OREANDA-NEWS. June 19, 2014. Meetings of the 41st CEN General Assembly and the 54th CENELEC General Assembly were held in Istanbul, where Kazakhstan, represented by the Committee for Technical Regulation and Metrology, MINT was granted the partner standardization body status of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC).

At the session, CENELEC President Tore Tronvold noted that Kazakhstan is the first country to get the partner standardization body status with CENELEC and the fourth country to get the same status with CEN.

Chairman of the Technical Regulation and Metrology Committee Birzhan Kaneshev who attended the session expressed confidence that cooperation with CEN and CENELEC will help the EU and Kazakhstan harmonize legislation in the sphere of technical regulation and standardization.

Partnership with these two organizations will allow our experts to participate in the work of the CEN and CENELEC technical committees and in the development of European standards.