BSI Standards: Report to the Department for Business, Innovation

BSI Standards: Report to the Department for Business,

Innovation & SkillsUse of BIS funding and NSB activity for

the financial year 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014

...making excellence a habit.TM

1. Introduction 5

1.1 National Standards Body – an overview

2. Main funding envelope 6

2.1 Introduction 2.2 Areas of activity supported

– Influence and leadership – Support for standards development – Support for participation in standardization

2.3 Funding allocation2.4 Influence and leadership

– BSI membership for HMG – Contribution to membership of ISO/IEC/CEN/CENELEC

2.5 Support for standards development– Standards development programme– Published output of committees supported by BIS funding– Allocation summary– Priority Areas standards development programme – Staff Travel Fund

2.6 Support for Participation in Standardization– Assisted International Travel Scheme – Support for consumer participation in standardization

3. Working in the UK national interest 19

3.1 Working with Government 3.2 CEN, CENELEC and ETSI3.3 ISO, IEC and other international issues3.4 UK engagement3.5 Education 3.6 International projects 3.7 Committee member training

4. Other sources of funding 26

4.1 Smart Cities initiative4.2 Developing Standards in Emerging Technologies4.3 Support and commissioning from other HMG bodies

5. Appendices 32

5.1 Committees supported by Standards Development funding 5.2 Outputs of committees supported by Standards Development funding 5.3 Technical assistance provided to developing countries

Contents

Introduction

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As the UK National Standards Body (NSB), BSIrepresents UK economic and social interests atthe European and international standardsorganizations CEN, CENELEC, ETSI, ISO andIEC. We manage the national standards makingprocess, providing a service for organizationsof all sizes and across all sectors to developmarket led voluntary consensus standardsthrough open public consultation and fullstakeholder engagement. Our relationship withHer Majesty’s Government (HMG) is constitutedthrough a memorandum of understanding(MOU)* that sets out our role as the NSB.

The importance of standards to the EuropeanCommission in supporting EU legislation ishighlighted on the website of the DirectorateGeneral for Enterprise and Industry: “While theuse of standards remains voluntary, theEuropean Union has, since the mid-1980s,made increasing use of standards in support ofits policies and legislation. Standardization hascontributed significantly to the support of thecompletion of the Internal Market in thecontext of ‘New Approach’ legislation, whichrefers to European standards developed byEuropean standards organizations.”**

Effective participation in European standardsorganizations safeguards UK interests byensuring that standards used to demonstratecompliance with European Directives areacceptable to the UK.

Former Minister for Universities and Science,the Rt Hon David Willetts MP, visited BSI inMarch 2014. He was briefed on the role ofstandards versus regulations, how standardssupport innovation as well as gaining a betterunderstanding of our role.

During the year 2013/14 we have significantlyincreased our engagement activity with UKbusiness, industry and societal interests,strengthened our dialogue with our standardscommittee members and continued to invest infuture standards making capabilities. Thisreport addresses the use of funding from HMG,which comprised around 6% of BSI Standardsrevenue over that period.

1. Introduction

BSI is the UK’s NationalStandards Body (NSB),representing UK interestsinternationally anddelivering a world-classformal standards makingprocess at home.

* http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/16505/Memorandum_of_Understanding.pdf** http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/european-standards/index_en.htm

“The use of BIS funding hasenabled BSI, in its role as theNational Standards Body, to driveglobal leadership for the UK.”Scott Steedman CBE, Director of Standards, BSI

2.1 IntroductionDuring 2013/14 we continued to implement ourstrategy of providing a clear market sector focusfor our standardization work programme. Thisenables timely and effective solutions to theneeds of businesses trading in the UK andinternationally, and supports associated UKGovernment priorities.

Our standards work continues to be more than90 per cent self-funded. HMG funds activities inkey areas of public policy interest and priorityareas such as innovation.

Our standards-related activity met the objectivesfor the 2013/14 funding year set by the annualfunding agreement between the Department forBusiness, Innovation & Skills (BIS) and BSI. Thissection of the report summarizes our activityduring the year relating to the funding agreed forour work as the UK NSB.

