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A Standardization System fit for Future: CEN and CENELEC Unveil their Strategy 2030
Our world is changing faster than ever, driven by environmental and geopolitical changes and technological innovation. Such structural trends raise a variety of challenges across different regions and industries, and make for an unpredictable, at times even turbulent, market environment. However, these rapid changes also offer opportunities for growth and innovation. Through the new Strategy, the CEN and CENELEC community aims at “Building a safer, more sustainable and competitive Europe through European and International Standardization”. To achieve this, the organisations state as their mission: “through our stakeholders’ networks, we create consensus-based standards in order to generate trust, fulfil market requirements, enable market access and innovations for a better, safer and more sustainable Europe”.
The Strategy 2030 establishes a series of five goals that will guide CEN and CENELEC’s actions in the next decade:
- EU and EFTA recognize and use the strategic value of the European standardization system
- Our customers and stakeholders benefit from state-of-the-art digital solutions
- Increase the use and awareness of CEN and CENELEC deliverables
- The CEN and CENELEC system to be the preferred choice for standardization in Europe
- Strengthen our leadership and ambition at the international level
As a strategic framework for CEN, CENELEC and their respective members, the Strategy 2030 will provide a frame of reference to ensure complementarity, coherence and consistency across the strategic exercises and long-term objectives of all actors in the CEN and CENELEC community.
