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APPROVING YOUR DRAFT
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The ETSI standards process
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Work Item
introduced
Approval of draft by technical
committee
PublicationIMMEDIATE
If Technical Specification or Technical
Report
Drafting Approval
6 – 12 MONTHS
If European Standard
NSO Enquiry
and Vote
90 DAYS
If ETSI Standard or ETSI Guide
ETSI Member
vote
Drafting in technical committee, working
group
or Specialist Task Force
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Who approves what?
Technical Body• ETSI Technical Reports (TR)• ETSI Technical Specifications (TS)
Members (60 day voting period)• ETSI Guides (EG)• ETSI Standards (ES)
Public (National Standards Organizations)• EN (telecommunications series)
• including Harmonized Standards and Community Specifications
Industry Specification Group• ETSI Group Specifications (GS)
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Public Approval
EN (telecommunications series)• involves National Standards Organizations• involves “Public Enquiry” and “public” Vote
• weighted national voting
Two-step procedure (TAP)• 11,5 months
One-step procedure (OAP)• 6 months• draft must be non-contentious
• suits conversion from ES to EN• or the deliverable has a high degree of maturity
New approval procedure combining them
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The Two-step approval procedure - for ENs
Drafting byTechnical
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The One-step approval procedure - for ENs
Drafting byTechnical
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ETSIevaluation
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CombinedPublic Enquiry
and Vote
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Why the EN approval procedure?
ETSI is acting on the proposal from ETSI NSOs to improve the EN approval procedure on the basis of the following statement and arguments:
ETSI supports the reform of the EU standardization system undertaken by the European Commission to make the standard making process more responsive.
•To ensure that technical comments from NSOs will be considered by the ETSI TB (not only in the case of a negative vote as is the case with the current OAP).
•To automatically select the shorter procedure if there are no technical comments. The TB is no longer required to predict if NSOs will comment.
•To improve the quality of deliverables and speed up the production of non-critical documents.
•To reduce the number of editions of ENs and of the associated procedures, which is particularly important in the case of Harmonized Standards needing to be published in the OJEU.
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ENAP procedure
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TB approval Editing30 days
120 daysEN approvalprocedure
EN approval procedure
The NSOs shall perform thePublic Enquiry in parallel with the National Voting (see Article 13.5)in a combined EN approval procedureover a period of 120 days andsubmit the resulting national commentsto the ETSI Secretariat
Extension of EN AP
The ETSI Secretariat may extendthe EN approval procedure period on receipt of a justified request from an NSO.
Preparation15 days
The ETSI Secretariat shall, within 15 days,prepare a compilation of the Public Enquirycomments received from NSOs and makethem available to the TB, the NSOs, the ETSI members, and the ETSI Counsellors
Editing30 days
60 days
VotePublication
15 days
The deliverable is sent for approvaland NSOs are requested to providecomments (general, technical oreditorial).A deliverable is approved whenthe percentage of positive votes isat least 71 % of the votes cast.
The quorum required for voting shall consist of atleast 50 % of the total number of weighted votes
TB resolution meeting60 days
Editing30 days
Publication15 days
60 days
Vote
Extension of vote
The ETSI Secretariat may extendthe voting period on receipt ofa justified request from an NSO.
Vote unsuccessful
The EN will not be published.The TB Chairman shall decideon how to proceed with the ETSI WI. The comments accompanying "no"votes shall be passed to the TB Chairmanfor eventual consideration
The deliverable is sent for approvaland NSOs are requested to providecomments (general, technical oreditorial).A deliverable is approved whenthe percentage of positive votes isat least 71 % of the votes cast.
The quorum required for voting shall consist of atleast 50 % of the total number of weighted votes
Vote successful!
The EN is published.
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Maintenance & withdrawal of documents
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Standards are maintained typically:
in response to comments received with a formal vote, or
comments from a Technical Body,
comments received by the ETSI Secretariat
Maintenance
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GSM or 3GPP Technical Specification (TS) or Technical Report (TR)
Maintenance is based on a system of formal Change Requests
the formal approval of a Change Request rests with the relevant Technical Specification Group (TSG)
the Support Team then produces a new version of the specification/report
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A major event, not to be undertaken lightly
Standards are withdrawn typically: if their contents have been subsumed into a new standard, or where irreconcilable errors have been found
Withdrawal of standards which have been transposed into national standards may leave a vacuum...
Standards not maintained or used should not be withdrawn because of this
Grant them historical status
Withdrawal
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EN (including Harmonized Standards)
is the EN referenced in any regulatory text?is the EN normatively referenced in any ETSI deliverable? • if yes to either, all references must be revised first
Technical Body submits proposal to SecretariatSecretariat sends withdrawal proposal to NSOsNSOs conduct national consultations (2 months) and weighted national vote• vote may be taken at GA
if vote is successful, EN is withdrawn from public availability within 2 weeks
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