2.5 – Standard setting

Pillar 2: Innovative industry for citizens

Session 2.5 – Standard setting

31 October 2018, 11:00-12:00, room STRAUSS 2

For many years, the EU internal market system and the position of the EU international market environment have supported industrial development. However, the uptake of enabling technologies for various applications in different sectors raises complex issues. The session will look at current challenges, such as the slowness of nanotechnology testing methodologies that lead to delays in accessing European markets for some products, standards to facilitate interoperability for products having various applications, efficiency on Europe’s factory floors.

Please find below the speakers, who will contribute to this session (The speakers’ order might not correspond to the order within the sessions!):

• Why standards? Is there a role for EU standards?
  Luc van den Berghe, CEN-CENELEC
• Identify, analyse and propose solutions to the standardisation bottlenecks and needs within the process industry
  Ignacio Martín, CIRCE Foundation
• Methods for rapid and cost-effective nanotechnology testing and their standardisation
  Michael Stintz, Technical University Dresden
• Certification of medical devices
  Patrick Boisseau, CEA

Moderator: Sean O’Reagain, European Commission, DG Research & Innovation

Rapporteur: Marcela Alzin