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Workshop
2022-02-18
CEN Workshop Agreement on 'Emergency Management - Rapid damage assessment of buildings and alerting protocol'

The planned CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) specifies a framework that aims to cover the rapid assessment of damage in buildings and disseminate the related results/alerts to the command-and-control centres of the agencies that manage the emergency. The results of the Workshop will be used by:

  • the security officers of the critical infrastructures that will be monitored for damages,
  • the officers of the authorities that should be informed about a damaged building to coordinate the response activities, and
  • the Command & Control system manufacturers and developers.
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News
2022-02-17
Standardization in support of civil-defence synergies: read CEN and CENELEC’s new Position Paper
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Workshop
2022-02-15
CEN Workshop Agreement on 'Improvement of information processing in crisis management of critical infrastructures for computer assisted data gathering, display and reporting'

The planned CEN Workshop is aimed to develop two CEN Workshop Agreements (CWAs):

  • Draft title CWA 1- Semantic layer definition and suitability of EDXL-CAP+EDXL-SitRep standards for crisis management in Critical Infrastructures
  • Draft title CWA 2- Emergency management – Incident situational reporting for Critical Infrastructures
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News
2022-02-14
CEN and CENELEC met with the European Commission to discuss the future of European Standardization

On Friday 11 February, CEN and CENELEC were happy to host Kerstin Jorna, Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), at their Brussels headquarters.

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Workshop
2022-02-11
CEN Workshop Agreement on "Guidelines for effective social media messages in crisis and disaster management"

This standardization initiative aims to develop a document that will provide a set of recommendations for the content, design and formulation of social media early warnings in crisis and disaster management towards the public.

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Workshop
2022-02-11
Draft CEN Workshop on 'City Resilience Development – Framework and guidance for implementation with a specific focus on historic areas'

While negative impacts of climate-related and other hazards on urban areas are widely discussed, their impacts on historic areas within cities and communities have not been studied extensively enough. 

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News
2022-02-10
CEN and CENELEC took part to the EU Industry Days 2022

On Wednesday, 9 February, Elena Santiago Cid, CEN and CENELEC’s Director General, participated as a speaker to the high-level panel “Standardisation in support of the twin transition of industrial SMEs”. The debate was organised by the European Commission in the framework of the EU Industry Days, Europe’s flagship annual event dedicated to the European industry. In particular, the 2022 edition was focussed on the industry’s role in the EU’s twin digital and green transition.

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Workshop
2022-02-08
CEN Workshop Agreement on "Requirements for acquiring digital information from victims during Search and Rescue operations"

This planned CEN Workshop specifies the requirements for acquiring digital information from victims during a search and rescue SAR operations. Furthermore, it establishes requirements of digital triaging during a search and rescue mission regarding the categories of safety, usability, data protection, security and system compatibility.

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EN in the spotlight
2022-02-07
Discover new EN 17483-1 on the protection of critical infrastructure

The protection of critical infrastructure is essential in complex societies as the ones we are all living in. To  optimise the protection through prevention, CEN recently developed new standard EN 17483-1 ‘Private security services - Protection of critical infrastructure - Part 1: General requirements’.

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Press Release
2022-02-02
CEN and CENELEC welcome the new European Standardization Strategy

CEN and CENELEC, two of the three officially recognised European Standardization Organizations, welcome the new European Standardization Strategy which reinforces the common efforts to deliver on the ambitions of the twin transition.

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