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On Thursday, 10 March, AFNOR (the French Association for Standardization), together with BDVA and Confiance.AI, co-hosted the high-level ‘International Conference Shaping European AI leadership’ in the framework of the French presidency of the European Union. The event, to which participated a wide array of key players in the field of AI coming from standardization organisations, national and European public authorities and the industry, was an opportunity to discuss how voluntary standards can contribute to the development of confidence in Artificial Intelligence and in support of a future EU regulation on AI.
On Tuesday March 8th the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC), together with the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) held a virtual event to celebrate the renewal of their Cooperation Agreement which took place at the end of 2021.
CEN and CENELEC welcome the consultation on the New Legislative Framework as a critical development in the joint efforts to build a harmonised Single Market, which encourages the alignment of strategies for and with the use of standardization as a key asset.
Enterprises and other organizations, as employers, procurers, providers of goods and services or otherwise, are more and more aware of the role they can play to positively contribute to a diverse and inclusive society. Elements of a diverse and inclusive society are, among other things, a labour market that is accessible to all, social trust, economic development and opportunities for all individuals, a socially safe and respectful work environment, opportunities to participate in all parts of society including sports, education (e.g. traineeships), and cultural institutions.
CEN Workshop on 'Key factors for the successful implementation of urban biowaste selective collection schemes’ (KEY-BIOWASTE) - draft CWA is open for public consultation.
The CEN Workshop specifies a methodology for identifying, characterizing, and implementing a single indicator to assess the quality and degradation of agricultural soils and the overall impact of the agriculture processes. The agriculture impacts are assessed through the mechanical, fertilization and irrigation activities associated. Furthermore, soil affection is evaluated accounting with soil erosion and parameters such as nutrients, texture, and organic matter. The developed methodology allows a simple but robust assessment of soil biogeochemical processes and the loss of fertility and degradation.
This planned CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) defines a harmonized CBRN training curriculum to be used and valued by training institutes for first responders in Europe. It considers practitioners’ needs and possesses a modular structure that enables national organizations to build upon, based on their own examples, procedures and experiences.
Bringing together the standardization organizations of 34 European countries, the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) want to express their solidarity with the people of Ukraine.
For a long time SIST, the Slovenian Institute for Standardization, has been trying to bring its work closer to the needs of its members and to carry it out in harmony with the wider Slovenian business environment.
The Lithuanian Standards Board (LST) has opened a public Portal for draft standards. Together with this, two new databases have been launched – Bibliographic database of Lithuanian standards and other standardisation deliverables and Standard terms database.