The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) develops European Standards and other products covering a vast range of subjects.
The various products CEN delivers are listed on the left. Amongst these, the European Standard (EN) is the major deliverable. An EN must be implemented by all CEN National Standardization Bodies, who must also withdraw any conflicting national standards.
Besides ENs, CEN produces other reference documents with a different objective, which can be developed quickly and easily such as a Draft European Standard (prEN), a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) which is often used in fast-evolving technologies and the creation of new markets, a Technical Specification (TS) and a Technical Report (TR).
In these pages you will also find out how to search on CEN Products and where to obtain and/or purchase CEN deliverables.