The overall allocation for the funding year2013/14 was £4,430k. The full BIS contributiontowards standards-related activities was used.Total expenditure on these activities exceededthe 2013/14 allocation. Our traditional fund-associated NSB activities were supplemented bycommittee member training, higher educationwork and initiatives with other standards bodiesthat are developing a standards infrastructure.

2.2 Areas of activity supported Recognizing the importance of the work we doand that some aspects are not self-funding, BISfund specific activity in three main areas:

Influence and leadership supports theinfrastructure necessary for the UK toparticipate in European and internationalstandardization, while giving HMG access tostandards. The fund includes a subscription feethat gives all HMG departments and agencies alarge discount when buying standards publishedby BSI.

Support for standards development coversactivities relating to developing standardscontent. Most of the total funding is madeavailable for development activities in areas thatpromote key HMG policies, such ascompetitiveness, innovation, reduction of tradebarriers, fair trading and protection of consumerinterests, environmental protection and publicprocurement. There is specific development inemerging technology areas in support ofTechnology Strategy Board priorities.

In 2013/14 BIS funding contributed towards fullprogramme-management support for 147 UKstandards technical committees. Theirprogrammes largely comprise European andinternational work (95%), with some national

2. Main funding envelope

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work (5%). In addition, we continued to act asthe gateway for interested UK parties to takepart in international standardization throughsupport received from our Committee ServiceCentre (CSC).

In 2013/14 BIS-funded UK standards technicalcommittees, including those managed via ourCSC, facilitated publication of 1,954 new andupdated standards, with 1,297 withdrawn fromcirculation. Please refer to Appendix 5.1 fordetails of committees supported and Appendix5.2 for subject areas of the standardspublished.

Support for participation in standardizationenables UK participants in European andinternational standards work by contributingtowards their travel costs. Making sure that UKdelegates attend overseas standards meetingsis often key to ensuring that UK interests arerepresented when European and internationalstandards are created or updated. This fundalso helps ensure continued consumerparticipation in standardization by providingsupport towards travel to standards committeemeetings, recruitment and training for ournetwork of consumer representatives.During the year, BIS funding contributed to thetravel costs of 2,946 UK experts participatingon behalf of the UK at overseas European andinternational standardization meetings.

Main funding envelope

Agreed Original movement funding of funds up Final funding

allocation (£k) to 25% (£k) allocation (£k)

Influence and leadershipBSI membership for HMG 365 0 365Contribution to membershipof ISO/IEC/CEN/CENELEC 500 0 500Management fee 54 0 54

Total 919 0 919

Support for standards developmentGeneral – NSB activityand public intereststandards development (including staff travel) 1,231 0 1,231Priority Areas standards development 1,000 0 1,000

Total 2,231 0 2,231

Support for participation in standardizationAssisted International Travel Scheme 1,190 19 1,209Support for consumer participation in standardization 90 (19) 71

Total 1,280 0 1,280

Total funding 4,430 0 4,430

2.3 Funding allocation

“Development and application of standards are key factors in supportingcompetitiveness, innovation, reduction of trade barriers, protection of consumerinterests, sustainability and economic growth. BSI’s strengths as the UK’snational standards body, especially in developing standards in new areas, help togive the UK a competitive edge in the global economy. BSI’s growing partnershipwith the Technology Strategy Board in the development of new standards inemerging technologies – for example synthetic biology, cell therapies, assistedliving and offshore renewable energy – is an especially exciting opportunity.”Mark Holmes, Deputy Director, Innovation Infrastructure & Impact, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills.

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2.4 Influence and leadership BSI Membership for HMG

All HMG departments and agencies wereprovided with access to BSI Member services,which includes:

• 50 per cent off British Standards (including adopted European and international standards)

• 50 per cent off BSI’s online database product,BSOL

• Up to 10 per cent off international (ISO) and non-UK standards (e.g. DIN German standards)

• 50 per cent off many BSI conferences• Free postage and packing when buying

hard copy standards, as well as credit where prepayment when buying a standard is not necessary

• Access to the Private List Updating Service (i.e. validation and tracking of a standards list provided by the Member, with new versions sent automatically when they are updated)

• Expert help from the BSI Knowledge Centre, including advanced subject searches and fast identification of international equivalents from more than 200 standards organizations in 23 countries

• Inexpensive access to international and foreign national standards including American, ISO and DIN, through a postal loan service; and the sale of withdrawn British Standards

We continue to work with BIS to make HMGaware of BSI Membership benefits. In 2012/13we updated and refreshed our leaflet thatexplains the benefits of the HMG Membershippackage. Distribution continued throughout2013/14. In May 2013 it was sent to HMGmembers of our standards committees and inJune it was promoted via a news story on theBIS intranet, alongside access instructions forthe BSOL account. We’re working to get similarstories on other government departmentintranets.

