ECOS welcomes the European Commission’s adopted Communication for ‘An EU Strategy on Heating and Cooling’, which seeks to decarbonise the sector, reduce energy imports, and cut costs for households. The Heating and Cooling sector has long since remained an untapped source of potential and the Europe Union should move swiftly towards the realisation of carbon […]

With the upcoming vote on the approval of FprEN 16510-1 on “Residential solid fuel burning appliances”, ECOS and INFORSE-Europe recommend standardisers to reject it. The current standard is not appropriate for supporting Regulation (EU) 2015/1185, even in the short-term. The current standard fails to address two of the three proposed methods and modalities for measurements of particulate […]

Earlier this year the European Commission launched a public consultation on streamlining, monitoring, and reporting obligations in environment policy. This consultation is part of a ‘Fitness Check’ which aims at ensuring that environmental monitoring and reporting is fit for purpose: delivering the right information, at the right time, and in an efficient way. The objective of […]

Want to know more about standards or be able to better influence standardisation work? CEN and CENELEC are holding free 30-minutes webinars taking place one a month throughout 2016!  Below, you’ll find the different sessions – The ones in bold are considered to be the most relevant for our representatives/experts however the ECOS Secretariat staff remains […]

Alors qu’une augmentation de la coopération entre les organismes de normalisation au niveau international est à prévoir dans les prochaines années, les acteurs de la société civile s’interrogent sur les impacts d’une telle coopération sur la transparence et l’inclusivité dans le processus de développement des normes. Aujourd’hui près de 80 % des normes européennes dans […]

While cooperation between standardisation organisations is expected to strengthen over the next decade, civil society organisations are concerned about the impacts such cooperation would have on the transparency and inclusiveness of the standards development process. Today, circa 80 % of European standards in the electro-technical sector have been developed within the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), before […]

Led by CEN, and comprised of ECOS and the standards bodies of Austria, Denmark and Spain, the CEN chemical project is working to provide tailored support for standardisers, helping them develop chemical requirements in product standards. The project hopes to properly implement, and possibly go beyond, EU chemical laws and policies. With the finalisation of […]

ECOS has co-authored  a letter with German non-governmental organisations Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH), Koordinierungsbüro Normungsarbeit der Umweltverbände (KNU) and ECOS member Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). The letter calls upon German standardisers and regulators to include the European standard series EN 50625 in key German legislation on waste and air quality. This standard series sets […]

ECOS is looking for experts to provide expertise and represent, on behalf of ECOS, environmental interests in the development of standards related to packaging and plastics. In particular, we are looking for experts to represent ECOS in the following groups: CEN/TC 261 in particular, SC 4 ‘Packaging and environment’ CEN/TC 249 ‘Plastics’ In particular, the tasks of […]