CEN and CENELEC

CEN and CENELEC recommends that the EU use existing standards to ensure harmonization and reduce burdens on businesses. Standards can provide a common language and uniform processes that strengthen compliance and reduce fragmentation. In the area of cybersecurity, CEN and CENELEC recommends that reporting requirements be based on existing standards for incident management and information security.

CEN (the European Committee for Standardization) and CENELEC (the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization), as the recognised European Standardisation Organisations (ESOs), welcome the European Commissions initiative for a Circular Economy Act (CEA). Harmonized standards are essential to reach the ambitions of the CEA to build a genuine single market for secondary raw materials and circular products.

CEN and CENELEC believe that standards will play a key role in meeting Europes climate neutrality objectives. To fully realise this potential, CEN and CENELEC asks the European Commission to: Apply standards consistently in future legislation, including through the IDAA, and to fully leverage relevant existing standards that can support the IDAA, including in grid harmonisation, life cycle assessment (LCA)…

CEN and CENELEC develop European Standards setting safety, quality, and performance requirements for medical devices that are put on the European market. A large number of those standards enable manufacturers to make their medical products compliant with the European legislation in the medical sector, for the ultimate benefit of all European citizens.

CEN and CENELEC welcome the European Commissions proposal for the Critical Raw Materials Act, published 16 March 2023 and the aim to reinforce EU monitoring capacities and strengthen both the EU value chain (through the identification of mineral resources and raw materials projects in the EU's strategic interest, with strong environmental protection) and the EU external policies on CRMs.

In January 2025, CEN and CENELEC published their position paper on the future 10th EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP10). On 11 March 2025, the European Parliament adopted its report on the Assessment of the implementation of Horizon Europe (A10-[phone removed], which highlights standardization as a driver of innovation and competitiveness.

CEN and CENELEC welcomes the revision of the Waste Framework Directive (WFD). The extension of the scope of the framework to textiles and food waste is a great step in strengthening the European circular economy. European Standards can play a vital role in providing the technical guidance needed to make the necessary practical changes to implement the ambitions laid out in this proposal.

At its heart, the revision of the Directive 2009/125/EC on Ecodesign requirements for energy-related products to become a Regulation of the Ecodesign on sustainable products (ESPR), entails sustainability requirements as one of the means to achieve the European Green Deal and Circular Economy Action Plan.

CEN and CENELEC welcome the objective of the proposal to achieve a well-functioning single market for construction products, avoid overlap of EU legislation and contribute to the EU objectives of the green and digital transition. A summary of the CEN and CENELEC key messages is presented below.

CEN and CENELEC work across the construction sector, developing harmonized European standards in support of the Construction Products Regulation (Regulation EU 305/2011 - CPR). Harmonized standards provide a common technical language to be used by manufacturers to express the technical performance of their products, by regulators to express their requirements and by designers, contractors and other construction…

CEN and CENELEC, two of the European Standardization Organizations (ESOs), together with our Members the National Standardization Bodies (NSBs) and the National Committees (NCs), welcome the European Commissions Innovation Act and highlight the strategic role of European standardization in turning research into market-ready innovations, strengthening competitiveness, and ensuring Europes technological sovereignty.

CEN Technical Committee 251 Health Informatics is very positive on the initiatives around a European Health Data Space. We see an important role for the standards that CEN/TC 251 produces in the problem area identified in the third bullet of the section “Problems the initiative aims to tackle”, as well as on the “Preliminary Assessment of Expected Impacts”. We have documented our input in attached document.

CEN and CENELEC welcome the proposal aimed at strengthening European Green Industry. Emerging and existing clean technologies form an essential component of the twin transition, to which CEN and CENELEC are dedicated since standards play a key role in this endeavour.

CEN and CENELEC, two of the European Standardization Organizations (ESOs), together with our Members, the National Standardization Bodies (NSBs) and the National Committees (NCs), see the revision of the Regulation 1025/2012 as an opportunity to reinforce the role of the European Standardization System (ESS) and anchor it in an ever-evolving reality.

CEN and CENELEC welcome the European Commissions decision to rationalize reporting requirements on European businesses to alleviate administrative burdens and to reinforce the global competitiveness of European industry. As two of the three European Standardization Organizations, CEN and CENELEC have a long history of developing standards supporting the Single Market and boosting European economic competitiveness.

Introduction Background information On 21 April 2021, the European Commission (EC) adopted its proposal for the Machinery Regulation which will replace the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC. At the same time, the EC launched a public consultation for feedback on the draft Machinery Regulation. With this document, CEN and CENELEC provide its position on this proposal.

CEN-CENELEC feedback to the EC Inception Impact Assessment 'Machinery Directive – revision' First, as a matter of course, any change of the essential health and safety requirements of the Machinery Directive would have a significant impact on both the published standards (currently 900) as well as on the standards under development (currently 300).

CEN and CENELEC support the European Commission's efforts to harmonize criteria for issuing common specifications. This is in principle positive, but it is crucial that the process is done in a way that ensures the involvement of a broad range of stakeholders, from societal stakeholders to Member States and industry (the actors who will later enforce and follow the specifications to gain access to the internal…

Add in Annex V: Electrical energy meters, including railway meters, for both active and reactive energy measurements. CENELEC has published a standard on this subject, which is called: EN50463: 2017 consisting of 5 parts. I have this comment as the Convenor of the CLC TC9X WG11 working group that has produced this standard and is also transferring it to IEC

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CEN and CENELEC support the European Commission's efforts to harmonize criteria for issuing common specifications. This is in principle positive, but it is crucial that the process is done in a way that ensures the involvement of a broad range of stakeholders, from societal stakeholders to Member States and industry (the actors who will later enforce and follow the specifications to gain access to the internal…

CEN and CENELEC have prepared a response to the European Commission proposal for a Regulation on Standard Essential Patents outlining their opinion on the proposed regulation, raising important issues concerning the role of European Standardization Organizations in the area of Standard Essential Patents, and proposing changes to the proposed regulation to better reflect the nature of ESOs involvement in this area.

CEN and CENELEC, two of the three European Standardization Organizations designated in Annex I of EU Regulation 1025/2012, would like to contribute the following clarifications relating to statements found in the European Commission’s introductory document (Ref. Ares(2022)1076263 - 14/02/2022) - please see uploaded document

CEN and CENELEC welcome the proposed Framework on Financial Data Access (FIDA) as a great step in promoting data driven finance. CEN and CENELEC are already playing a role in developing standards that will facilitate the ability of European industry to conform with recent EU initiatives in data sharing, such as the Data Governance Act and the Data Act.

CEN and CENELEC welcome the proposed amendment of Regulation 1025/2012 which emphasizes the national delegation principle. For 60 years, CEN and CENELEC have proven to be consistent, market-driven and inclusive.

Europe faces growing geopolitical pressures and a rapidly evolving defence landscape. To build a resilient and competitive European defence sector, standardization must be integrated early and systematically into defence policy, planning, procurement, and capability development.

In a rapidly growing world, there is a continuing increase in requirements for improved measurements, metrology standards, for new or updated standards and for the adoption of metrological concepts in new areas such as biosciences, medicine, space, food, environment, energy, digitalization … Following a successful collaboration with EURAMET which started in the context of the EMRP programme, and which was…