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The 45th Meeting of the CROSQ Council, alongside the InDiCo-Global European Standardization System (ESS) Workshop, was held on 9 October 9, 2024, in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The meeting marked a milestone for collaboration between Caribbean and European Standardization Organizations (ESO). The event, co-hosted by CROSQ (CARICOM Regional Organization for Standards and Quality) and InDiCo-Global (Global International Digital Cooperation on Standards and Related Policy), provided a strategic forum for advancing regional and global standards harmonization.
The Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230, which will replace the Machinery Directive (EU) 2006/42 in 2027, continues to set out health and safety requirements for machinery design and construction, which are meant to be implemented through harmonized standards.
As part of the European SME Week 2024, between 25 and 29 November, the Croatian Standards Institute (HZN) invites all entrepreneurs to its Doors Open Days and grants discounts on the purchase of standards.
The jubilee year for the Institute for Standardization of Serbia (ISS) was marked by numerous events, culminating in a Gala Ceremony held on 10 October 2024.
The 2nd RAST Conference, held on October 14 at the Brdo Congress Centre, once again demonstrated that standards are key to shaping a safe, quality, and sustainable future. Experts and representatives from various industries discussed how artificial intelligence and other new technologies are transforming our world and the role that international standards play in this process.
The October issue of the CEN-CENELEC newsletter 'On The Spot' is out now!
CEN, CENELEC and ETSI prepared a recommendation paper on Industrial Data, which was developed by the CEN-CENELEC-ETSI Coordination Group on Smart Manufacturing.
Guide 17 is an important CEN and CENELEC document that aims to raise awareness on the issues that are important to SMEs in the development of standards. For World Standards Day on 14 October 2024, CEN and CENELEC, together with SBS, the European association representing SMEs in standardization, produced a video to facilitate the participation of SMEs in standardization by promoting Guide 17.
On 7 October 2024, CEN and CENELEC co-hosted an extraordinary event on Workstream 9 of the High-Level Forum on Standardization (HLF), dedicated to Green Electricity Systems. The event was co-organized together with T&D Europe, VDE and GIMELEC, and took place at the CEN and CENELEC Management Centre in Brussels. Twenty-one stakeholders from the diverse EU electrical ecosystem participated and gave an overview of the discussions they had during the WS9 sessions.