Organization of electrotechnical standardization in France

This chapter describes the most significant changes in standardization over the last two decades.

From its creation in 1907 until 2013, the stakeholders who made up the French Electrotechnical Committee entrusted UTE, a founding member of the international non-governmental standards organizations – the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) – with the mission of being the French Member of these organizations.

From 2014, in application of the decision of the General Meeting of December 14, 2013, which followed the mediation agreements of December 4, 2012 signed between UTE, the French Standards Association (AFNOR) and the Public Authorities to implement Decree no. 2009-697, the French Standards Association becomes the French Member of IEC and CENELEC, hosting...