterization of extracts for the recycling/upcycling of organic agrifood wastes'

This workshop is motivated by the currently ongoing Horizon 2020 AGRO2CIRCULAR project (TERRITORIAL CIRCULAR SYSTEMIC SOLUTION FOR THE UPCYCLING OF RESIDUES FROM THE AGRIFOOD SECTOR), whose general objective is the implementation of the first territorial systemic solution for the upcycling of most relevant residues in the agrifood sector (fruits&vegetables and plastic multilayers) into high added value products, powered by a digital tool and constructed upon a systemic approach with high replicable/scalable potential.

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News
2024-03-08
International Women’s Day 2024: a new standard helps ensure the safety and quality of menstrual products

On International Women’s Day, CEN and CENELEC are happy to join the celebrations and highlight their efforts to achieve full gender equality and support women everywhere.

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News
2024-03-07
Navigating through Challenges and Opportunities of Cybersecurity Standardization

On 5 March, the European Standardization Organizations (ESOs), CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, joined forces with ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, to organize their 8th Cybersecurity Standardization Conference.

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Policy
2024-03-05
Copyright protection of Harmonized Standards not in question – however, there is an overriding public interest in their disclosure

Today, 5 March 2024, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered its judgment in Case C-588/21 P concerning public access to four Harmonized Standards under Regulation 1049/2001.

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Workshop
2024-03-04
CEN Workshop on characterizing polyvinyl butyral (PVB) recyclates

Laminated glass is obtained by bonding glass layers using a polymeric interlayer. One polymer used as interlayer is polyvinyl butyral (PVB). Up to now, most of the post-consumer PVB material in laminated glass is incinerated or landfilled, and only 9 % are recycled in secondary uses. Recycling of PVB presents several difficulties related with the contents of glass, humidity, mixing of compositions and polymer optical degradation.

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