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- Accreditation
- Procedure by which an authoritive body gives formal recognition that a body or person is competent to carry out specific tasks.
- ANEC
- European association for the coordination of consumer representation in standardisation (an Associate of CEN)
- ANSI
- American National Standards Institute
- AT
- Assistive Technology
- ATP
- Advanced Technology Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology of the US.
- Audit
- The independent examination of records to access their veracity and completeness.
- BT
- Technical Board (of CEN)
- CEN
- European Committee for Standardisation
- CENELEC
- European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation
- Certification
- Procedure by which a third party gives written assurance that a product, process or service conforms to specified requirements.
- Conformity Assessment
- Any activity concerned with determining directly or indirectly that relevant requirements are fulfilled. Typical examples of conformity assessment activities are sampling, testing and inspection; evaluation, verification and assurance of conformity (declaration, certification of the supplier); registration and approval as well as their combinations.
- Consortia and Fora
- Consortia and fora cover non formal SDOs and specification providers. They are used in places were it is not so relevant to distinguish between these two classes.
- eAbilities
- eAbilities aims at developing a framework for current and future actions in research, education, standardisation and technology transfer in the field of ICT accessibility in the home, vehicle and working environments in Europe. With this purpose, eAbilities will enable, organise and promote the share of related knowledge, communication, facilities equipment and personnel resources.
- EC
- European Commission
- EDF
- European Disability Forum
- EFTA
- European Free Trade Association
- EN
- European Norm or European Standard
- ESO
- European Standardisation Organisation
- Essential Requirements
- Requirements that represent the core of EU law around which an effective policy has been developed in matters of safety, health and other measures for those areas covered by the new approach directives.
- ETSI
- European Telecommunications Standards Institute
- EU
- European Union
- European Directive
- A legislative instrument within the European Union (EU) which is binding for Member States with regards to the objective to be achieved but which leaves to the national authorities the choice of form and methods used to attain the objectives which were agreed on at EU level within their domestic legal systems.
- European Standard
- A European Standard or European Norm (EN) is a standard adopted by CEN / CENELEC and carrying with it an obligation of implementation as an identical national standard and withdrawal of conflicting national standards.
- European Standardisation Organisation (ESO)
- The three formally recognised standardisation bodies in Europe are CEN, CENELEC and ETSI.
- European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
- The European Telecommunications Standards Institute working in partnership with CEN and CENELEC to promote voluntary technical harmonisation in Europe.