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Press release
2021-10-11
Enormous potential for the future: 30 years of Vienna Agreement

 

Brussels/Vienna – 12 October 2021 - Thirty years ago, the global economy was placed on a new footing in Vienna: the Vienna Agreement set the course for even closer co-operation and collaboration. What has changed since then? Fewer barriers to trade, more harmonized rules and more room for innovation. Under the heading "From global to local: Joining forces to help global standards create local impact", the leaders of international standardization organizations such as CEN and ISO met again in Vienna on 11 October to further advance international co-operation.

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Research & Innovation
2021-10-06
Standards+Innovation Awards 2021

The 2021 edition of the CEN and CENELEC Standards+Innovation Awards was presented on Tuesday 5 October 2021 to celebrate and acknowledge the important contribution of research and innovation to standardization.

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International Cooperation
2021-10-01
Standards one of the priority at the EU-US Trade and Technology Council

Standards is one of the main elements that were discussed at the Trade and Technology Council between the EU and the US that took place in Pittsburgh last 29 September. 

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News
2021-10-01
SME Compatibility Test – A unique tool for SMEs in Standardisation

Small Business Standards (SBS), the association representing European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in standardisation, has developed the first SME Compatibility Test for Standards. The online test, easily accessible from SBS website, can be used by any standard maker who wish to assess the SME-compatibility of a standard.

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Newsletter
2021-10-01
ETUC capacity building activities

The activities aimed at building trade union capacity and at raising awareness about standardization, particularly at national level, are key to the ETUC STANDardisation project. This is a long-term process, which is necessary to increase trade unions mobilisation to act in standardization.

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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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Newsletter
2021-09-28
On The Spot Newsletter Issue 27 • September 2021

 

New issue of the CEN-CENELEC newsletter 'On The Spot' is out now!

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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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