ECOS | Environmental Coalition on Standards

Tag: EU standards

  • Standards need to work for everyone – here’s how we do it

    The outcome of any negotiation depends on who sits at the table. Environmental stakeholders must be included for standardisation to be effective. Smooth collaboration between companies, workers, consumers, civil society, and environmental groups is the key to delivering standards and EU policies that work for everyone and strengthen the single market. Here’s how.

  • Access granted? Best practices for including NGOs in the work of National Standardisation Bodies

    Our toolkit aims to explore how to best engage civil society in standards-making, gathering best practices from environmental NGOs involved in standardisation at national level, and puts forward a number of recommendations for National Standardisation Bodies (NSBs), national governments and environmental NGOs themselves.

ECOS is co-funded by the European Commission and EFTA Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EISMEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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