The document discusses standards related to tourism and eTourism. It begins with definitions of what a standard is, including friendly definitions and a formal EU definition. It then discusses basic standard principles of consensus, democracy, transparency and voluntary participation. It outlines the standardization process and describes who develops standards, including organizations like ISO, CEN, CENELEC, ETSI, UNI and CEI. It provides examples of existing standards materials for tourism through groups within ISO, CEN and UNI. It concludes with information on a CEN workshop on ICT interoperability for tourism that produced only an informational brochure.
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Unique European structure with regional standards bodies (CENELEC, CEN, ETSI)
Strong prerogatives for European standards bodies:
Provide harmonised standards for common market and in support of European regulation
(execute EU standardisation mandates) New Approach
Public procurement can only reference formal standards directly
Voting power on regional and international level remains with national standards bodies, which
requires local presence
CENELEC
National Bodies
(e.g. DKE, UTE, BSI, CEI)
CEN
ISO ITUIEC
National Bodies
(e.g. DIN, AFNOR, BSI, UNI)
ETSI
JTC 1
EuropeanStandardsEcosystem
National
Committees
(e.g. TB ETSI, CF ETSI,
GIETSI,DTI,CEI/UNI)