NEWS
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.
At their 20th Congress held in June 2023, the Austrian trade union and ETUC affiliate, ÖGB, adopted its action programme, which for the first time addresses standardization. The action programme notes in particular that the standard setting activities have increasingly expanded from industrial products to social, societal and socio-political fields.
Agrivoltaics is a new development paradigm that may have wide margins for growth in the future: as the direction taken by the European Union shows, the production of energy from renewable sources should be increased, with a view to privileging sustainable solutions and reducing the reliance on fossil sources.
The July issue of the CEN-CENELEC newsletter 'On The Spot' is out now!
On 1 July, the Croatian Standards Institute (HZN) marked its 18th anniversary. The ceremony, held at the crowded hall of Hotel International in Zagreb, was attended by HZN employees, Croatian experts and officials and representatives of European and international standardization organizations. The event was hosted by Mirjana Fijolić, Head of HZN’s PR Department.
Standards are everywhere in our lives, and they help us live better. To help say this, UNI, the Italian National Standardization Body, has received an exceptional celebrity endorsement: Giovanni Storti (from the famous Italian comedy group Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo), is the leading actor in UNI’s new awareness campaign on the role of standards in everyday life.
An open call for experts, closing on 11 September 2023, has been launched by SBS to ensure that the European SME position will be represented in Technical Committees, Sub-Committees and Working Groups at CEN, CENELEC, ETSI, ISO and IEC.
The 15th ETUC Congress was held from 23 to 26 May 2023 in Berlin, Germany. The event saw the participation of more than 600 national trade union delegates of 93 national trade union organizations from 41 European countries, 10 European sectoral trade union federations, and special guests from Europe and beyond. For four days, European trade union leaders discussed trade union demands and the priorities to ensure a Fair Deal for Workers.
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).
We would like to extend a friendly reminder to our Members that CCMC, along with the SESEI project, will be hosting a Webinar for our Members on "SESEI and India: Priorities and Outlook."