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Are you a standard user looking for clearer, more user-friendly standards? Do you draft standards but want the process to be more efficient and modern? SMART standards are here to help.

Standards help Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to increase productivity and reach wider markets CEN, the European Committee for Standardization and CENELEC, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization, provide information, tools and support to explain the benefits of standards, how to use them and how to participate in the process of developing standards

Patents and Standards In many sectors of economic activity, companies make significant investments of financial and human resources in the development of new technologies and products

The CEN/XFS Workshop encourages the participation of both banks and vendors in the deliberations required to create an industry standard

The CEN/XFS Workshop encourages the participation of both banks and vendors in the deliberations required to create an industry standard

A new CEN Workshop is being planned which will complement the activities of the EU Research project ETERNAL. The mission of this project is to contribute to the safe and sustainable development of pharmaceutical manufacture, use and disposal.

Two standards have recently been published on patient handling equipment used in ambulances, developed by CEN/TC 239 ‘Rescue Systems’. EN 1865-2:2024 improves the performance of power assisted stretchers while EN 1865-6:2024 specifies requirements for powered chairs. These standards address safety and performance gaps, helping to protect both patients and caregivers.

Because of their broader relevance, three CWAs (one CWA addressing the ‘Journalism Trust Initiative’ and Two CWAs addressing Standards Essential Patents in IoT and hence of interest to the R&I community) are also made available for download here below: CWA 17431:2019 Principles and guidance for licensing Standard Essential Patents in 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT), including the Industrial Internet CWA 95000:2019 Core Principles and Approaches for Licensing of Standard Essential Patents CWA 17493:2019 (English version) Journalism Trust Initiative CWA 17493:2019 (French version) Initiative pour la fiabilité de l'informatique et les bonnes pratiques journalistiques CWA 18016:2023 Age appropriate digital services framework CWAs resulting from an EU-funded project (or more generally a Europe-wide project with public co-funding) are made available for download under this arrangement from this page: CWA 17145-1:2017 Ethics assessment for research and innovation - Part 1:Ethics committee (SATORI) CWA 17145-2:2017 Ethics assessment for research and innovation - Part 2:Ethical impact assessment framework (SATORI) CWA 17185:2017 Methodology for Improving the Resource Efficiency of Energy Intensive Industrial Processes (TOP-REF) CWA 17284:2018 Materials modelling - Terminology, classification and metadata (MODENA) CWA 17260:2018 Guidelines on evaluation systems and schemes for physical security products (HECTOS) CWA 17300:2018 City Resilience Development - Operational Guidance (SMR) CWA 17301:2018 City Resilience Development - Maturity Model (SMR) CWA 17302:2018 City Resilience Development - Information Portal (SMR) CWA 17335:2018 Terminologies in crisis and disaster management (DRIVER+) CWA 17354:2018 Industrial Symbiosis: Core Elements and Implementation Approaches (SHAREBOX and EPOS) CWA 17381:2019 The Description and Assessment of Good Practices for Smart City solutions (SMARTER TOGETHER) CWA 17382:2020 Sustainable Energy Retrofit Process Management for Multi-Occupancy Residential Buildings with Owner Communities (SMARTER TOGETHER) CWA 17384:2019 Articulated industrial robots - Elastostatic compliance calibration (COROMA) CWA 17437:2019 Innovative and adaptable envelopes over existing façades in building refurbishment - Design, economic assessment, logistics and installation guidelines (BRESAER) CWA 17453:2019 Bionic Aircraft - Optimized ALM support structures made from Al alloys CWA 17454:2019 Bionic Aircraft - Quality control of metal ALM parts using the Ultrasonic Technique CWA 17484:2020 Anaerobic digestion plants - Feasibility assessment methodology for integrating a Volatile Fatty Acid Platform Technology (VOLATILE) CWA 17486:2019 Verification of performance levels of Galileo Enabled mass-market receivers CWA 17492:2020 Predictive control and maintenance of data intensive industrial processes (MONSOON) CWA 17494:2020 Analytics Insights and Scaling Policies for Microservices (UNICORN) CWA 17502:2020 Privacy of monitoring technology - Guidelines for introducing ambient and wearable monitoring technologies balancing privacy protection against the need for oversight and care (REACH2020) CWA 17513:2020 Crisis and disaster management - Semantic and syntactic interoperability (DRIVER+) CWA 17515:2020 Building a common simulation space (DRIVER+) CWA 17514:2020 Systematic assessment of innovative solutions for crisis management - Trial guidance methodology (DRIVER+²) CWA 17541:2020 European Criteria for Quality Internships CWA 50714:2020 Reference model for distribution application for microgrids CWA 17663:2021 Measurement of Worker Satisfaction in Automated Systems - Methodology CEN Workshop Agreement CWA 50271:2021 Recommendations for a modular and cross-cutting Power Take-Off for wave energy direct drive linear solutions

Our series on young professionals in European standardization continues in 2025. The first interview in this year's series involves Michal Bugala from Slovakia, working as an expert in acoustics and vibrations at a private accredited testing laboratory that provides a wide range of acoustic services. He expressed the importance of standardization for acoustics and vibrations, the added value young professionals can bring to standardization, and how standards can help address current challenges, among other topics.