QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER AVAILABLE
Connect is the new joint CEN-CENELEC newsletter, which will bring you highlights of European standardization. It will appear four times a year and exists in electronic format only. You can subscribe, using the link below:
http://www.cen.eu/cen/News/Newsletter/Pages/default.aspx
MANDATES AND DIRECTIVES INFORMATION ON ECOMMITTEES
From July we will providing some information on Mandates and Directives via the committees site. We receive updates on Mandates and Directives from CEN and CENELEC and we are collating these into one document and will post it the useful documents area every few months.
CEN-CENELEC Guide for standards writers taking SME needs into account
A new CEN-CENELEC Guide is available which provides guidance to standards writers on how to take into consideration the needs of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) when writing standards. Providing advice and a useful checklist, the Guide addresses the issues to be considered during the development process of preparing European Standards relevant to SMEs.
A copy of this guide, which is numbered as 17, can be found at:
https://www.cen.eu/boss/supporting/Reference%20documents/guides/Pages/default.aspx
CEN-CENELEC Cooperation Agreement with Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC)
Enhancing the scientific and technical contribution in the drafting or updating of a standard is an item that is high on the agenda of CEN (the European Committee for Standardization) and CENELEC (the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization). A cooperation agreement that CEN and CENELEC recently signed with JRC (the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission) formalizes this commitment.
Access to detailed information on the CEN Work Programme (CEN PROJEX-ONLINE) and CENELEC Work Programme
The CEN and CENELEC Administrative Boards have taken a series of decisions, which include the mutual opening of the access via the web to both CEN PROJEX-ONLINE and CENELEC Work programme to all CEN and CENELEC TC Secretaries and, on request, to NSB/NC staff, this year.
The CENELEC Work Programme is accessible (without password) at the following address:
www.cenelec.eu > Search > Published/in progress
CEN PROJEX-ONLINE is accessible at the following address:
https://projex.cen.eu/. Access is password protected.
The CENELEC/TC Secretaries and CENELEC Permanent Delegates will receive their password on 1 June 2010 from the CCMC Electronic Data Processing (EDP) department.
Navigation in CEN PROJEX-ONLINE and CENELEC Work Programme is relatively straightforward. Questions can, however, be addressed to projex@cencenelec.eu. Moreover, information sessions will be organized in the form of web-conferences, starting with two sessions in June, the details of which you will receive in due time. With regard to CEN, there is in most of the cases a coordinator at NSB level who monitors the requests for access and takes care of training, support and distribution of documentation.
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