NEWS
The European Commission, through the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA), is funding experts to join the TRUST project. It is a strategic initiative which primary objective is to provide, for road restraint systems, a technical contribution in support of Regulation (EU) 2024/3110 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2024 laying down harmonized rules for the marketing of construction products and repealing Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 and CPR Acquis.
This year’s Meeting Standards campaign took place between 22 and 30 June, organized by Small Business Standards (SBS). The week culminated in the SBS Awards 2026, the inaugural SBS Awards ceremony that recognizes the experts and standards that strengthen the role of small and medium-sized enterprises in European standardization. The Standard of the Year 2025 was won by EN ISO 27799:2026 ‘Health informatics’, developed by CEN/TC 251.
As Ireland takes on the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, CEN and CENELEC, together with our Irish Member, the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI), warmly welcome the start of this important chapter for Europe. We look forward to working closely with the Irish Presidency over the next six months to support its priorities and help deliver concrete results for citizens and businesses across Europe.
The June issue of the CEN and CENELEC newsletter 'On the Spot' is out now!
The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) aims to address the increasing cybersecurity threats faced by hardware and software products by setting essential cybersecurity requirements for manufacturers, with stricter assessments for important and critical products. The European Commission has issued a standardisation request to the ESOs for the development of deliverables to support the implementation of the CRA.
In March 2026, the CENELEC Technical Committee CLC/TC 111X ‘Environment’ published a new standard on the quantification and communication of carbon footprint and GHG emissions reduction from electric and electronic products. At a time when climate transparency is becoming a key expectation across global markets, this standard offers a harmonized approach to assessing and communicating environmental performance.
Innovation is often associated with breakthrough technologies, disruptive business models, and visionary entrepreneurs. Yet the ability to transform an idea into a commercially successful product or service depends on something far less visible: the infrastructure that enables innovation to scale.
The Edu4Standards.eu project, funded by Horizon Europe, has set up the first European student network around standardization, called the European Students’ Standardization Association (ESSA).
The Cyprus Organisation for Standardisation (CYS), under the auspices of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2026, successfully hosted the CEN and CENELEC Annual Meeting from 16 to 19 June 2026 in Agia Napa, Cyprus.
Standards. All of them. This was the starting point of "Standards4Future Skills – Hack Your Way Into the Industry", the Academic Standards Day organized by ASRO on 28 May 2026 at the "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iași, Romania, as part of the Edu4Standards project.