Glossary 

EN 45020:1998, 12.11

A-deviation

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Amendment 

Ratified supplementary document to an EN (and HD for CENELEC) already circulated to CEN/CENELEC national members for national implementation, to be read in conjunction with that EN (and HD for CENELEC) and which alters and/or adds to previously agreed technical provisions in that EN (and HD for CENELEC)

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Appeal Mechanism

Author rights

EN 45020:1998, 5.1
 

Business Plan of Technical Committee

Process - Programming of the work of a Technical Committee
GD - Establishing the Business Plan of a Technical Committee
Template - Business Plan (Word)

Standard developed under mandate and within the context of a New Approach Directive (as referred to in the mandate). 

CEN Consultant

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CEN Enquiry

CEN Management Centre

CEN Workshop

CEN/CENELEC Workshop Agreement

Certification

Conflicting national standard

Conformity assessment

Conformity assessment scheme

Conformity evaluation

Conformity surveillance

Conformity testing

Consensus

General agreement, characterized by the absence of sustained opposition to substantial issues by any important part of the concerned interests and by a process that involves seeking to take into account the views of all parties concerned and to reconcile any conflicting arguments

NOTE: Consensus need not imply unanimity.

Consortium

Contributor

Copyright

Any person or group drafting any type of document automatically owns the text they have written, and their ownership is protected by copyright law. What they own, however, is the particular form of expression, not the ideas they are trying to convey

NOTE: The copyright is part of the generic term 
'Intellectual Property'

Corrigendum

Latest date by which the existence of an EN (and HD for CENELEC), a TS or a CWA has to be announced at national level

Date when the definitive text in the official language versions of an approved CEN/CENELEC publication is distributed by the Central Secretariat

Latest date by which an EN has to be implemented at national level by publication of an identical national standard or by endorsement

Date when the Technical Board notes the approval of an EN (and HD for CENELEC), from which time the standard may be said to be approved

Latest date by which national standards conflicting with an EN (and HD for CENELEC) have to be withdrawn

Text distributed by the Central Secretariat after approval of a CEN/CENELEC publication

Delegation of important responsibilities from a higher level of authority to a lower level of responsibility on the condition that there is full transparency of the decisions through clear communication.

NOTE: Most delegated decisions operate from the CEN Technical Board to Technical Committees.

The intended output from a process, usually used as a generic term for a type of published document, e.g. European Standard, a Technical Specification, a CEN Workshop Agreement, etc.

NOTE: Often used in the context of "new deliverables".

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Requirements that represent the core of European Union law around which an effective policy has been developed in matters of safety, health and other measures for those areas covered by the 'new approach directives'.

A legislative instrument within the European Union (EU) which is binding for Member States with regards to the objective to be achieved but which leaves to the national authorities the choice of form and methods used to attain the objectives which were agreed on at EU level within their domestic legal systems. 

Standard adopted by CEN/CENELEC and carrying with it an obligation of implementation as an identical national standard and withdrawal of conflicting national standards

NOTE The term "harmonized standard" is a term used in the context of the New Approach directives – see clause 4.2 of the "Guide to the implementation of directives based on the New Approach and the Global Approach" edition 2000.

Circulation by the CEN Management Centre of the final text of a prEN (FprEN) in the three language versions to CEN national members for approval through weighted voting.

Contract between European Commission (EC)/European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and CEN, laying down the legal, administrative and financial conditions applicable to all tasks relating to the preparation, application and promotion of European standardization, which EC/EFTA intend to assign to CEN. 

A disapproval submitted on a decision by correspondence which challenges the principle as much as the detail of the proposal and which automatically triggers a debate within the relevant committee.

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Document published by CEN/CENELEC giving orientation, advice or recommendations on standardization principles and policies and guidance to standards writers

NOTE: Guides may also address issues of interest to all users of European documents

System developed internationally of numeric codes for stages of the standards development process to enable unambiguous project data to be interchanged among national, regional and international standards bodies. 

Technical specification adopted by European Standards Organizations, developed under a mandate given by the European Commission and/or European Free Trade Association, in support of essential requirements of a New Approach Directives

NOTE: This concept is different from the concept of 'Harmonized standard' used by ISO/IEC and by the 'Low Voltage Directive'

Evaluation by observation and judgement accompanied as appropriate by measurement, testing or gauging.

Generic concept covering a number of different types of protection for the works generated by the human intellect

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Political request from the European Commission (EC) (and European Free Trade Association (EFTA)), agreed upon by the Member States (generally via a decision of the Standing Committee of the Directive 98/34), addressed to CEN, in support of an action from the EC. This can be in support of legislative work such as a directive (some directives, not all, are 'New Approach' Directives), or in support of an industrial policy action from the EC.

