The Frankfurt Agreement

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Bring European needs to the world stage

Alberto SIMEONI Strategic Partnerships Department WP.6 UNECE Geneva, 2 December 2016

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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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