NEWS
The CEN Workshop on was kicked off on 12th December 2025. The Workshop’s registered participants have agreed on the first draft of the CWA.
A new CEN Workshop is being planned as part of the activities of the EU project 'Caring Nature'. This project focuses its energies of developing solutions for reducing the impact of our healthcare systems on the environment.
On 13 April, CEN and CENELEC welcomed Mr El hadji Abdourahmane Ndione, the Director-General of Association Sénégalaise de Normalisation (ASN) and the Chair of ISO DEVCO, to explore areas of shared interest between both organizations.
A new version of EN ISO 14001:2026 ‘Environmental management systems - Requirements with guidance for use’ is now available. EN ISO 14001 is the internationally recognized standard for environmental management systems (EMS). It was drafted by ISO/TC 207/SC 1 ‘Environmental management systems’, in close cooperation with CEN.
Data centres and server rooms are increasingly important in our digitised world. But such areas require an advanced upkeep and use a great amount of energy. Support for our IT infrastructures in an efficient and intelligent manner – digital and physical – is a necessity.
CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, and its Member SIS, the Swedish Institute for Standards, are delighted to announce that Ms Ulrika Francke has been elected as the new President of CEN. Ms Francke, who previously served as the first woman President of ISO, is now making history once again as the first woman to become CEN President.
A new CEN Workshop is being established to build upon the results of the Horizon Europe research and innovation project TIPS4PED (Technological Innovation for Planning and Supporting Positive Energy Districts).
The CEN Workshop on was kicked off on 4th June 2025. The Workshop’s registered participants have agreed on the first draft of the CWA.
It is a rare occurrence in European standardization to see a document jointly developed and endorsed under the three logos of CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI, the three official European Standardization Organizations. The publication of the Technical Report CEN/CLC/ETSI/TR 101551:2026 therefore represents a significant milestone, reflecting the cross-sectoral importance of accessibility in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and its growing relevance within the European policy framework.
After nearly thirty years of improving postal services in Europe, CEN/TC 331 ‘Postal services’ is joining CEN/TC 320 ‘Transport - Logistics and services’, which is thus acquiring a reviewed scope and title as ‘Transport, Logistics and Postal Services’. This transition marks a new chapter for standardization in transport, logistics, and postal services.