46th ETSI/NSO Meeting and 67th General Assembly of ETSI

From 18 to 20 April 2015, in Sophia Antipolis-(France), a 46th  meeting of the National Standards Organizations (NSOs) and 67th  General Assembly of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) was held. Bosnia and Herzegovina was represented by Mirjana Šućur, Head of the Department for standardization in the field of IEC/ITU/CENELEC/ETSI and Dragan Ćućilo, standardization expert in the field of IEC/ITU/CENELEC/ETSI at the Institute for Standardization of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

At the 46th  meeting of the National Standards Organizations (NSOs), an  information between the representatives of national standardization bodies and ETSI on national implementation of standards published by ETSI have been exchanged.

At the 67th  General Assembly of ETSI the Budget Implementation Report for 2016, 2015 Annual Report, 2016 Budget and the Secretariat Business Plan of ETSI was discussed and adopted.

The results of ETSI work in 2015 and plans for 2016 were presented by Mr. Luis Jorge Romero, Director-General of ETSI.

Among other things, the structure of 817 ETSI members from 66 countries from 5 continents has been presented in the reports (Figure 1).

 




In 2015, ETSI has published a total of 1,843 standards and other standardization documents. The overview of published standardization documents, including 3GPP partnership projects during the last five years is shown in Table 1.

 

EN

ES

EG

GS

SR

TR

TS

Total

2011

81

19

7

6

6

212

2676

3007

2012

53

19

4

8

7

198

2427

2716

2013

56

21

2

22

5

68

1857

2031

2014

46

26

5

32

2

195

2025

2331

2015

73

54

14

50

9

128

1515

1843

Table 1 - documents published by ETSI from 2011-2015
Furthermore, the relationship between published first editions of European standards and a review of current standards has been presented (Figure 2).

 




During 2015, ETSI has accepted two mandates from the European Commission, namely M/536 for the preparation of harmonized standards under the Radio Equipment Directive (RED) 2014/53/EU and the mandate M/530 on privacy by design in cooperation with the joint working group of CEN/CENELEC JWG8, Privacy management in products and services. From total number of 73 published European standards, 25 European standards are harmonized  according to the Radio Equipment Directive.

During 2016,  230 standards and other standardization documents is planned to be adopted, of which 78 are harmonized European standards. 14 harmonized standards has been published by April 2016.