Cooperation

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Cooperation Communication
Strategy Overview

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Communication Cooperation Strategy - Overview

• Ensure that
• harmonized standards are unimpeded in their
  adoption in each participating country,
• the initiation and scope of each project has core
  support from industry, SDOs, and other relevant
  national entities,
• CANENAs role is complementary, periodically
  assessed, and clearly communicated.

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Communication Cooperation Strategy - Overview

• Who ?
• What ?
• How ?

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Communication Cooperation Strategy - Overview

• Who?
• National Standardization Bodies
• National Committees to IEC
• Nationally Recognized SDOs
• Nationally Recognized COs
• Electro-industry Trade Associations
• Regional International Standardization
• Bodies
• CANENA Members

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Communication Cooperation Strategy - Overview

• National Standardization Bodies
• CANENA must establish and maintain a
  complementary relationship with those official
  entities that determine national standards
  policies and that provide national representation
  in regional and international standards forums in
  countries with CANENA activities.

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Communication Cooperation Strategy - Overview

• National Committees to IEC
• Where appropriate, CANENA must establish and
  maintain a complementary relationship with each
  IEC National Committee in countries with CANENA
  activities.

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Communication Cooperation Strategy - Overview

• Nationally Recognized SDOs
• CANENAs international identity depends on
  ongoing recognition, coordinated procedures, and
  technical involvement from nationally recognized
  Standards Development Organizations (SDO) in
  countries with CANENA activities.

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Communication Cooperation Strategy - Overview

• Nationally Recognized COs
• CANENA must more fully define its role in
  conformity assessment and foster close
  association between nationally recognized
  conformity assessment laboratories in countries
  with CANENA activities as a means of realizing
  benefits from harmonized standards.

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Communication Cooperation Strategy - Overview

• Electro-industry Trade Associations
• CANENA must maintain a complementary
  relationship with prominent electro-industry
  trade associations in countries with CANENA
  activities, realizing these are the principal
  source of Council membership and it is their
  standardization priorities that are facilitated
  in CANENA.

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Communication Cooperation Strategy - Overview

• Regional International Standardization
• Bodies
• CANENA shall honor its commitments to IEC and
  CENELEC as expressed in the formal cooperation
  agreements.
• CANENA will seek an agreement with COPANT and
  a cooperative relationship with AMN and Mercosur
  countries in order to ensure a complementary role
  in electrotechnical standardization within the
  region.

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Communication Cooperation Strategy - Overview

• CANENA Members
• Members shall be provided with timely and
  accessible communications.

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Communication Cooperation Strategy - Overview

• What?
• CANENA official communications shall be
  purposeful, timely and authorized by the CANENA
  Executive Committee. Unless specifically
  authorized, neither CANENA nor its members shall
  claim to represent another standardization entity
  or its positions through official CANENA
  communications or forums.

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Communication Cooperation Strategy - Overview

• What?
• The criteria for Council recognition of General
  Members and any other class of CANENA membership,
  and the particular nature of each according to
  CANENA bylaws shall be clearly and
  publicly communicated.

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Communication Cooperation Strategy - Overview

• What?
• CANENA shall continually assess and clearly
  communicate to its members and the
  standardization community, its place (role) in
  national, regional and international
  standardization activities.

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Communication Cooperation Strategy - Overview

• What?
• CANENA members in good standing shall be informed
  on the administrative matters of the Council and
  the Executive Committee and conduct of technical
  harmonization work programs in accordance with
  published CANENA Bylaws and harmonization
  procedures.

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Communication Cooperation Strategy - Overview

• The following official communications shall be
  publicly accessible
• -Committee Directory
• -CANENA Bylaws and Procedures
• -CANENA Members in Good Standing
• -Council Meeting Notices and Agendas
• -Summary Council and ExCo Meeting Minutes
• -CANENA Annual Report
• -Official Agreements

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Communication Cooperation Strategy - Overview

• How?
• CANENA shall initiate and ensure open channels
  of communication with each of the identified
  standardization entities.