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The Central Secretariat handles all the tasks assigned to it by the General Assembly,the Administrative Board and the Technical Board and is responsible for the liaisonand all correspondence with the Services of the European Commission and theEFTA Secretariat.CENELEC's priority areas of standardizationThe priority areas for CENELEC standardization work are those which determinethe safety and the free movement of goods and services and/or that are directlyor indirectly related to EU Directives. These are mainly:The development and implementation in Europe of a portfolio of EuropeanElectrotechnical Standards as far as possible in full conformity with the relevantinternational standards for electrotechnology prepared by the IEC, theInternational Electrotechnical CommissionProposals and drafts introduced by CENELEC’s Cooperating Partners, consumers’associations and social partnersThe scope of all New Approach Directives concerning the electrotechnical fieldSpecific proposals by CENELEC members for the preparation of relevantEuropean Standards. This includes the aim to feed in the resulting drafts intothe international work at IEC levelRequests of the relevant user industry and authorities to start the creationof standards needed for the free movement and/or certification of electroniccomponentsThe latest technological changes as well as the evolution of the energy marketin the European Union have led to two new additional areas of standardizationfor CENELEC:Merging technologies, like the ICT field, lead to obscure borderlines, responsibilitiesand scopes for the standardization organizations. The consequence isconfusion for standardizers and delay of standardization work, while expertscare for timeliness of standards. At the same time, a solid standards contributionfor the European infrastructure in the ICT field is in demandCENELEC observes that the energy market moves from national monopoliesto international ownership in a free market. The new market forces and anincreasing political attention towards energy conservation as well as emergingtechnologies like small-scale cogeneration, or fuel cells will require supportfrom standardization work to achieve optimal results10 CENELEC. <strong>Primer</strong> on Standards
The European Standards Organizations and their counterpartsat world levelCENELEC has two sister organizations at European level: CEN and ETSI. Atinternational level, each of the European Standards Organizations has a counterpart:CENELEC is the IEC’s, that of CEN is ISO, and ETSI’s counterpart is ITU.CENCENELEC's sister organization handles the preparation of European Standards inall domains but electrotechnical and telecommunications. CEN is the biggest ofthe European Standardization bodies and shares with CENELEC the same InternalRegulations. Membership to both CEN and CENELEC is normally granted at thesame time. Its international counterpart is the International Organization forStandards (ISO).ETSIThis other sister European organization is open for membership to all relevantorganizations and industry with an interest in telecommunication standardizationand that belong to a country within the geographical area of the EuropeanConfederation of Posts and Telecommunications Administrations. Its internationalcounterpart is the ITU, International Telecommunications Union.IECThe International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is the oldest of the InternationalStandardization Organizations. It was founded back in 1906 with the support of7 countries.The IEC counts today 48 full members (all nation states with National ElectrotechnicalCommittees) 8 associate members and 6 Pre-Associates. It is globallyrecognized as the provider of standards and related services needed to facilitateinternational trade in the electrotechnical field. But unlike CENELEC’s membership,IEC members are not required to adopt the standards issued by this body atnational level.CENELEC members also represent their countries directly in the IEC. They ensureclose cooperation and parallel adoption procedures between the technical workgoing on in the relevant bodies of CENELEC and IEC. The direct source of ReferenceUncovering the mysteries of standardization in Europe 11
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