The Frankfurt Agreement
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Bring European needs to the world stage
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ABOUT US
42 National members
(33 countries)
>260 European industry and society Partners
100.000 Esperts
~500 Technical
Commissions
~2.000 WGs
~1.600 Standards/
year
>23.000 catalogue
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UNIQUE SYSTEM
European Standardization 33 identical national standards
All conflicting standards
removed !!
Access to a market of 500 million people
Successful partnership with European legislator
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AGREEMENTS WITH IEC AND ISO: PRIMACY OF INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
What? When?
Why?
Formal agreement on
technical cooperation
between ISO and CEN
• 1991 - Published
• 2001 - Revision
• 2016 ‘Guidelines on
implementation‘
• Support an increasingly
globalized economy
• Avoid duplication of
work at International
& European levels
• Ensure rational use of
back office resources
What? When?
Agreement on common
planning of new work and
parallel voting between
IEC and CENELEC
• 1991 – Lugano A.
• 1996 – Amended DA
• 2016 – Revision FA
Vienna Agreement
Dresden/Frankfurt Agreement
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CENELEC AND IEC: FROM DRESDEN TO FRANKFURT AGREEMENT
• Modernization of agreement
through alignment to real
world practice (e.g. ISO/IEC
Guide 21)
• ‘EN IEC 6xxxx’ numbering
for identical adoption; to be
appled as of 2018-01-01,
without retroactive action
Approved agreement signed
by CENELEC and IEC
Presidents at
IEC General Meeting
14 October 2016
Maurice Buckley Vice-President Technical © CENELEC 2016 slide 5
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DRESDEN AGREEMENT: THE RESULTS
Source: CEN-CENELEC Statistics at end Q2 2016
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FRANKFURT AGREEMENT
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IEC
CENELEC (CLC)
Common
planning of
new work
Preference
for
international
work
Use
European
work
CLC NWI
offering
Parallel vote on CDV and
FDIS
Offering of CLC home-grown
standards
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