NEWS
From 23 to 30 September 2021, Europe celebrates the European Week of Sports. This year's theme highlights the power of physical activity to bring joy, build resilience and connect generations.
Improving the way to measure particulate emissions of road vehicles, and thus contributing to reducing transport pollution? This is now possible, thanks to recently published standard EN 17507 ‘Road vehicles - Portable Emission Measuring Systems (PEMS) - Performance assessment’.
On 5 October, CEN and CENELEC are happy to host the third edition of the Standards+Innovation Awards.
The three European Standardization Organizations - CEN, CENELEC and ETSI – are proud to host the stakeholders’ engagement workshop ‘Standards in support of the industrial data value chain’ on 28 September, from 14.00 to 17.30.
CEN and CENELEC are calling for participants in their “Standards of the future – machine readable” project.
On 8 September (11.00-13.00, Brussels time), Elena SANTIAGO CID, CEN and CENELEC’s Director General, will speak at the high-level event organised by DIGITALEUROPE “The future of IoT security: What's next?”.
Brussels, 1 September 2021 - CEN (European Committee for Standardization) and CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization) are proud to announce that their brand new website is now live. The two European standardization organisations are happy to provide all stakeholders interested in European standardization with an improved digital presence - faster, more dynamic and user friendly.
Together with the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) and the German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (DKE) of DIN and VDE and the Association of German Engineers (VDI) have announced the launch of the German Standardization Roadmap Circular Economy.
The European Commission invited a wide range of stakeholders to contribute to the roadmap consultation for the forthcoming “Standardization Strategy”. The deadline for feedback was the 9th of August. 138 contributions were submitted, including ETUC’s, and are publicly available here.
From counting calories to tracing COVID-19, there are hundreds of thousands of health and wellness apps on the market, and appetite for them is only growing. However, many have access to highly sensitive personal information, whilst others may offer advice that is not always supported by scientific evidence. In order to effectively evaluate the quality and reliability of such apps, a new technical specification has just been published.