2. European standardization

2.1 General

• At European level, standardization is mainly organized within the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).

  At present, the 18 standards bodies belonging to the European Union (EU) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), members of CEN, whose central secretariat is based in Brussels, are faced with a considerable demand for standards.

  Created in 1962, CEN received a new impetus towards the end of the 1980s. While Article 100A of the Treaty of Rome of March 25, 1957 stipulated that technical harmonization was to be achieved by means of directives transposed...