NEWS
CEN and CENELEC are happy to welcome the standardization bodies of Ukraine (DSTU), Georgia (GEOSTM) and Moldova (ISM) as Affiliates. This decision furthers the consolidation of the links between the EU and the three Eastern Partnership countries.
New issue of the CEN-CENELEC newsletter 'On The Spot' is out now!
On 16 November, Small Business Standards (SBS) published a position paper on the standardization strategy published by the European Commission in February 2022, to welcome the strategy’s strong focus on SMEs and inclusiveness in the first stages of its implementation.
On 8 November, ANEC hosted the public webinar ‘Support all consumers through the cost-of-living crisis: ISO 22458, the global standard mutually benefitting companies and customers’.
Horizon Europe is the current EU framework programme for research and innovation (R&I) (2021-2027), with a budget of €95 billion. It aims at supporting researchers and innovators to deploy their ideas to boost growth, trade, and investment, thus creating a significant social and environmental impact.
2022 is the European Year of Youth. To celebrate this occasion, CEN and CENELEC are conducting a campaign, presenting a regular series of interviews with young professionals active in European standardization. In the tenth episode of the series, we get to know Maya Petrova, from Bulgaria.
2022 is the European Year of Youth. To celebrate this occasion, CEN and CENELEC are conducting a campaign, presenting a series of regular interviews with young professionals active in European standardization, all around Europe. In the ninth episode of the series, we get to know Alessia Gaetani, from Italy, who works at the CEN and CENELEC Management Centre.
On 21 October 2022, CEN and CENELEC published new standard on cybersecurity: EN 17640 ‘Fixed-time cybersecurity evaluation methodology for ICT products’ (FiT CEM).
The Workshop will produce a CEN-CENELEC Workshop Agreement (CWA) for a set of protocols to ensure a standardised and formalised selection of processes for Modernising, Refurbishing, Repair, Remanufacturing, and Upgrading of Large Industrial Equipment.
On 4 October 2022, the EU Parliament voted in favour of adopting a common charger for the EU single market, through an amendment to the Radio Equipment Directive (RED), which establishes a single charging solution for small and medium size electronic devices regardless of their manufacturer. Those devices shall be equipped with USB-C receptable at the device side by 2024 to access the EU market. The same requirements will also become applicable to laptops in 2026.