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Press release
2025-05-21
CEN and CENELEC’s response to the Single Market Strategy

CEN and CENELEC have long supported the Single Market, with standardization being key to its success for over thirty years. While we share the view that the Single Market and the European Standardization System must evolve to meet the increasingly complex challenges posed by emerging technologies and faster innovation cycles, the Strategy issued today by the European Commission rightly recognizes standards as the cornerstone of the Single Market, providing legal certainty to business, facilitating access to new technologies, and boosting competitiveness.

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News
2025-05-20
Celebrating 150 years of the Metre Convention

Today, on 20 May 2025, CEN and CENELEC are happy to join the European Quality Infrastructure Network to celebrate World Metrology Day.

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Research & Innovation
2025-05-16
New Horizon Europe Work Programme released - emphasis on Standardization grows!

This week the European Commission published the long-awaited Work Programme for 2025-2026 which sets out the R&I funding opportunities under Horizon Europe. Horizon Europe with is the largest R&I programme of the EU to date has as overarching goal to contribute to the green and digital transition as well as to building a united, more competitive, fairer and more resilient Europe.

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Policy
2025-05-09
Happy Europe Day!

Brussels, May 9, 2025 – Happy Europe Day from CEN and CENELEC! In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, Europe not only reflects back on the hopes of peace, integration and democratic cooperation in Europe, but the day where the foundation of the European Union was solidified. One notable success of this cooperation has and continues to be the European Single Market.

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Newsletter
2025-05-01
On the Spot - Issue 61 • April 2025

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

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Call for tender
2025-04-30
Open Call for Tender for 2 Project Team Experts to contribute to the drafting of a new European standard (EN) on accessibility of recharging stations for electric road vehicles

The objective of this Open Call for Tender is the selection of 2 Project Team Experts in the field of accessibility. PT Expert 1 will have expertise in the field of accessibility of the built environment and on ergonomics and PT Expert 2 will focus on Design for All and ICT accessibility.

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Call for tender
2025-04-28
Open Call for Tender for a web interface development and maintenance

This tender is being run in the context of a project called Readability Platforms that will, amongst other things, support the European Commission in its conformity with Regulation 1049 regarding citizen access to documents.

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News
2025-04-17
Standards keep your chocolate safe and sustainable

Happy Easter to those who celebrate! As you have probably noticed, shelves are full of chocolate eggs and Easter bunnies this time of year. But did you know that standards play a big role in making sure you can safely enjoy your sweet treats?

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EN in the spotlight
2025-04-16
A Risk-Based Approach to Sectoral Cybersecurity: Introducing EN 18037:2025

In an increasingly digital world, ensuring consistent and robust cybersecurity across complex, multi-stakeholder systems is more critical than ever. The new European Standard EN 18037:2025 ‘Guidelines on a sectoral cybersecurity assessment’, developed by JTC 13 ‘Cybersecurity and Data Protection’, fills this gap by specifying an approach for the risk-based identification of cybersecurity, certification, and assurance requirements for ICT products, processes, and services within complex, multi-stakeholder sectoral systems.

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Research & Innovation
2025-04-14
Help Shape the Future of Knowledge Valorisation – Participate in the EU Survey on the Codes of Practice

CEN and CENELEC are pleased to support the dissemination of the survey launched by the European Commission on the Codes of Practice for Knowledge Valorisation, adopted between 2023 and 2024.

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