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Standards and innovation
What is a standard?How do standards promote innovation?
What is the role of governments and the UN?
What is a standard
• An «agreed way of doing something»
• «A document, established by consensus and approved by a recognized body, that provides, for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results, aimed at the achievement of the optimum degree of order in a given context» (ISO/IEC Guide 2:2004)
ISO 26000
Guidance on
social responsibility
ISO/IEC 31010
Risk management
Risk assessment
techniques
- Guidance on societal security
- Guidance on social responsibility
- Risk management – Risk assessment techniques
- Electrical apparatus for explosive atmospheres
Other examples
Standards & innovation
• Intuitively we associate standards with what is common, stable, and well mastered
• And innovation with the unique, the game breaker, and the unknown
• It is true that the slow uptake of standards, slow revision of existing standards, or lack of standards, may actually slow innovation
Standards promote innovation?
• Standards give innovators a level playing field facilitating interoperability and competition between new and existing products, services and processes;
• Standards provide customers with trust in the safety and performance of new products through reference to standardised methods;
• New standards are needed to introduce complex new systems, i.e. the Internet;
• The use of standards contributes to diffuse knowledge & facilitate the application of technology triggering further innovation.
EU policy: stds and innovation
Role of governments• Set the basis for vibrant and effective
standardization with participation from all stakeholders (SMEs, developing countries)
• Facilitate access to standards (for example by publishing abstracts of standards)
• Encourage both formal and informal standardization as appropriate for different sectors
• Avoid reference to dated standards in regulations
Role of the United Nations• Promote good regulatory practice (i.e.
reference to standards)• Promote convergence in technical
regulations in particularly important sectors (as a level playing field will facilitate interoperability)
• Promote good practice in the enforcement of regulations (such as market surveillance) so as to ensure that IPRs are protected
UNECE WP. 6What we are: • Intergovernmental body• Participation by: authorities, regional & int’l org, standards-
setting bodies, business, certification bodies, test houses, civil society
• From all UN Member States• 1970 – 2010: 40+ years
Our mandate:• Forum for dialogue on: Standardization Technical
regulations Conformity assessment Accreditation Metrology Market surveillance
Our activities • Share info & best practice• Capacity-building • Develop and maintain a set of recommendations • Implement a set of initiatives on specific industrial sectors
Main areas of work
Sectoral initiatives: • Develop/implement common regulatory framework x specific
sectors • So far: Telecommunications, Earth-moving equipment,
ExEquipment
Market surveillance: • Develop and share best practice/recommendations• Develop a common terminology• Worldwide database of market surveillance authorities Risk Management: • Best practice/Recommendation on using risk management tools in
developing and implementing regulations• New: 2 Recommendations + A book on “Crisis Management” and
“Risk management in Regulatory systems”
Next annual session18-20 November 2013
19 Nov. International Conference on Regulations and Standards which will discuss some of the concerns raised above
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