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News
2022-06-10
Common chargers: CEN and CENELEC are ready to work with the European Commission

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.

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EN in the spotlight
2022-05-30
A new standard for the Green Deal: CLC/TS 50600-5-1 on maturity model for the environmental sustainability of data centres

Data centres have a notoriously high demand of resources: the massively increasing demand for IT services of all kinds continues to lead to rising consumption of (among others) electricity, water and refrigerants. Therefore, it is part of the daily business of a data centre operator to optimise facilities and infrastructures in terms of energy consumption and thus improve the environmental sustainability of the data centre.

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EN in the spotlight
2022-04-01
A new Technical Specification fosters ICT education in Europe

To aid in the development of a European Professional ICT workforce, it is important to provide education and training fit to meet the requirements of the ICT professional community. This requires enhanced approaches to address the education of new and existing ICT practitioners and the need for continuous professional development.

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Workshop
2022-03-28
CEN-CENELEC Workshop on 'Age Appropriate Digital Services Framework'

The Workshop’s aim is to define a framework for developing age-appropriate digital services for situations where users are children. This topic is relevant for both organisations, CEN and CENELEC.

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EN in the spotlight
2022-03-28
Discover new EN 17529 on data protection and privacy by design and by default

Privacy and personal data protection are essential in our current society as our offline and digital experiences are increasingly entwined. To ensure that these essential values are taken into account early on in the development of products and services, newly developed EN 17529 ‘Data protection and privacy by design and by default’ provides manufacturers and service providers with requirements before, or independently of, any specific application integration.

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News
2021-11-12
Online workshop “Timely delivery of European standards for a Green and Digital, Single and Global Market”

On Tuesday 16 November (10.00-13.00), CEN and CENELEC are happy to invite you to the online workshop “Timely delivery of European standards for a Green and Digital, Single and Global Market”.

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Press release
2021-09-29
CEN, CENELEC and ETSI held a Workshop on Standards in support of the industrial Data Value Chain

Brussels – 29 September 2021, Industrial data is of ever-increasing importance for companies in Europe and the world, and particularly so in the context of the digitization of industry. On this topic, on Tuesday 28 September, CEN, CENELEC and ETSI co-organised an online stakeholders’ workshop dedicated to exploring how standards can support the industrial data value chain.

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Publications
2021-09-29
Digital in Standards: supporting the Digital Transition through standardization.

The Digital Transition is an opportunity for Europe to boost its competitiveness in global markets.

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News
2021-09-27
CEN and CENELEC organise a series of webinars on Open Source solutions for standardization

 

As part of CEN and CENELEC’s Digital Transformation activities, CEN and CENELEC’s Digital Transformation Project 4 ‘Open Source Solutions’ is looking at ways to incorporate open source approaches into the European standardization ecosystem by December 2022.

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News
2021-09-24
CEN paves the way for the digitalisation of the insurance industry

The insurance business is rapidly migrating from paper-based processes to the digitalization and automation of electronic processes. These electronic business processes take place between independent organizations, which leads to a variety of information formats being used. In order to facilitate this information exchange, there is a need for the standardization of the data formats being used. 

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