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EFESME Position Paper on Standard Accessibility for SMEs in the Elevator Industry

Background Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of Europe’s economy. They represent the principal share of all businesses in the EU. In the past five years, they have created around 85% of new jobs and provided two thirds of the total private sector employment in the EU. The European Commission considers SMEs and […]

13 June 2017 Read more…

ETSI: an overview on the information and communication technologies standards

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is an independent, not-for-profit, world-leading standards developing organization for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) which was founded in 1988 by CEPT (European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations). Its headquarters are based in Sophia-Antipolis, France. Initially, ETSI was intended to be officially responsible for standardization of Information and Communication […]

28 April 2017 Read more…

The new standardisation request for lifts

The elaboration and adoption of harmonised standards is based upon a standardisation request (mandate) issued by the European Commission to the CEN (European Committee for Standardization) according to Regulation (EU) n. 1025/2012. When a standard meets the requirements set out in the request, the Commission publishes its reference in the Official Journal of the European […]

1 March 2017 Read more…

The added value of standardisation for SMEs

EFESME and SBS (Small Business Standards) jointly organised the national seminar “Standardisation for SMEs: sectoral representation at EU level” in Madrid on the 22nd September. Mr Massimo Bezzi, EFESME Vice-President, opened the meeting welcoming the participants and highlighting the importance of EFESME in the defence of the lift sector at EU level, this work is […]