New CEN standard: EN 13611: 2019 on general requirements for safety and control devices for burners and appliances burning gaseous and/or liquid fuels In the spotlight - 2019-05-15 As the new Gas Appliances Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/426) has become effective since April 2018, all standards for the gas control industry have to be revised and aligned to correspond with the Regulation’s new requirements.
New CEN standard: EN 16798-1:2019 on how to assess the energy performance of buildings In the spotlight - 2019-05-09 Energy efficiency in buildings is one of the most relevant ways to foster energy saving and make our daily life more sustainable
New CEN standard - European standards for toy safety: CEN published new EN 71-3 on migration of certain elements In the spotlight - 2019-04-30 Toy safety is an area in which CEN and CENELEC have traditionally been very active.
New CEN standard - EN 16860:2019 makes rail freight transport safer In the spotlight - 2019-04-24 Rail offers many advantages for the transportation of goods, such as reliability, speed and cost-effectiveness.
e-Invoicing is a reality, thanks to European Standards! ICT - 2019-04-17 Today, Wednesday 17 April, is a big e-day: e-Invoicing has officially entered into force, as foreseen by Directive 2014/55/EU on ‘Electronic Invoicing in public procurement’.
CEN Workshop on Nanoindentation Test Data - NATEDA Draft CWA for comments - 2019-04-23 From materials supply to the design and manufacture of advanced products, the engineering materials supply chain has become reliant on electronic systems.
CEN-CENELEC Workshop "Monsoon - Predictive management of data intensive industrial processes" WS Kick-off meeting - 2019-04-04 The Workshop will be created under the Task 8.3 – “Standardization” of the MONSOON (MOdel based coNtrol framework for Site-wide OptmizatiON of data-intensive processes) project
CWA "Articulated industrial robots – elastostatic compliance calibration" Draft CWA for comments - 2019-04-03
CEN Workshop on the semantic and syntactical interoperability for crisis and disaster management WS Kick-off meeting - 2019-03-29 This Workshop will develop a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA), which defines requirements to achieve interoperability on syntactical and semantic level in border crossing crisis and disaster management.
CEN Workshop on the Trial Guidance Methodology (TGM) WS Kick-off meeting - 2019-03-29 Current and future challenges due to increasingly severe consequences of natural disasters and terrorist threats require the development and uptake of innovative solutions.
Call for tender - Navigation and Positioning (NP) Receivers for Road Applications - DEADLINE: 2019-06-16 Published on 2019-04-15 A European call for tenders is launched to deliver 7 technical reports and 4 technical specification Use of GNSS-based positioning for road Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). A preliminary work necessary for the drafting of future European standards.
Call for tender - Call for tender – ICT skills – e-Competence Performance Indicators and Common Metrics - DEADLINE: 2019-06-19 Published on 2019-05-07 A European call for tender is launched to develop a Technical Report on e-Competence performance indicators and common metrics, for the execution of the work called for in the Specific Agreement CEN/2018-14.
Call for experts - Call for tender – ICT skills – European Foundational Body of Knowledge for the ICT profession - DEADLINE: 2019-06-19 Published on 2019-05-07 A European call for tender is launched to develop an European Standard and a Technical Report on European Foundational Body of Knowledge for the ICT profession, for the execution of the work called for in the Specific Agreement CEN/2018-15
Call for tender - WG 6: Interlaboratory trial & round robin test - - DEADLINE: 2019-06-19 Published on 2019-05-13 The work will be executed with one main contractor on behalf of NEN/547 which is to be organized in two phases, phase one and phase two. Specific agreement: SA/CEN/2016-04/ENER/C2/498-2016/SI2.735225.
May 23 Training: Development of harmonised standards under the Machinery Directive Training @ () This training will let standard makers exchange and train on the development of harmonised standards under Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC.
Jun 11 10-10 webinar: Public access to documents and communications exchanged with the EU institutions Webinar @ () This webinar will explain what to do when giving public access to documents & communications.
Jul 10 10-10 webinar: CEN-CENELEC Innovation Plan Webinar @ () The webinar will detail the CEN-CENELEC Innovation Plan actions and inform on the state-of-play for each of them.
Sep 10 10-10 webinar: Frankfurt Agreement (FA) Webinar @ () This webinar will be organised in cooperation with IEC. It aims at highlighting novelties and implications from the implementation of the day-to-day management of the Frankfurt Agreement
Oct 10 10-10 webinar: EU elections - the impact for CEN & CENELEC Webinar @ () This webinar will give an overview on 'who is who' and highlight who CEN & CENELEC need to engage with and what to focus on 2020 onwards.