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With the rising tide of cyber threats, the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) aims to ensure stronger cybersecurity standards for digital products across the Single Market. To support this legislation, CEN and CENELEC have launched the STAN4CR Project, designed to accelerate the development of crucial cybersecurity standards.
The Bulgarian Institute for Standardization (BDS) and the Romanian Standards Association (ASRO), in collaboration with four universities, have just completed the implementation of a two-year project, B-Green-ED – Boosting the Green Future via University Micro-Credentials, which was funded by the European Commission's Erasmus+ Programme.
Erik Vladimir Simić, Young Standardization Ambassador at the Slovenian Institute for Standardization (SIST), shares his experience of visiting the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI), meeting experts and exchanging about young professionals in standardization.
To mark World Standards Day on 14 October, ANEC joined the dedicated social media campaign ’Shared vision for a better world: Spotlight on SDG 9 ‘Industry, innovation, and infrastructure in the age of AI’, organized by the international standardization organizations: IEC, ISO and ITU.
Participate in Meeting Standards 2024 (Nov 25-29) and discover insights, inspiration, and practical tips to make SMEs and their organizations aware of the importance of standards and to encourage them to get involved in shaping them.
The ETUC co-organized an awareness event around standardization and its relevance for trade unions with affiliate UNI Europa, the European Services Workers Union.
From now on, CEN and CENELEC grant access to the bibliographies of their homegrown standards and standard publications, thus complementing the bibliographic information that is already available on the ISO website for international standards.
ANEC was pleased to contribute to the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO Committee)’s exchange on the “European Standardization Policy: Exchange of Views with the Commission” on 5 September 2024 at the European Parliament.
The European Commission is currently proceeding with the evaluation of Regulation 1025/2012 on European Standardization to determine whether the legislation is still fit for purpose as the basis for the European standardization system. In the framework of the evaluation, the EC launched a public consultation over the summer, to which the ETUC replied, together with a number of trade unions.
The new political mandate of the EU institutions, along with the ongoing evaluation of Regulation 1025/2012 on European standardization and the calls for a stronger and more competitive Single Market of the Letta and Draghi reports, put SMEs and standardization at a crossroads. Understanding the importance of this moment, SBS publishes its “Manifesto for the 2024–2029 EU term – SMEs at the heart of European standardization.”