Registration Authority for ISO/IEC 8802 – Approval to charge fees
The ISO Council has adopted a resolution by correspondence approving, on the part of ISO, that the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) will charge fees on a cost-recovery basis in the operation of the Registration Authority for the ISO/IEC 8802 series of standards. Please note that approval to charge fees on a cost-recovery basis has also been approved by IEC.
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The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) have joined forces to launch a new website – cencenelec.eu.
The 7th Annual Meeting of CEN-CENELEC was held in Krakow on 7 and 8th June 2011. This prestigious event brought together the prominent representatives of National Standard Bodies of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and

CENELEC and the USB Implementers Forum reach agreement on memorandum of understanding
Brussels (1 March 2011) – A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed today between the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) and CENELEC, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization.
IEC significantly shortens voting time to speed up standards delivery
Geneva, Switzerland, 2011-03-18– The IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) announced today the decision to try cutting down the voting time for the enquiry stage of a standard, the CDV (Committee Draft for Vote), by nearly half, so as to accelerate the delivery of the final standard.
The European Commission published earlier this week its Communication: ‘Review of the Small Business Act for Europe’. To strengthen SMEs’ competitiveness the Small Business Act for Europe (SBA) provides a comprehensive SME policy framework, promotes entrepreneurship and anchors the ‘Think Small First’ principle in law and policy making.
A new European Commission (EC) Decision came into effect on 1 December 2010 which is intended to help the European Member States meet their obligations for ensuring secure electronic signatures in accordance with the EC Directive 1999/93/EC, the Community framework for electronic signatures.
ISO has just published a new standard in order to help organizations - and, in particular, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) - use a phased approach to implement an environmental management system (EMS).
Today, organizations increasingly take into account environmental management requirements in their activities. However, even if they clearly see the benefits they can derive, implementing an EMS is not always an easy task, especially for SMEs.