NEWS
2022 is the European Year of Youth. To celebrate this occasion, CEN and CENELEC are conducting a campaign, presenting a regular series of interviews with young professionals active in European standardization. In the third episode of the series, we get to know Kristin Fagerli, from Norway.
By the end of 2024, USB-C chargers will become the standard charger for the most commonly used electronics in the EU after an agreement was reached between the European Parliament and the Council. CEN and CENELEC welcome this agreement and look forward to further collaboration on this matter.
As the European Commissioner Thierry Breton said on 7 June during a press event, “It is a great day for consumers and the environment”.
While the legislative process on the proposal for a Regulation laying down harmonised rules on Artificial Intelligence (AI Act) is still ongoing, the European Commission is seeking to speed up the development of standards on AI, with a view to having harmonized standards produced and available by the time the regulation is applicable at the end of 2024/beginning of 2025. To this aim, the Commission issued on 20 May a draft standardization request in support of safe and trustworthy Artificial Intelligence.
CEN and CENELEC welcome the European Commision’s public consultation on the new European Innovation Agenda.
2022 is the European Year of Youth. To celebrate this occasion, CEN and CENELEC are conducting a campaign, presenting a regular series of interviews with young professionals active in European standardization. In the second episode of the series, we get to know Lea Emmel, from Germany.
CEN and CENELEC welcome the European Commission’s public consultation and call for evidence on standard essential patents.
2022 is the European Year of Youth. To celebrate this occasion, CEN and CENELEC decided to launch campaign that will run in the coming months, presenting a series of young professionals active in European standardization. In the first episode of the series, we get to know Kevin Carta, from France.
As a result of a wide-ranging reflection on the future of European Standardization, on 2 February 2022 the European Commission presented the new European Standardization Strategy. The overall objective of the Strategy is to respond to the need for Europe to strengthen the strategic role standards play in the Single and the Global Market.
The Standards+Innovation Awards acknowledge and celebrate every year the important contributions of Researchers, Innovators and Entrepreneurs to Standardization. In 2022, CEN and CENELEC will host the fourth edition of the Standards+Innovation Awards.