🏠 With #WorldStandardsDay approaching, we draw attention to the role #standards can play in making the #energy #transition work for #consumers. 📄 Read our new paper on the EU #affordable #housing plan: tinyurl.com/mradfc9e #standards4SDGs #SDGs @cen-cenelec.bsky.social @isostandards.bsky.social

🌍 Ahead of #WorldStandardsDay, we highlight how #standards support affordable, clean and #sustainable #energy while protecting #consumers. For Energy Performance Certificates (#EPCs), standards help provide reliable information about homes' energy performance. 📄 tinyurl.com/yn4zce9k #SDG7 #EPBD

📢 As the #JTC21 Plenary concludes today, ANEC calls for #AI standards that truly protect consumers and ensure compliance with the #AIAct. 🎖️Key priorities: stronger civil society participation, clear and verifiable requirements, fundamental rights protection and greater consistency across standards.

ANEC welcomes the European Commission proposal aiming at modernising European #standardisation by enhancing stakeholder participation, especially #consumers & SMEs, ensuring transparency, #accessibility & #inclusion but implementation will be key. Read our position: tinyurl.com/5aksctxr

Day 2 of the Empowering the Western Balkans training is underway! 🚀 ANEC is ready to take the floor with a session on AI & standardisation and what this means for consumers. #AI #Standardisation #ConsumerProtection #WesternBalkans

The CEN-CENELEC JTC 21 Plenary starts today in Winterthur, Switzerland! ANEC representatives are there to discuss the latest developments in #AI standardisation and ensure that consumer interests remain at the heart of European AI standards. #AIAct #Standards #ConsumerProtection

📢 Join our #WorldStandardsDay webinar on how #standards can support affordable & #CleanEnergy while protecting consumers & the environment. 🌱⚡ With @anecstandards.bsky.social, @cen-cenelec.bsky.social & @ecos.ngo 🗓️ 12 Oct | 14:00–15:00 🔗 tinyurl.com/2btbx5ua

ANEC is proud to be in Skopje, North Macedonia, for the delivery of the training “Empowering the Western Balkans: Upskilling on the AI Act and GDPR”. We look forward to two days of learning and exchange together with our colleagues from BEUC and OPM, as part of the InDiCo Global project.

ANEC and Consumers International at @isostandards.bsky.social Annual Meeting 2026 working to increase #consumer protection in #standardisation! #Standards #Consumers #ISOAnnualMeeting #ISOAM26

📢 Join our #WorldStandardsDay webinar on how #standards can support affordable & #CleanEnergy while protecting consumers & the environment. 🌱⚡ With @anecstandards.bsky.social, @cen-cenelec.bsky.social & @ecos.ngo 🗓️ 12 Oct | 14:00–15:00 🔗 tinyurl.com/2btbx5ua

📢 The latest ANEC e-Newsletter is out! 🏆 ANEC calls for an ambitious European Product Act that delivers for consumers. ✏️ Also in this edition: the latest on AI standards, accessibility, product safety and more. 📰 Read it here: tinyurl.com/46mwa7dt

👩‍💻ANEC's webinar explored today how standards can help make services in sustainable cities & communities more accessible, inclusive, transparent and citizen-centred as they become increasingly digital. 📚Slides and agenda available here : tinyurl.com/mwcmybny

ANEC Webinar: Standardisation of Services to Citizens in Sustainable Cities and Communities - ANEC

ANEC invites you to a new public webinar taking place online on 16 September 2026, 9:30-11:30 CEST. Registration available here. The European Committee for Standardization, CEN, has recently published...

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🏙️ Smart communities should work for everyone. Our new factsheet highlights how standards can help make public services more accessible, inclusive and responsive to citizens’ needs, ensuring no one is left behind in the digital transition. 📄 Read more: tinyurl.com/399b4yc3

Consumer safety experts celebrating International Product Safety Week 🌍 Great to celebrate together with our members and colleagues from @beuc.eu, united in our commitment to safer #products for consumers. Raising #standards for #consumers. #IPSW2026 #ProductSafety #ConsumerSafety #Standardisation

🌤️ It may feel cooler outside, but don’t be fooled! Even when it's below 20°C, sunlight can still heat the inside of a parked vehicle to life-threatening temperatures. #LookBeforeYouLock and make sure no children or pets are left behind.