This activity is carried out in conjunction withother efforts to promote standardization withingovernment departments, as well as supportingBIS in meetings and follow-up actions from thecross-governmental Taking StandardizationForward committee.

As part of their Membership, we continue tomanage several government departments as‘key accounts’, where our key accountmanagers work closely with their HMG contactsto develop a strong relationship, ensuringindividual department and agency requirementsare met.


ObjectivesHMG departments and agencieshold a central BSI Membership

agreement that enables them to accessstandards in a comprehensive and cost-effective manner, as well as other BSImembership benefits such as alerting,advisory and information services.

• Membership benefits to all governmentdepartments and agencies.

• BIS, as the lead HMG department working with BSI, receive subscription access to British Standards Online (BSOL) for department use only. Extensions to other HMG bodies are excluded.

• BIS to work with BSI to agree activities to raise awareness of the Membership services available to HMG departments and their agencies.

“Defra value the relationship cultivated between themselves and BSI. Both partiesinvest time to work collaboratively to identify areas that could be improved andwould benefit by the introduction of British Standards. Defra are conscious thatstandards have proven to be highly successful for businesses, and they can be usedas a basis for the development of government regulation.

The discounted access to standards, provided by the BIS-funded HMG BSI Membership, is useful as a cost effective tool to acquire a standard for thoserequiring specific standard information.”Sue Proudman, Resource, Atmosphere and Sustainability (RAS), Defra

Contribution to membership of ISO/IEC/CEN/CENELEC

The financial contribution to our internationaland European subscriptions represents part ofBIS’s direct support to the standardsinfrastructure. Our membership ofinternational and European standardsorganizations supported through thiscontribution enables the UK to maintain astandards infrastructure consistent withEuropean standards policy as required by theMoU between BSI and HMG.

Membership also opens gateways forinternational discussions, enabling UKstakeholders to participate in the developmentof international and European standards, whileenabling us to influence, on behalf of the UK ata high level, the policies and strategies oforganizations such as ISO, IEC, CEN andCENELEC.

Under European Regulation 1025/2012, EUmember states must give notification of anynew national standards being developed.During this year, 125 new British Standardsprojects were reported to CEN/CENELEC.

BSI Director of Standards, Dr Scott Steedman,continued his role as CEN Vice President (Policy)during the year. We participate in all key policydevelopment committees of the internationaland European standards organizations,including administrative boards and technicalboards. We also provide leadership by holdinginternational standards committee secretariatsin key areas for the UK, such as energymanagement, sustainability, qualitymanagement, nanotechnologies, environmentalmanagement, anti-bribery and wave energy.

The BIS contribution makes up approximately23% of our annual subscriptions to ISO, IEC,CEN and CENELEC.

2.5 Support for standardsdevelopment

This funding contributes towards activities weundertake to meet UK formal standardizationneeds and to facilitate UK participation ininternational standardization. These activitiesinclude:

• Support via named BSI staff as programme managers for eligible UK national committees and European/international committees (including where the UK holds the secretariat of the latter)

• Support via the BSI CSC for some UK national committees, providing a gateway to interested UK parties for participation in European and international standardization

• A continued Priority Areas programme of proactive development of standardization supporting HMG policy priorities, via projectsdrawing on a unique mix of BSI standards development activities (e.g. pilots and case studies, research, funded leadership positions, etc.)


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ObjectivesThis fund supports UKobligations under European

Regulation 1025/2012, which aims toprevent the creation of new technicalbarriers to trade. The purpose of thisactivity is to:

• Ensure we maintain an appropriate presence on key international and European committees and fora to enable the UK to influence standards policy.

• Ensure that UK obligations under European Regulation 1025/2012 have been fulfilled.

