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A Memorandum of Understanding enhances the commitment to develop maximum synergies between the different European Standards developed by EFRAG and by CEN and CENELEC in the field of sustainability reporting. The aim is to facilitate the implementation of sustainability reporting requirements for European businesses.

Elena Santiago Cid, CEN and CENELEC’s Director General, spoke at the “Cooperating on Digital Policy and Tech Standards” panel during the dedicated hybrid stakeholder roundtable at the occasion of the third Ministerial Meeting of the Trade and Technology Council (TTC) between the EU and the US. The TTC is a key forum to deepen transatlantic cooperation to facilitate trade and develop global standards on technology and security.

On the spot - Issue 37 • October/November 2022

The first meeting of the new four-year term of the ANEC General Assembly was held in Brussels on 14 & 15 June 2023. It saw elections to the Office Bearer posts of the association, as well as to the Steering Committee (the board of ANEC).

Autumn is just around the corner and SIST, the Slovenian Institute for Standardizatoin, are already working hard to organise a major international event to mark World Standards Day 2023. The event will take place on 16 October 2023 at the Congress Centre Brdo and will be called RAST Conference.

The ETUC participated to the second meeting of the European Commission’s High-Level Forum on Standardization (HLF), held in Brussels on Thursday 30 November. The Forum, chaired by Commissioner Thierry Breton, gathered the various stakeholders involved in standardization to discuss priorities and horizontal issues, including international leadership and education and skills.

In a key step toward strengthening global standardization ties, CEN and CENELEC participated in the 9th General Assembly of the African Electrotechnical Standardization Commission (AFSEC) in Kigali, Rwanda, on 4-5 September 2024.

ISO/TC 260 on Human Resource Management is currently looking at preparing an international standard on ‘Guidance for risk management and the ethical use and adoption of technology’. The aim is to propose measures to mitigate the human capital risks and provide guidance for the use and adoption of technology for HR processes / practices and job roles. The ETUC is opposing the proposed work as the development of such a standard raises a number of concerns.

On 25 June 2025, the second Steering Committee meeting of the SESEI 6 project (Seconded European Standardization Expert in India) was held, gathering all project partners: CEN, CENELEC, ETSI, several Directorates from the European Commission, as well as EFTA.