EVENTS

Third meeting of the High-Level Forum on Standardization will take place on January 29, 2025 in the Berlaymont building.

As a new Joint Technical Committee, JTC 23 is aiming to introduce the purpose of the committee to a wider audience of experts. The established Working Groups will introduce and present their ideas for work items and will inform prospective experts so that they can participate in the Working Groups. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and give feedback on the proposed topics. PPE Topics to be covered will include Ensembles, Comfort, Sustainability, Ergonomics, Inclusiveness, SMART, Durability, Fire and Rescue.

The new EU Nature Restoration Law is the first continent-wide, comprehensive law of its kind and is a key element of the EU Biodiversity Strategy, which sets binding targets to restore degraded ecosystems, in particular those with the most potential to capture and store carbon and to prevent and reduce the impact of natural disasters.
This webinar will present core information on the Nature Restoration Law and related activities and investigate the potential of standardization to support the objectives of the Nature Restoration Law and biodiversity policy in general.

Join this webinar to know more about how we can make standards work for SMEs! The webinar, organised by Small Business Standards and CEN and CENELEC, will explore how CEN-CENELEC Guide 17 helps ensure that standards are developed with SMEs in mind, making them simpler to implement. We'll discuss the key elements of the guide, why it's crucial for the broader uptake of standards, and how making standards SME-friendly benefits all businesses. Don't miss this opportunity to discover how much you have to gain from using Guide 17 and how its use can contribute to ensure standards contribute to the competitiveness of SMEs and the wider economy.

The aim of this event is to build upon work delivered under Mandate M/526 as issued by the European Commission, where infrastructure sectors were prioritized and their standardization needs in terms of climate change adaptation identified. We want to explore the findings of M/526 and add to that work with our stakeholders, to confirm their needs in order to tackle long term infrastructure resilience.

The standardisation of low-carbon cement is a key issue for the decarbonization of the construction industry. The cement industry accounts for around 7-8% of global greenhouse gas emissions (4% in Europe). In view of the revision of the Construction Products Regulation and the existence of non-harmonised standards covering the various components of the construction sector, the High Level Forum on European Standardisation (HLF) explored actions to facilitate and accelerate the use of these innovative products.

How can we make our electricity systems greener and more efficient? What role do standards play in ensuring the sustainability and efficiency of these systems from end to end? Join industry leaders and experts to explore these critical questions at our upcoming workshop, "Green Electricity Systems: End-to-End Solutions Leveraging Standards for Efficiency."

This training will equip TCs and their Working Groups (WGs) on how to use the “Tailored Guidance for Standardization Technical Committees” to identify climate issues in their standards and to address these in line with the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change. This training will identify TCs and WGs that identify as able to proceed with minimum further assistance, and those that require more support on climate change adaptation from our experts.

In July 2024, a new HLF workstream on Quantum let by Italy as member state has started its work. This topic is well developed under our CEN/CENELEC JTC22 which standardization roadmap on Quantum became the key material for further work of this working group. The leader of the WS16 on Quantum, Ministero delle Imprese a del Made in Italy, is organizing a workshop on which the stakeholders of the standardization system will have a chance to lead expert discussions which will be used as basis for summary report and recommendations.

Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 amending Regulation (EU) 910/2014 on electronic identities, authentication and signatures (eIDAS 2) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union this spring 2024. This amendment establishes an ambitious European Digital Identity Framework with digital identity wallets and a number of new trust services.