ObjectivesSupport of our standardsdevelopment programme

including: programme managementsupport for eligible BSI committeesmeeting scheme criteria; access tointernational standardization provided forcommittees by our Committee ServiceCentre (CSC); BSI staff travel in support ofstandards development and the PriorityAreas for Standardization projects.

Implementation of the 2013/14 PriorityAreas programme of work, as agreed withBIS in relation to HMG priorities/policies,including use of the Investment Case andOne Page Project Plan templates foreffective programme management andmonitoring.

BIS contribution

22.5%BSI contribution

77.5%

22.5%

Subscriptions to ISO/IEC/CEN/CENELEC

77.5%

Standards development programmeUnder our standards development programmescheme rules, funding is applied to non-commercially viable UK committees whosework supports HMG priorities in relation to:

• Government or public interest (i.e. regulation, public procurement, consumer protection and safety)

• Standardization supporting Priority Areas (pre-competitive standardization supportinginnovation, such as Technology Strategy Board priorities)

• NSB international work programme (i.e. activities the NSB conducts to fulfil its core function on behalf of the UK)

• Specific/urgent industry standardization (i.e.promoting productivity or UK competitiveness in world markets through standardization that protects UK interests, exploits UK expertise and has a large impacton UK industry, including international secretariats)

Non-commercially viable UK committees arethose where the use of resource (in the form ofour staff supporting the UK committee and,where applicable, any corresponding BSI-runEuropean or international secretariats) exceedsthe average annual income generated by salesof standards assigned to that UK committee.

A forecast of the eligible committees and theHMG priorities supported by their workprogramme is developed via a review of thework programme and drivers for UKcommittees and their corresponding UK-heldsecretariats, supported by named BSIprogramme managers. The review is integral tothe overall BSI Standards market developmentplanning process, whereby each sector teamanalyses its overall standards pipeline andforecasts resources accordingly. The use of our staff in support of UKcommittees (and corresponding BSI-runinternational secretariats where applicable) ismonitored each quarter. At the end of the finalquarter, the actual resource employed duringthe funding year is determined and committees

with a main HMG priority are confirmed andadded to the initial forecast list or removed asappropriate.

The list of technical committees supported byStandards Development funding in the year isdetailed in Appendix 5.1.

At the end of the funding year, 147 technicalcommittees identified as candidates requiredsupport from the Standards Development fund.The costs of supporting these committees andthose managed via the BSI Committee ServiceCentre exceeded the available contribution.

Published output of committees supported by BIS fundingDuring 2013/14, the 147 UK standardscommittees that received BIS funding andsupport from named BSI ProgrammeManagers facilitated the publication of 939new and updated standards, with 435withdrawn from circulation.

A further 1,015 standards were published and862 withdrawn as a result of access tointernational standardization facilitated by theCSC. Please refer to Appendix 5.1 for details ofcommittees supported and Appendix 5.2 forthe subject areas of the standards outputs.


Number Chargeableof eligible days worked Funding

Category2 committees Apr 13-Mar 14 requirement1

1. Government or public interestRegulation, consumer protection, safety, etc. 77 1,425 £799k

2. Standardization supporting Priority AreasBSI Priority Areas programme3 £720kPriority Areas committeesInnovation, Procurement, Better Regulation, Sustainability, Infrastructure 55 1,554 £872k

3. NSB international work programme(includes technical and sub-committees) 425 2,310 £1,327k

4. Specific/urgent industry standardizationProductivity and UK competitiveness 15 338 £189k

Total Cost 5,626 £3,908k

1. The full cost of the support in the areas shown exceeds funding provided, with BSI covering the shortfall.2. The total cost and days worked are assigned to one category only, although some committees are eligible in more than

one category.3. Funding applied for Priority Areas projects relates to activity delivered in the year. The total value of projects committed to

in the year was £520k, in line with the prior year.

Allocation summary

Priority Areas standards developmentprogrammeWe delivered a varied programme ofstandardization activity to support policypriorities and the innovation agenda, rangingfrom standards strategy creation and deliverywork to communication and awareness-raisingactivities.

As previously, the cross-departmental TakingStandardization Forward committee, managedby BIS, validated and shaped the Priority AreasStandards Development Programme. All2013/14 project proposals put forward –including those that proposed funding for arepeated intervention – went through aninvestment case process.

