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On 12 July 2024, the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act was published in the EU Official Journal, making it the first comprehensive horizontal legal framework in the world for the regulation of AI systems across the EU aiming to harmonize rules on Artificial Intelligence. As an internal market regulation, a standardization request issued by the European Commission tasks European Standardization Organizations CEN and CENELEC to develop AI standards providing the presumption of conformity to the law. The AI Act further mandates that CEN and CENELEC “take the necessary steps to facilitate an appropriate representation and effective participation of relevant stakeholders”. In this context and considering the impact AI will likely have on society at large, the dedicated CEN-CENELEC Joint Technical Committee for AI (JTC 21) has created a dedicated task group (TG) on inclusiveness to help facilitate the participation of all relevant stakeholders in AI standardization.

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.

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On The Spot Newsletter - Issue 21 • February 2021

The CEN and CENELEC Joint Technical Committee 14 ‘Energy management and energy efficiency in the framework of energy transition’ announces the publication of the new standard EN 17669:2022 ‘Energy Performance Contracts-Minimum requirements’ developed by their Working Group 4 ‘Energy financial aspects’.

European Standards support the EU ambitions on Artificial Intelligence

On 4 February, over 350 participants joined the high-impact webinar titled Implementing the EU AI Act through Standards. The webinar was organised by the AI Standards Hub and the CEN-CENELEC JTC 21 AI Inclusiveness Task Group (TG).

The 2021 edition of the CEN and CENELEC Standards+Innovation Technical Body Officer Awards, a biennial award presented to a technical body officer who actively and successfully collaborated with researchers/innovators within his/her technical body, was presented in Brussels on Tuesday 7 December 2021.