Tag: inclusiveness

• Rebuilding trust, restoring ambition: Expectations for the next INC chair

  In our joint letter to the INC Bureau we emphasise that fulfilling that mandate of the UN Global Plastics Treaty requires leadership that is fair, transparent, and committed to the public interest. The election for a new Chair must help restore trust in the process, ensure transparency and inclusivity, and steer the process towards outcomes grounded in science, human rights, environmental health, and environmental justice

• European standards: Inclusive, fit for purpose, and environmentally ambitious

  In our response to the call for evidence on the revision of the EU's Standardisation Regulation, ECOS provides valuable insight on the main challenges within the European Standardisation System, both directly experienced as a stakeholder and those identified in the EC’s evaluation report. We also propose improvements to address these challenges.

• Greater civil society and SME inclusion in international standardisation – High Level Forum on European Standaridsation

  Mapping, analysis and recommendations for greater civil society inclusion in standardisation at international level

• 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.

• Joint call to CEN and CENELEC – time to give civil society a stronger voice in standardisation

  Environmentalists, consumers, trade unions, and SMEs demand a more prominent role in European standardisation as CEN and CENELEC are expected to review their governance structure and rules.

• Decisive times to get EU standardisation right – ECOS briefing and comments on upcoming revised regulation

  On 2 February, the European Commission adopted the EU Strategy on Standardisation, comprising a number of documents that outline the EU approach to standards within the bloc’s internal market as well as globally. In a briefing, ECOS delineates its views on the positive elements as well as the shortcomings of the strategy.