🐶 Don't forget about the safety of pets. They too can suffer fatal heatstrokes in parked vehicles. If it's too hot for a child, it's too hot for a pet. #LookBeforeYouLock 📖Read our factsheet for more details: tinyurl.com/37xvj562

💻The first European AI standard has been approved this summer, providing a framework for AI quality management systems, in line with the #AIAct. 🔎 Find out what this means for consumers in our new ANEC factsheet : tinyurl.com/yuy2s2cc

🤖How can we ensure AI works for consumers, not against them? 🛡️In Italy, consumer advocates at CODICI are engaging with AI standardisation to help ensure that the #AIAct delivers on safety, transparency and fundamental rights. Read more 👇 anec.eu/news-events/...

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CODICI Calls for Stronger Safeguards in the Implementation of Law No. 132/2025 As Italy moves forward with the implementation of Law No. 132/2025 and the European Union’s AI Act, consumer organisation...

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🚘 Looking for a new car? Consider models with child-presence detection systems. Technology can help reduce risks by alerting if a child was left behind. 💡This can save lives, especially during a heatwave. #ChildSafety #LookBeforeYouLock

As AI becomes part of everyday life, are standards keeping pace with the needs of older people? Our latest blog explores why meaningful consumer representation and consensus in standardisation are essential to ensure AI works for everyone. 👴👵 Read more : tinyurl.com/yewej3m8

☀️Heatstroke isn't only a risk during heatwaves. Sunlight can quickly turn a parked car into a dangerous place, even on a mild day. #ChildSafety #LookBeforeYouLock

📚ANEC launches a new public webinar on Standardisation of Services to Citizens in Sustainable Cities and Communities. ⏰Webinar takes place on 16/09 at 09:30 CEST. 📝More details and registration here: tinyurl.com/mwcmybny

📰New translations available for our children left in vehicles factsheet. Help us promote these if you are in one of these countries. 🙏 Portuguese version: tinyurl.com/5f64ka5a German version: tinyurl.com/3u38d8pa

📞Ask the daycare to call you immediately, if your child doesn't arrive at daycare as expected. A simple phone call could save a life. #ChildSafety #LookBeforeYouLock Read ANEC's practical safety leaflet: 📄 English: tinyurl.com/mp68myzv 📄 Spanish: tinyurl.com/msnpvunb 📄 Dutch: tinyurl.com/534ymc7j

🚗 Did you know? Around 80% of the temperature increase inside a parked car happens within the first 10 minutes. A quick errand is never worth the risk. Always take your child with you. #ChildSafety #LookBeforeYouLock For more details check our factsheet: tinyurl.com/mp68myzv

Our Bulgarian member, Prof. Elka Vasileva, presented the "Standards for a Sustainable Future" initiative at ANEC's 37th GA. The proposed National Roadmap for the Implementation of International Sustainability Standards 2025–2035 sparked discussion. Read more (in Bulgarian): tinyurl.com/4yadckwz

ANEC is looking for expert to represent #consumer interests in #standardisation of #Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies (CEN/CLC/JTC 19). If you have technical expertise in blockchain & DLT & would like to contribute to European standardisation, encourage you to apply➡️ tinyurl.com/z6ev78v6

📢 Civil society organisations representing patients, consumers, healthcare professionals, digital rights and standardisation are calling on EU co-legislators to keep AI-embedded medical devices within the scope of the #AIAct. Patient safety must come first! 📝Read our letter: tinyurl.com/3cf24ajy

☀️ A parked car can become deadly in just minutes. Even on a mild day, the temperature inside rises quickly, putting children at risk of heatstroke. Never leave a child alone in a vehicle, not even for a minute! #ChildSafety #LookBeforeYouLock Check our factsheet here: tinyurl.com/mp68myzv

⚽ Watching World Cup over a BBQ? Or camping this summer?⚠️ Never use a BBQ or camping stove inside a tent or caravan. They produce deadly #CarbonMonoxide (CO) – invisible gas. 🚨 Misusing a BBQ or camping stove can kill. 'Be Safe This Summer!' leaflet (9 languages) sonyalou.wixsite.com/leanonus/sum...