CLC Guide 33:2015

Guide to the CENELEC Permanent Delegate CLC Guide 33:2015

Scope

At its 138th meeting (held in Delft on 12-13 April 2011), the CENELEC Technical Board (BT) took the following decisions:
- D138/075 BT, in view of the implementation of the CENELEC strategy 2010-2013, agreed to establish a CENELEC/BT Action Plan and invited CCMC, together with the Vice-President Technical, to develop a proposal, with allocation of responsibilities, to be discussed in a BTWG 138-1 "CENELEC/BT Action Plan" under convenorship of the BT Chairman (Vice-President Technical).
- D138/076 BT invited BTWG 138-1 to submit their final proposal for consideration at 139 BT meeting, taking due account of the elements of the CEN/BT Action Plan and the possible common actions.
Successively, at its 140th meeting (held in Brussels on 31 January /1 February 2012), the BT took the following decisions:
- D140/006 BT welcomed the final draft of the CENELEC/BT Action Plan prepared by CLC/BTWG 138-1 further to their meeting of 2011-12-02.
- D140/007 BT approved Document BT140/DG8610/DC and invited the Champions and the involved Permanent Delegates to proceed with the implementation of the relevant actions.
Goal 3 of the approved document referred to: "Enhancing commitment of all CENELEC Members in technical work" (Champion: René Nielsen - DK).
During the work on this goal, sub-activity ‘Encouragement of the active participation of Permanent Delegates (PD’s) in the BT processes’ became the most important issue for further elaboration.
In connection with BT meetings 141, 142 and 143, workshops on this issue were arranged. At these workshops several permanent delegates presented to the participating colleagues the working methods in their respective national standardisation organisations.
One of the conclusions from the workshop held at the 142th BT meeting was the preparation of a reference paper which is a guide, which describes the role of the permanent delegates, both as participants in the work of the CENELEC Technical Board and at home in their national committee.
Thus this paper summarizes the results of the workshops (presentations + following discussions) and represents a guiding document for whoever is (or will be) called upon holding the position of CENELEC BT Permanent Delegate. Describing the task and responsibilities of a PD the document is useful for NC’s to identify which adequate resources, which has to be allocated to a Permanent Delegate in the organisation.