Competent body assigned by the CEN Technical Board responsible for the continuous updating of a European Standard.

Modification of, addition to or deletion from the content of an EN (and HD for CENELEC), made in a national standard within the same scope as the EN (and HD for CENELEC)

NOTE: It does not form part of the EN (and HD for CENELEC).

Committee National mirror structure to the European/International Technical Committees, ensuring e.g. the formulation of coherent national positions as a first round of consensus finding. 

Standards body recognized at national level, that is eligible to be the national member of the corresponding international and regional (European) standards organizations

Directives that have been put into force since May 1985 by the Council of the European Communities which define 'legislative harmonization in those sectors where barriers to trade are created by justified divergent national regulations concerning the health and safety of citizens and consumer and environmental protection, will be confined to laying down the 'essential requirements', conformity with which will entitle a product to free movement within the Community.' 

Document that provides rules, guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results

NOTES:

1.The term "normative document" is a generic term that covers such documents as standards, technical specifications, codes of practice and regulations.

2. A "document" is to be understood as any medium with information recorded on or in it.

3. The terms for different kinds of normative documents are defined considering the document and its content as a single entity.

Normative document to which reference is made in the standard in such a way as to make it indispensable for the application of the standard.

An official publication of the Institutions of the European Union which is published daily. 

Major review of the CEN business processes which aims at improving the market focus, increasing efficiency, shortening the delivery and raising quality throughout the whole standards process.

Contract between CEN and the European Commission (EC)/European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Secretariat for the delivery of some services. These services can be reports, standards, organization of a workshop, a.s.o.

NOTE: Generally, it is accompanied by a financial support from the EC/EFTA Secretariat to the CEN Management Centre and other parties in the CEN System.

Group, as small as possible, of inter-related standards in the scope of one or more CEN Technical Committees, usually developed simultaneously to one another as parts of one standard, or a series of related standards that may or may not be parts of one standard, that are produced in sequence but with a date of withdrawal that is deferred until the last standard in the series is published.

GD - Date of withdrawal

Procedure under the Vienna Agreement for draft standards developed with either CEN- or ISO-lead which permits approval of the draft standards by both organizations within the same time period.

NOTE: Parallel approval is considered to take place at two stages:

Guidelines for the implementation of the Agreement on technical cooperation between ISO and CEN (Vienna Agreement) (PDF)

Abbreviated and generally-used name for the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, Part 3 Rules for the presentation and drafting of European Standards (PNE Rules) (ISO/IEC Directives - Part 3, modified).

NOTE: Literally PNE means "Présentation des Normes Européennes"

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Assumption made failing proof to the contrary, based on known facts, of the fulfillment by a product, process or service of specified requirements. 

Procedure used for entirely new reference document, in order to find out whether enough interest exists in harmonization of the proposed subject, the existing degree of national harmonization with the reference document in question and whether that document would be acceptable as EN or TS.

Principle by which the application of standards is based on the willingness among the concerned parties.

Standard that specifies requirements to be fulfilled by a process, to establish its fitness for purpose.

Standard that specifies requirements to be fulfilled by a product or a group of products, to establish its fitness for purpose.

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1. A product standard may include in addition to the fitness for purpose requirements, directly or by reference, aspects such as terminology, sampling, testing, packaging and labelling and, sometimes processing requirements.

2. A product standard can be either complete or not, according to whether it specifies all or only a part of the necessary requirements. In this respect, one may differentiate between standards such as dimensional, material , and technical delivery standards.

Detailed list of all subjects (work items) to be developed within the scope of a Technical Committee (TC), forming a group of interrelated standards projects which together achieve a common purpose in support of the strategic aims of a TC.

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Specific obligations and various procedures to award contracts for the performance of works and the provision of services and supplies which are concluded by public authorities, public undertakings and undertakings with a private status which enjoy special or exclusive rights

Point at which the CEN Management Centre registers the standard as an adopted standard in the CEN System following a positive vote and the production of the voting report 

Document submitted for enquiry through the questionnaire procedure or for discussion in a technical body for adoption as a CEN/CENELEC publication

Competent body assigned by the CEN Technical Board with the task of implementing the requirements of a European Standard when the said requirements involve the assignment and registration of unique, unambiguous names according to the procedures described in the European Standard.

Document providing binding legislative rules, that is adopted by an authority

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See guidance document on the sector activities within CEN

Standard that specifies requirements to be fulfilled by a service, to establish its fitness for purpose

National characteristic or practice that cannot be changed even over a long period, e.g. climatic conditions, electrical earthing conditions

NOTE: If it affects harmonization, it forms part of the EN (and HD for CENELEC).

