Training on standardization

• 09/12/2025 - 10h00 - Hybrid session - CEN-CLC/Guide 17 ‘Guidance for Writing Standards Taking into Account Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) Needs’
• 1/10/2025 - 13h30 - Hybrid session - Seminar on Standards & Legislation for Alarm Centres: T020/EN 50518/EN 50600/NIS2
• 24/09/2025 - 10h - Online session - Smart Standards
• 13/05/2025 - 14h - Hybrid session - Environmental Product Declarations

• 25/03/2025 - 09h30 - Hybrid session - Strategic Approach to Standardization
• 20/03/2025 - 14h30 - Hybrid session - “HAS System” by CEN-CENELEC
• 20/02/2025 - 14h - Hybrid session - “How to become an expert”
• 4/02/2025 - 14h - Hybrid session - “Getting started: The CEB-BEC organization, your gateway to the international world of standards”

Date: 9 December 2025 - Hybrid session (Teams and BEC offices)

Timing: 10h00 - 12h00

Objective: Understanding how to draft standards in alignment with the capacity and competency of SMEs, noting the creation of barriers where standards are too costly to implement and/or too complex to understand.

Audience: Experts

Training:

• Considerations for the development of standards that are best adapted to the needs of SMEs.
• Techniques for identifying and assessing provisions in standards that may especially impact SMEs.
• Ways to reduce the negative impacts on SMEs resulting from some provisions in standards.
• Overview of the guidelines and corresponding checklist for standards developers.

Date: 1 October 2025 - Hybrid session (Teams and Volta offices)

Timing: 13h30 - 16h30

Objective: An in-depth comparative study of key standards and regulations relevant to alarm receiving centres.

Audience: All professionals in the security sector: installers, alarm receiving centres, consultants, designers, inspection bodies, and other stakeholders active in electronic security.

Seminar topic:

• General view of alarm receiving centres in Belgium
• EN 50518 (alarm receiving centres)
• EN 50600 (data centres)
• INCERT Technical Note T020
• Belgian legislation
• NIS2

The list of speakers will be shared shortly in the official agenda. This seminar is organized by INCERT, the Belgian quality label for reliable security systems and services. It promotes clear standards and brings together technical expertise within the sector.

Participation fee (excl. VAT):

• INCERT members: €125 per person
• Non-members: €250 per person

Date: 24 September 2025 - Online session (Zoom)

Timing: 10h00 - 11h30

Trainer: Katharine Fraga (IEC)

Objective: Introduction to IEC Smart solutions, the business model, and a product demo.

Goal: Deep understanding on solution, approach, use case, and ways of working.

Audience: Experts

Training:

• Introductions
• About Smart and its value proposition
• Smart products overview & demo
• NC’s customer challenges and opportunities today
• Testing phase business model framework
• Onboarding Roadmap
• Next steps

Date: 13 May 2025 - Hybrid session (Teams and BEC offices)

Timing: 14h00 - 17h00

Trainer: Serge Noels (BEC) and Anirudh Eswaran (BEC)

Aim: Understanding what Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) are, how they relate to standards and legislation, and their impact on industry.

Audience: Experts

Training:

• Broader context of EPD:

Link with Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs).

Information provision on material efficiency.

In support of circularity goals and quantitative green claims.

• Standardization framework and legal implications:

Standards’ development activities on “Circular Economy” in International and European Technical Committees, with a focus on terms and definitions, business models and management systems, material efficiency calculations and reporting, and standards to promote circular design and end-of-life use.

Overview of current legal framework and foreseen evolutions in the future.

• Examples of industrial applications:

EPD for switchgears and power cables.

Date: 20 March 2025 - Hybrid session (Teams and BEC offices)

Timing: 14h30 - 17h30 (1/2 day)

Trainer: Alberto Simeoni (CEN-CENELEC)

Aim: The harmonization process and its procedures

Audience: Experts

Training:

• Developing standardization requests
• Elaboration of a candidate harmonized standard
• The common CCMC - HAS consultant - EC checklist explained
• The assessment of the HAS consultants
• The citation as harmonized standard

Date: 25 March 2025 - Hybrid session (Teams and BEC offices)

Timing: 09h30 - 12h30 & 13h30 – 16h30 (1 day)

Trainer: Geert Maes (KARABE)

Aim: Understand CENELEC's decision-making process, IEC-CENELEC collaboration, and the Frankfurt Agreement's role in harmonizing standards

Audience: Experts

Training:

• The IEC Standardization Management Board
• The CENELEC Technical Board
• TC decision making
• Governance structures
• Relationship with ISO and CEN
• Cooperation under the Frankfurt Agreement
• Why the Frankfurt Agreement
• Planning of work
• Parallel development
• Harmonized standards
• Maintenance

Date: 4 February, 2025 - Hybrid session (Teams and the BEC offices)

Timing: 14h00 - 17h00

Trainers: Anirudh Eswaran (CEB-BEC)

Aim: Understand the functioning of the BEC

Audience: Experts

Training:

• Structure & committees
• Fact and figures
• Roles of participants
• Internal regulations - functioning of Technical Committees
• Preparation of BE NC position on ongoing work for and decisions taken during international (plenary) meetings

Date: 20 February, 2025 - Hybrid session (Teams and the BEC offices)

Timing: 14h00 - 17h00

Trainers: Anirudh Eswaran (CEB-BEC)

Aim: Understand the job to be done, follow-up of documents & formulate a position and comments

Audience: Basic experts (national expert)

Training:

• IEC & CENELEC Publications (IR2)

International, European and National standards

International Standard (IS), Technical Specification (TS), Technical Report (TR), workshop agreement and their voting rules, weight of a NC voting

Flowchart for development of IEC standard

• The used tools

Collaboration Platform (CP): BEC/CENELEC/IEC - User interface - Consulting and commenting documents posted on the collaboration platform

• Code of conduct / behavior in meetings

Differences between CLC and IEC