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European Standards must be transposed into a national standard in all EU member states. This guarantees that a manufacturer has easier access to the market of all these European countries when applying European Standards. Member countries must also withdraw any conflicting national standard: the EN supersedes any national standard.
The logo of the European Committee for Standardization for aluminium recycling. The European Committee for Standardization (CEN, French: Comité Européen de Normalisation) is a public standards organization whose mission is to foster the economy of the European Single Market and the wider European continent in global trading, the welfare of European citizens and the environment by providing ...
A standards organization, standards body, standards developing organization (SDO), or standards setting organization (SSO) is an organization whose primary function is developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise contributing to the usefulness of technical standards [1] to those who employ them.
CEN – European Committee for Standardization; CENELEC – European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization; ECSS – European Cooperation for Space Standardization; EIGA – European Industrial Gases Association; ETSI – European Telecommunications Standards Institute; EURAMET – European Association of National Metrology Institutes
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is an independent, not-for-profit, standardization organization operating in the field of information and communications. [1] ETSI supports the development and testing of global technical standards for ICT-enabled systems, applications and services. [2]
After the Dresden Agreement (1996), CENELEC coordinates standard development activities with IEC.Older IEC standards were converted in 1997 by adding 60000, for example IEC 27 became IEC 60027 and the same standards are also published in the EN 60000 series to indicate adoption by CENELEC as a European standard; for example IEC 60034 is also available as EN 60034.
European Standards (abbreviated EN, from the German name Europäische Norm ("European Norm")) [1] [2] are technical standards drafted and maintained by CEN (European Committee for Standardization), CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization) and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute).
The Eurocodes are the ten European standards (EN; harmonised technical rules) specifying how structural design should be conducted within the European Union (EU). These were developed by the European Committee for Standardization upon the request of the European Commission. [1] The purpose of the Eurocodes is to provide: [1]