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Summer may be winding down, but the sunshine and good vibes are not over yet. Whether you are just back from a long-awaited holiday or squeezing in one last trip, let us take a look at all the standards that have been working quietly in the background to make sure your adventures are safe, carefree, and fun.

September has arrived, and this means that for most of us, the holidays are over: adults are heading back to work, and children are getting ready for a new school year. But behind the excitement of fresh notebooks and new classrooms lies a hidden world that keeps learning safe, comfortable, and fun: European Standards.

Electric vehicle (EV) batteries are built to last, but what happens when they no longer serve their original application? A newly published European Standard, EN 18061:2025, sets out clear rules for the safe repair, reuse, and preparation for repurposing of batteries and modules originally designed for EV applications.

Halloween may be the season of ghosts and ghouls, but when it comes to safety and sustainability, there is nothing spooky about European Standards. From glowing pumpkins to compostable candy wrappers, standards help make sure that our celebrations stay both fun and responsible.

For the 6th episode in this year’s interview series, we spoke with Enguerrand Crouzet, currently studying at EPF Engineering School. Enguerrand completed a four-month internship at CCMC, where he worked, among other tasks, on a study related to CEN and CENELEC Workshop Agreements. He shares his experience, his perspective on the value of standardization, and what it is like to be a young professional in this field.

The holiday season is a time of celebration, generosity, and togetherness. Homes are filled with festive lights, carefully wrapped gifts, and tables laden with seasonal treats. Behind this familiar Christmas magic, however, lies an invisible but essential framework that helps ensure safety, quality, and sustainability: European Standards.

Screwed and bolted joints are often used to assemble safety-critical components on rail vehicles. The function of a bolted joint is to connect two or more parts in a sufficient and safe manner over the intended service life under the conditions of the railway environment. Bolted joints have huge implications for the safety of railway equipment: on the mechanical level, they are designed to transmit forces between the connected components without failure, separation or relative movement. On the electrical level, they are designed to ensure current transmission between electrical conductors safely and without separation or relative movement.

CENELEC published a new important standard for the railway community. Developed by CLC/TC 9X ‘Electrical and electronic applications for railways’, EN 50388-2:2025 ‘Fixed installations and rolling stock for railway applications - Technical criteria for the coordination between electric traction power supply systems and rolling stock to achieve interoperability - Part 2: Stability and harmonics’ establishes the acceptance criteria, according to EN 50388-1:2022, for the compatibility between traction units and power supply for known phenomena and known technologies.

In an increasingly digital world, ensuring consistent and robust cybersecurity across complex, multi-stakeholder systems is more critical than ever. The new European Standard EN 18037:2025 ‘Guidelines on a sectoral cybersecurity assessment’, developed by JTC 13 ‘Cybersecurity and Data Protection’, fills this gap by specifying an approach for the risk-based identification of cybersecurity, certification, and assurance requirements for ICT products, processes, and services within complex, multi-stakeholder sectoral systems.

Every year, thousands of lives are lost on European roads due to serious car crashes. While emergency services do their best, precious time can be lost when accidents occur in remote locations or when drivers are too injured to call for help. What if your car could call emergency services for you? This is exactly what the Pan-European eCall system does – and a newly updated standard ensures it works even better.