CANENA CENELEC

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CANENA / CENELEC Global Relevance
Mérida, 5 February 2003
Mr. Pieter Parlevliet Secretary General
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CENELEC
European Committee for Electrotechnical
Standardization Founded in 1973 Aims at creating
standards at European level and to its
implementation Result Identical standards in the
whole CENELEC Area
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European Union Single Market
Process started in 1985 Purpose was to eliminate
trade barriers Single set of standards
(ENs) 1992 Completion of the Single Market
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European Union Single Market

• Criticism from other countries
• CENELECs decision Not to exclude other
  countries by using IEC Standards as far as
  possible
• Lugano Agreement with the IEC in 1990, replaced
  by Dresden Agreement in 1995, both aim at the
  implementation of International Standards within
  the CENELEC area

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CENELEC / IEC CooperationThe Dresden Agreement
Common planning of new work
Parallel Procedures
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Advantages

• Experts from around the world influence ENs
• Resulting ENs are generally global
• Purely European Standards may be adopted by the
  IEC at a global scale

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Results of the cooperation with IEC
1109
332
2828
Total number of Standards 4269
Global figures as of August 31, 2002
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At the same time

• Developments at WTO / TBT level tend to lift
  barriers to trade
• Focus on international standards, ie, ISO and the
  IEC

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Global relevance and IEC
CENELEC supports the thesis that IEC standards
should be global relevant
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Global relevance and IEC
Standards with many essential differences make
IEC standards globally less relevant and will
serve mainly as information material
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Global relevance and IEC
Standards with essential differences based on
infrastructure or climatic conditions will
continue to appear
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Global relevance and IEC
The document on the implementation of essential
differences in IEC Standards seems to be a good
compromise and is being considered by CENELEC
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Other Aspects of Global Relevance

• Use Voluntary application of the standard
• Market need
• Quality of the Standard
• Adoption / Implementation
• The obligation of IEC members to adopt /
  implement a standard

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