Hi Group,
You may download "primer on Standards" in pdf format free from:
http://www.cenelec.org/Cenelec/CENELEC+in+action/News+Centre/Primer+on+stand
ards/Default.htm
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Helge Knudsen
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Fra: John Woodgate [mailto:j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk]
Sendt: 18. november 2003 21:25
Til: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Emne: Re: Standards process
I read in !emc-pstc that Ablewisp - Compliance Engineers
wrote (in ) about 'Standards process' on Tue, 18 Nov 2003:
>Can anyone
>recommend a link or reference where I can learn more about the process
>of producing IEC and EN standards?
CENELEC has produced a CD, 'Primer on Standards', which will probably
tell you more than you ever needed to know. Go to
http://www.cenelec.org
take a large patience pill and search for the CD title. You MAY be able
to buy it on line.
Briefly, much of the work is updating existing standards, but a new
proposal for a standard has to be approved by the national (standards)
committees of enough countries. They, and others, then send 'experts'
>from industry (mostly), academia, test houses and sometimes regulatory
organizations, to Working Groups (some have different titles). These
groups prepare a draft of the new standard, which is sent to the
national committees for comment. The comments are them considered and
compromises, corrections and negotiations take place. This process may
be repeated. Then, a final draft is circulated to the national
committees for voting. If it passes, it is subject to a second voting
process, and if that is passed, it is published.
After a time period (3 to 12 years) specified when the standard is
published, it may be withdrawn, amended or fully revised.
Note that 'Brussels', the European Commission, 'Geneva' and IEC staff
don't figure directly in the above processes. Most of the work is done
by experts from industry, who do generally know what they are talking
about, but often can't write it clearly enough, being engineers and not
literary scholars.
--
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