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By 2024, the small Republic of San Marino could have its own national standardization body. In the meantime, it has started structuring an accreditation body, with the ambitious goal of European mutual recognition.
To mark the occasion of World Consumer Rights Day on 15 March 2023, ANEC joined the Consumers International social media campaign ‘How can standards help protect consumers through clean energy transitions in the midst of cost-of-living crisis?’
On this World Health Day, CEN and CENELEC examine how standards help strengthen healthcare in all parts of Europe.
In 2023, CEN and CENELEC are happy to announce that they will host the fifth edition of the Standards+Innovation Awards. The Awards acknowledge and celebrate every year the important contributions of the researchers and innovators community to Standardization.
The new issue of the CEN-CENELEC newsletter 'On The Spot' is out now!
On the 28th of March, the Internal Market and Consumer Protection committee of the European Parliament (IMCO) voted to approve the Own Initiative Report on a standardization strategy for the single market. CEN and CENELEC welcome the initiative as a clear sign of the Parliament’s understanding of the importance of European standardization to the functioning of the Single Market.
Today, there exists an extensive number of detection systems, developed all over the world. Each system can be specific for the detection of one or several agents and may be part of a larger system that integrates the information from all individual systems, processes the data and manages the visualization, notification and operation. However, there are sometimes interoperability constraints, and some of the would-be technically optimal subsystems are incompatible with the overall system.
The objective of this CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) is enabling a respondent to a crisis to exchange information across jurisdictions, organisations and borders to other responders, while maintain full control of the information and while using their own terminology and symbology.
Quantum Technology is a promising field in the development of skills to navigate the digital transition. To steer work on standardization in this rapidly advancing field, CEN and CENELEC recently published two important documents: a Standardization Roadmap and a report on Quantum Technologies Use Cases. The two documents provide a comprehensive vision on the European standardization needs for quantum computing, quantum communication and quantum metrology.
Standards have a strong impact on society and contribute to the safety of everyday life. Besides, knowledge of standardization has numerous benefits for the labour market, as it can contribute to the dissemination of new technologies and skills. For this reason, attracting new talent (and especially young professionals) to standardization is key.
The Croatian Standards Institute (HZN) wanted to know how much students know about standards and what they think about the impact of knowledge standardization on career development. HZN’s Department for International Cooperation and Public Relations has therefore conducted a survey about this topic among students at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology of the University of Zagreb, Department of Analytical Chemistry, in cooperation with Danijela Ašperger, Ph.D., professor at the Faculty.