Training on standardization

• 31/01/2024 - 16h - BEC offices “Getting started: The CEB-BEC organization, your gateway to the international world of standards”
• 21/02/2024 - 13h30 - BEC offices IEC, SGS Belgium & Laboratoria De Nayer “IEC Conformity Assessment seminar”
• 6/03/2024 - 9h - BEC offices IEC & CENELEC: “How to become an expert”
• 7/03/2024 - 9h - BEC offices IEC & CENELEC: “How to become an international expert”
• 17/04/2024 - 10h - BluePoint Antwerp “IEC Bootcamp”

• 23/04/2024 - 14h - BEC offices “Harmonized standards & the role of HAS consultants”
• 14/05/2024 - 15h - BEC offices & Hybrid KARABE “A strategic approach to standardization
• 04/06/2024 - 13h30 - BEC offices University of Tilburg “Standards and legislation”
• 11/06/2024 - 13h30 - BEC offices University of Tilburg “The importance of standards in the procurement process including legal aspects”
• 18/06/2024 - 13h30 - BEC offices University of Tilburg “Liability of standards”

Date: 31 January, 2024 - life session in the BEC offices

Timing : 16h00 - 19h00

Trainers: Marc Cumps & 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: 21 February, 2024 - life session in the BEC offices

Timing: 13h30 - 17h00

Trainers: IEC, SGS Belgium & Laboratoria De Nayer

Aim: Understand the added value of the IEC conformity assessment

Training:

• Explanation of the IEC Conformity Assessment systems : IECEE, IECRE, IECEx, IECQX www.iec.ch/conformity-assessment

• Practical experience with the CA schemes

Date: 06 March, 2024 - life session in the BEC offices

Timing: 09h00-18h00

Trainers: IEC & CENELEC

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

Date: 07 March, 2024 - life session in the BEC offices

Timing: 09h00-18h00

Trainers: IEC & CENELEC

Aim: Understand the job to be done, take leadership on European or international level

Audience: Advanced expert (European or international level)

Training: Basic experts +

• Organizational structure and responsibilities for standardization work (IR2)

Technical Board (TB), Technical Committee (TC), Subcommittee (SC), Working Group (WG), Joint Working Group (JWG), Adhoc Working Group (aHGW), Maintenance Team (MT)

• Principles and rules for the structure and drafting of IEC & CENELEC documents (IR3)

How to draft and maintain a standard

Structure & key elements of a standard

Applicable templates

• The used tools

Meeting registration system: how to register for participating in a meeting

Date: 17 April, 2024 - life session BluePoint Antwerpen, Filip Williotstraat 9, 2600 Antwerpen

Timing: 10h00 - 18h00

Trainers: IEC together with NEN

Aim: Get practical experience of a standardization meeting and standardization work

Audience: Experts

Training:

• Simulation of standardization meeting

Date: 23 April, 2024 - life session in the BEC offices

Timing: 14h00-16h00

Trainer: Frédéric Mlanao (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: 14 May, 2024 - Hybrid session (Teams and in the BEC offices)

Timing: 15h00-19h00

Trainer: Geert Maes (Karabe)

Audience: Experts

Training:

• Part 1: Technical Decision Making

Aim: Understand the CENELEC Technical Decision Making

Training: The IEC Standards Management Board / The CENELEC Technical Board / TC Decision making

• Part 2: CENELEC process

Aim: Understand the relation between IEC and CENELEC

Training: Governance structures / Relationship with ISO and CEN / Cooperation under the Frankfurt Agreement

• Part 3: Deep dive in the Frankfurt Agreement

Aim: Understand the Frankfurt Agreement

Training: Why the Frankfurt Agreement / Planning of work / Parallel development / Harmonized standards / Maintenance

Date: 04 June, 2024 - life session in the BEC offices

Timing: 13h30 - 17h30

Trainer: Panos Delimatsis (University of Tilburg)

Aim: fully understand the legal framework

Audience:

Users of standards. Do we have to follow this standard? What is the legal value of this standard?

Designers and influencers of the standardisation system (NBN, BEC, CEN, CLC, ISO, IEC, …)

Legislators: how to refer to standards in legislation (not to be covered so far)

Training:

• Legal framework of the standards development: WTO rules, European Union, Regulation 1025/2012, Belgian law 2004
• Old approach / New legislative framework & new approach
• Legal value of a standard versus legislation
• Legal difference between an IEC and an NBN IEC (national adoptions)
• How are standards considered in court
• How to refer to standards in legislation
• Safety and environmental issues
• Intellectual property right (copyright, patents)
• Competition law (guide how to behave in standardisation meetings)
• GDPR (for sharing personal data within the standardisation community, not standards to support GDPR)

Date: 11 June, 2024 - life session in the BEC offices

Timing: 13h30 - 17h30

Trainer: Panos Delimatsis (University of Tilburg)

Aim: understand the legal value and use of standards in procurement processes

Audience: purchaser / legal

Training:

• The role of standards in State trading
• The differences between referenced/harmonized and non-referenced standards and the repercussions of this distinction
• An overview of how standards are referenced in the procurement process (both pre-award and post-award)
• The role of standards in the current EU procurement framework (Dirs 2014/24 and 2014/25)
• How contracting authorities reference standards
• Technical specifications
• The case of construction (European Technical Assessments and the Construction Products Regulation)
• The case of ICT technical specifications in ICT procurement and elsewhere
• Distinction with other technical reference systems
• The role of conformity assessment bodies
• Use of labels referencing standards - a discussion of voluntary sustainability standards
• EU case-law relating to standards used in procurement

Date: 18 June, 2024 - life session in the BEC offices

Timing: 13h30 - 17h30

Trainer: Paul Verbruggen (University of Tilburg)

Aim: understand the legal value of standards & the process to make standards

Audience: sales / legal

Training:

• Practices in sales contracts around standards (both commercial and consumer sales contracts)
• Benefits and risks in using the standard from a marketing/sales/liability perspective? Is liability of the manufacturer or seller excluded by showing compliance with the standard?
• Contractual liability of standards users (manufacturers, sellers, service providers) for non-compliance with standards (incl. case law such as CJEU Case C-613/14 (James Elliott))
• Liability risks and management for standards development organizations: when involved in standards development
• Extra-contractual liability of standards developing organizations
• Liability risks and management for auditors, certifiers and conformity assessment bodies
• Extra-contractual liability of auditors, certifiers and conformity assessment bodies (incl. case law such as CJEU Cases 171/11 (Fra.bo) and 219/15 (Schmitt))
• Liability for misleading advertising and unfair commercial practices, including greenwashing and other misuses of certification, labelling, etc.
• How is non-compliance sanctioned in the laws of (consumer) sales / tort / unfair commercial practices?