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• CAN YOU HELP US? • EP IMCO report on Standardisation Strategy • AUWP 2023 published • Publication of Safety Gate report 2022 • ANEC meets the SIS board • ANEC - ETUC Webinar on Social Responsibility • Adoption of CEN standard for carry cots • Button batteries • New Chair of ANEC Working Group • Repairability of tools and garden machinery • ANEC Sustainability WG on climate-related standards • Disappointing timeline for FCM Regulation • Restrictions proposed for "forever chemicals" • To bin or not to bin? • ESOs/ENISA Cybersecurity Standardisation Conference • We ask for risk assessment of ISO/IEC JTC 1 standards • FIEP discusses fire safety and the involvement of women • ANEC responds to consultation on EURO 7

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ANEC statement on consumers' expectations concerning window blinds

Presentation to the 8th Conference on the Protection of children in cars "CRS for children with disabilities" Annex 1

ANEC position on SCHER opinion: Evaluation of the migration limits for chemical elements in toys (July 2010)

ANEC position on SCHER opinion: Risk from organic CMR substances in toys (May 2010)

ANEC/EDF answer to the BEREC public consultation on Electronic Communications Services: Ensuring Equivalence in Access and Choice for Disabled End-Users

Final ANEC/BEUC Reply to the public consultation on Proposal for a Commission definition of the term "nanomaterial"

ANEC Statement “Accessibility and Innovation”

ANEC Statement “Accessibility and Innovation” (Word version)

Hotel Fire Safety in the EU - The Consumer perspective, paper for the Segurhotel Congress, October 2010

ANEC/BEUC 2010 inventory of products claiming to contain nanoparticles

ANEC Response to COM(2010) 352/final ‘Europe, the world's No 1 tourist destination - a new political framework for tourism in Europe’

Revision of the Gas Appliances Directive: Key isues from a consumer perspective

ANEC comments on the CEN-CENELEC position on the IMCO draft report on the future of European standardisation

ANEC position on the possible streamlining of the legal and standardisation frameworks for toy safety

ANEC’s contribution to the Commission’s consultation on the implementation of the Services Directive

Joint ANEC/BEUC position Smart Energy Systems for empowered consumers

ANEC response to the draft IMCO Report on the future of European standardisation

ANEC Position Paper: Silent but dangerous: when absence of noise of cars is a factor of risk for pedestrians

Replies from ANEC and BEUC to the consultation on the General Product Safety Legislative Initiative

ANEC report “New standard for the visual accessibility of signs and signage for people with low vision” (Word version)

ANEC report “New standard for the visual accessibility of signs and signage for people with low vision” (PDF version)

ANEC statement on “New standard for the visual accessibility of signs and signage for people with low vision”

Final Report: Requirements on consumer information on Product Carbon Footprint

ANEC comments on CEN Horizontal European Services Standardisation Strategy (CHESS)

ANEC Position Paper on UNECE Regulation 44: Requirements for Child Restraint Systems (CRS)

Executive summary: ANEC study "Requirements on Consumer Information about Product Carbon Footprint"

ANEC/BEUC Position Paper: Consumer Relevant Ecodesign And Energy Labelling Requirements For Household Tumble Driers

ANEC R&T project on Child safety barriers

ANEC R&T project on exclusion clause

ANEC R&T project on surface temperatures

ANEC preliminary Position Paper on Consumer Requirements in Tourism Services

ANEC/BEUC position on ecodesign and labelling requirements for room air conditioning appliances

ANEC/BEUC joint position on Commission Guidelines for Voluntary Agreements under the Ecodesign Directive 2009/125/EC - The need for a coherent framework

ANEC response to the public consultation of the European Commission on Standardisation

Joint ANEC - EDF Reply to the Public Consultation on Universal Service Principles in eCommunications

Consumer relevant ecodesign and energy labelling requirements for household dishwashers

Consumer relevant ecodesign and energy labelling requirements for household washing machines

ANEC position on a new Strategy for European Information Society 2010-2015 (post i-2010)

ANEC open letter to the European Commission, DG ENTR, on CE Marking

ANEC statement for STAND4ALL project final workshop

ANEC/ BEUC position on the introduction of an Energy Label for refrigerating appliances

ANEC/ BEUC position on the introduction of an Energy Label for televisions

Final ANEC/BEUC input to EC consultation “Towards a Strategic Nanotechnology Action Plan 2010-2015”

Joint ANEC/BEUC Position Paper "Voluntary Agreements can only deliver if subject to Minimum Requirements – The Case of VAs in the Ecodesign Implementation Process"

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