2013/14 Priority Areas programme highlights:

Raising awareness of BS 8848Numerous events were held to raise awarenessof the newly revised BS 8848 Specification forthe provision of visits, fieldwork, expeditions,and adventurous activities, outside the UnitedKingdom. BS 8848 is gaining recognition as theindustry benchmark for organizationsplanning, operating or organizing adventurousactivities outside of the UK. It seeks to ensurethat risks are managed and minimized. We

sought to raise the standard’s profile amongthe mainstream tourism industry, wider public,education institutions and charities. Thiscoincided with the standard’s first revision andthe need to maximize stakeholder engagementand stimulate views from across the industry sothe revised standard met the needs of themarket, consumers and government.

More than 300 comments were gathered, aidedby an event we staged in June 2013 at the RoyalGeographical Society (RGS), which sought inputfrom the adventure travel market. We alsoexhibited at the RGS Explorer event inNovember 2013 and at The Telegraph OutdoorAdventure & Travel Show in January 2014 atExcel, London. Consumer and industryengagement has been strong throughout, and aBS 8848 awareness-raising event in April 2014attracted a high registration rate of 190 people.

Our BS 8848 consumer guidance is beingrevised to create a brochure that will helpensure that participants and their families canmake better-informed decisions when choosinga provider.

Wiltshire-based Year Out Group representsleading UK-based providers of year-outprogrammes. Its CEO Richard Oliver says: “The

revised version will be even easier to follow. Theoriginal document was written primarily withgroups in mind, which was problematic forthose offering individual activities. This hasbeen addressed. The ultimate benefactors willbe those taking part in activities overseas –their safety is paramount.” Shane Winser ofRGS summarizes: “BS 8848 is agroundbreaking tool that can help organizers ofadventurous activities overseas to benchmarksafety.”

Enabling self-regulation of financial servicesCo-funded and in partnership with theChartered Institute for Securities andInvestment, we commissioned research intohow standards could enable better self-regulation of the financial services sector. It alsoaimed to illustrate how standards function inthis way in other sectors, while identifying gapsand possible barriers to adoption.

The resulting report – Backing Market Forces:How to Make Voluntary Standards Markets Workfor Financial Services Regulation – waspublished in November 2013. As well as beingmade available online, 3,000 hard copies weredistributed and a soft launch event was heldwith representatives from industry, trade bodiesand regulators in attendance.


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Several high-profile media organisations andpublications (e.g. Reuters UK, The EconomicVoice, HR Director Magazine and The EveningStandard) reported key findings and BSI Directorof Standards, Dr Scott Steedman, wasinterviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Todayprogramme. Follow-up research and industryengagement under 2014/15 funding isunderway. It aims to identify specific areaswhere standards can add value to the financialservices industry.

Responsible sourcing stakeholder forum Standardization in responsible sourcing ischaracterized by lack of harmonization, aproliferation of labels, consumer confusion andburden of costs on producers. A 2012/13 BIS-funded report provided a thorough explorationof standards and policy in this area, whileidentifying areas where responsible sourcingstandards could be created or improved.

A stakeholder forum was held in October 2013to validate and prioritize research results. Itbrought together key stakeholder grouprepresentatives to discuss where collaborativestandardization is most needed and how itcould be taken forward. On the day we hosteda lively conversation between stakeholders, aswell as engaging key organizations (such asISEAL, the global membership association forsustainability standards). Sustainability leadersshared their perspectives on key challengesand opportunities, while our research findingswere reported, with attendees later splitting offinto discussion groups.

Outcomes and next steps were captured in areport later circulated to all attendees andmade available on our website (together withpresentations from the day). Findings are beinganalyzed to determine specific actions andprojects to take forward. We will continue theconversation with stakeholders and workclosely with DEFRA to ensure policy fit.


