Mission

It is the mission of the BEC

• to inform Belgian electrotechnical companies, government bodies and citizens about standards and standardisation practice in the relevant domains (centre of expertise)

• to create awareness among companies about how influencing and applying standardisation can be a powerful tool to realise technical and financial corporate objectives

• to facilitate companies' participation in the standardisation process through technical committees

• to advise and support standards users in their application of published standards

• to provide efficient and paid access to standards and standard related documents

• to ensure mutual communication between Belgian, European and global standardisation activities
  

Regarding this last aspect, the BEC is

• member of and internationally recognised by IEC;
• member of and recognised in Europe by CENELEC;
• recognised nationally by NBN as sectoral standardisation operator for electrotechnics and electronics.

IEC: International Electrotechnical Committee (global)
CENELEC: European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (Europe)
NBN: Bureau voor Normalisatie (bureau for standardisation, Belgium)