New website offers easy access to information on European Standards
Brussels, 18 January 2012 - The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) have joined forces to launch a new website - cencenelec.eu – which goes online for the first time today (18 January).
This new joint website complements the existing websites of CEN and CENELEC by providing easy access to general information about European Standards. It is intended to serve as a starting point for anyone who wants to learn about or participate in the European standardization system.
Elena Santiago Cid, the Director General of CEN and CENELEC, has recorded a special video message for the new CEN CENELEC website. In this message she says:
“We hope that the new CEN CENELEC website will be a useful source of information for everyone who wants to know about standards – what they are, why we need them and how to use them. We also want to make it easier for people to learn about how standards are being developed, and how various stakeholders can contribute to this process.”
“For the first time we are bringing together in one place information about the activities of CEN and CENELEC, which – alongside ETSI* – are the main organisations responsible for developing and defining standards at European level.”
“These European Standards apply to all kinds of products and services across a wide range of sectors such as chemicals, construction, energy, food, health and safety, household appliances, machinery and transport – just to mention a few examples.”
* ETSI is the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (www.etsi.org)
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Ben Carlin
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