CEN/CENELEC system of numeric codes for stages of the standards development process to enable unambiguous project data to be interchanged among national, regional and international standards bodies.

Document, established by consensus and approved by a recognized body, that provides, for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results, aimed at the achievement of the optimum degree of order in a given context

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Committee composed of representatives appointed by the Member States of the European Union (who may call upon the assistance of experts or advisers) and chaired by a representative of the European Commission. It deals with any question regarding the implementation of a directive, and in particular, gives advice prior to the publication of the references of the national standards retained on a transitional basis and in case of appeal procedure provided for by the safeguard clause.

Decision in the form of a resolution taken by an administrative or technical body of CEN, which is currently effective and affects the overall CEN technical work policies. 

Standstill is an obligation accepted by the national members of CEN/CENELEC not to take any action, either during the preparation of an EN (and HD for CENELEC) or after its approval, which could prejudice the harmonization intended and, in particular, not to publish a new or revised national standard which is not completely in line with an existing EN (and HD for CENELEC).

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Information provided by the TC Secretary about the dates by which an essential step will be reached in the delivery, under his/her responsibility, to the CEN System (in practical terms: to the CMC) of a draft CEN publication. These essential steps, as an interface between the TC and CMC, are: stage 32, stage 40 and stage 49.

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Generic term for the Technical Board, or any committee, working group, panel, task force or sometimes, an individual, that has or is assigned responsibilities for technical aspects of standardization within the CEN System. 

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Regulation that provides technical requirements, either directly or by referring to or incorporating the content of a standard, technical specification or code of practice

EN 45020:1998, 3.6.1

GD - Standards and regulations

document adopted by CEN/CENELEC containing informative material not suitable to be published as a European Standard or a Technical Specification

NOTE: A TR may include, for example, data obtained from a survey carried out among the CEN/CENELEC national members, data on work in other organizations, or data on the "state-of-the-art" in relation to national standards on a particular subject.

Document adopted by CEN/CENELEC for which there is the future possibility of agreement on a European Standard, but for which at present 

• the required support for approval as a European Standard cannot be obtained, 
• there is doubt on whether consensus has been achieved, 
• the subject matter is still under technical development, or 
• there is another reason precluding immediate publication as a European Standard.

NOTE: A Technical Specification is not allowed to conflict with an existing European Standard.

Standard that is concerned with terms, usually accompanied by their definitions, and sometimes by explanatory notes, illustrations, examples, etc …

Standard that is concerned with test methods, sometimes supplemented with other provisions related to testing, such as sampling, use of statistical methods, sequence of tests

Person or body that is recognized as being independent of the parties involved, as concerns the issue in question.

NOTE: Parties involved are usually manufacturer or supplier ("first party") and user or purchaser ("second party") interests.

See related guidance document.

A CMC-generated record of details relating to, and circulated with, each individual draft standard whenever it is distributed, for example, for Enquiry and on which other details are completed by TCs when documents are returned to CMC. 

Procedure applied to any type of document, whatever its origin, in order to achieve rapid approval of a European Standard, for which there is an expectation to be acceptable at European level with no, or only minor, change.

Procedure used for a revised reference document, in order to find out whether enough interest exists in harmonization of the proposed subject, the existing degree of national harmonization with the reference document in question and whether that document would be acceptable as EN or TS.

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Agreement on exchange of technical information between the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and CEN approved by the CEN Administrative Board on 27 June 1991 in Vienna.

Voting system applied for the approval of European Standards, which consists in according specific weightings to votes cast by CEN members.

NOTE: For NSBs of EU countries the weighting of votes is the same as stipulated in Article 148 of the Treaty of Rome; for other NSBs the weighting is calculated on the basis of population and Gross Domestic Product.

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Subject with a specific title and scope to be worked out by a Technical Committee within agreed target dates and leading to a CEN publication, or a series of interrelated tasks implemented within the constraints of time, cost and quality for the purposes of achieving a specific measurable objective

GD - Establishing the  programme of work of a new Technical Committee

GD - Adoption of a new work item

Unique key which follows a project through its complete development in the information and monitoring systems.

The number is allocated by the CEN Management Centre (CMC) for each new work item. It is composed of three digits identifying the standardization organization, followed by three digits identifying the working body (or the subsector) (e.g. the number of a Technical Committee (TC)) dealing with the project and the last three digits give the sequential number of the work item within the body.

Note: Cancelled work item numbers are never re-used for other projects.

GD - Adoption of a new work item