Standardisation

Standards maximize safety and enhance interoperability

Standardisation aims at avoiding technical barriers to trade. The principles of International (ISO, IEC, ITU), European (CEN, CENELEC, ETSI), and national (DIN, DKE) standardisation bodies are involving all interested parties, participating by delegation, and issuing consensus based documents.

Specifications for products, processes etc. are developed by sectoral technical committees.

An international committee of 130 member countries (ISO/CASCO) is dedicated to develop guidelines and requirements for conformity assessment, which are endorsed on the European and national level.

Examples are standards for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories (ISO/IEC 17025), for the operation of inspections bodies (ISO/IEC 17020), and for product certification (ISO/IEC 17065, ISO/IEC 17067).

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22 February 2018

VdTÜV position on the regulation proposal for a European “Cybersecurity Act”

As part of the 2017 cybersecurity strategy, the European Commission (EC) published a regulation proposal for the “EU Cybersecurity Agency” and the “Cybersecurity Act” in September 2017. VdTÜV welcomes the objective the EC is pursuing with this legislative initiative: Strengthening trust in the security of products and ensuring a higher level of cybersecurity through a consistent framework for the certification of IoT products.

14 October 2016

World Standards Day: How standardisation makes our life easier and safer

Standards contribute to global trade development, increase profitability and safety.

22 September 2016

CEOC publishes position paper on Market Surveillance

In its position from 19/09/2016, CEOC International strengthens the importance of regulatory market surveillance and independent third party testing, joining the VdTÜV position from 16/10/2015.

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