BEC takes the lead: Belgian experts acting as secretaries on the international standardization scene.
The main standardization activities happen through international organizations: On one hand the “International Electrotechnical Committee”, IEC, on the other hand the “European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization”, CENELEC (or even shorter: CLC).
For both organizations, BEC is the one and only member for Belgium.
One of the longest-standing experts in BEC is Professor Peter Van den Bossche from the VUB (Free University of Brussels), who is in charge of the secretariat of both IEC 69 and CENELEC 69X, dealing with standardization in the field of “Electrical power/energy transfer systems for electrically propelled road vehicles and industrial trucks”.
In the case of IEC 69, Professor Maitane Berecibar, also from the VUB, is acting as the assistant secretary.
Another group dealing with electrical vehicles is the IEC 125 on e-Transporters. Bram Rotthier, technical director at LEVA-EU (one of the European Federations representing small electric vehicles) assumes the secretariat of IEC 125 on behalf of BEC. François Rummens, technical officer at BEC, is the assistant secretary. For the corresponding group at CENELEC, SR 125, François is also the secretary.
The secretariat of CENELEC 36A on “Insulated bushings” is done on behalf of BEC by Rob Cardigan from Sicame.
In the field of “audio, video and multimedia systems and equipment and related sub-systems”, the CENELEC TC 100X is supported by BEC with Jean-Luc Detrez (Decalogics) as the secretary.
In the IEC, TC 23 on “electrical accessories”, two long-standing BEC experts are assuming the secretariat: Wim de Kesel (Legrand) as the secretary and Rony Haentjens (Niko) as the assistant secretary. Wim de Kesel is also assuming the secretariat of the corresponding CENELEC SR 23 on behalf of BEC.