CEN/CLC Guide 3:2009

CEN and CENELEC co-operation agreement CEN/CLC Guide 3:2009

Scope

Based on:
- the ISO/IEC agreement of 1976,
- the mutual confidence gained in exercising the above-mentioned agreement,
- the commonly recognized need to represent together regional standardization in Europe towards intergovernmental institutions, organizations etc.,
- the need to coordinate the technical harmonization work for the benefit of all parties
interested in European standardization,
- the need to reduce the common costs of their office activities through co-ordination of
their daily work where appropriate, CEN and CENELEC being two European organizations complementing each other and together forming part of the European Standardization System, have defined their relationship and co-operation by the following agreement which replaces the guidelines for co-operation originally contained in the 1977 edition of CEN/CENELEC Memorandum 3.
This second edition of CEN/CENELEC Guide 3 includes a new article addressing the solving of technical disputes between the two organizations and has been editorially updated to reflect the changed world in which CEN and CENELEC operate.