The 2013/14 Priority Areas budget was allocated to the following:

Reference number Project title

INN13-01 Priority Areas managementINN13-02 National and international secretariats for eligible Priority Areas

committeesINN13-03 Construction and Built Environment Policy and Strategy Committee (CB/-)

– committee leadershipINN13-04 BS 8848 Specification for the provision of visits, fieldwork, expeditions

and adventurous activities outside the United Kingdom – awareness-raising activities

INN13-05 BS EN 16274-1 Energy Audits – pilots/case studies and communication event

INN13-06 Financial services – research to determine future standards strategyINN13-07 BS 8892 Transition of facility related services – document developmentINN13-08 Strategic Policy Group for Fire Standardization (FSH/0) – committee

leadershipINN13-09 Responsible sourcing standardization – stakeholder forumINN13-10 Education about standardization – researchINN13-11 BS 8900 Managing sustainable development of organizations – researchINN13-12 Biometrics (IST/44) – committee leadershipINN13-13 Security techniques (identity management and privacy technologies)

(IST/33/-/5) – committee leadership INN13-14 Circular economy/waste prevention – research and stakeholder eventINN13-15 Product carbon footprinting – SME guidanceINN13-16 Internet of Things – stakeholder forum and standards strategyINN13-17 BS 8895 Designing for material efficiency in building projects, part 2:

Code of Practice for Concept and Developed Design – document development

INN13-18 BS 7543 Guide to durability of buildings and building elements, products and components – document revision

INN13-19 Information security management – research (market survey)INN13-20 Understanding the UK SME market – researchINN13-21 Standards for societal security – mapping and guidanceINN13-22 Strategic relationship with EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in

Through-life Engineering Services at Cranfield University: year threeINN13-23 Packaging and defence standardization pilot project

IoT stakeholder forum According to the Technology Strategy Board(TSB), the “Internet of Things” (IoT) will enable“internet-enabled devices [to] network andcommunicate with each other and other web-enabled gadgets”. It could transform how we liveand age, travel and find out about services andentertainment as our surroundings change.

It is estimated that the number of connectedobjects will reach 50bn by 2020 and thepotential added value of IoT-enabled servicesamounts to hundreds of billions of pounds ayear. The TSB has launched an initiative thatseeks to accelerate an ecosystem of applicationsand services. The IoT is an underpinningtechnology for TSB initiatives in ConnectedDigital Economy and Future Cities, as well as anenabler for Future Transport, Healthcare and Big Data. This project we undertook proposedstakeholder engagement and mapping to better understand standardization requirementsin this area.

The event took place on 24 January 2014, with 95people attending. The day began withpresentations on security, privacy, lessons fromhistory, the role of biometrics, etc., continuedwith networking over lunch and ended withdiscussion workshops. A Twitter feed to captureattendees’ comments was broadcast during theevent.

Standards mapping work (in progress) will resultin a report with recommendations we will takeforward. We’re hosting an internationalworkshop as part of the international IoTcommittee meeting in July 2014.

Staff Travel Fund

An allowance for staff travel is available withinthe Support for Standards Development budget.It enables our staff to accompany UK committeemembers to meetings and provide the guidanceand support that enables technical experts anddelegates to maximize their influence duringoverseas meetings, which ultimately benefits theUK. This funding continues to provide valuablesupport to UK committee members.


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Case studies

Halal foodProgramme Manager JoannaMacnamara supported UKdelegates new to standardization in the newEuropean technicalcommittee for Halal food.

The Staff Travel Fund enabled her to attend thefirst launch meeting and a second meeting atwhich a first draft of a new standard was approved.This support is likely to continue for the next fewmeetings, because the CEN chair and secretary are newto standardization. The guidance given to UK attendeesensures progress can be made, with the UK position promoted.

Water qualityThe fund enabled ourProgramme Manager TomDigby-Rogers to attend theEuropean TechnicalCommittee on Water Qualityto support the UK

delegation in advancing a UK proposal. Theproposal aims to improve the environment ofendangered species, supporting both the EU WaterFramework Directive and the Habitats Directive.

Horology Horology is the science ofmeasuring time. ProgrammeManager Sarah Horsfieldattended a meeting of theinternational technicalcommittee on horology to

support the UK delegation. With a key UK expertleaving the national committee, UK internationalinvolvement had been limited in recent years, butwith a new expert who was new to standardizationrepresenting the UK, and the REACH (Registration,Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals)European regulation impacting on the watch and jewellery industries, guidance onprogressing standards was essential. The ISO committee discussed an important Europeanstandard for which the UK had put forward a proposal to amend. After the ISO meeting, theUK committee amended its proposal to give it a better chance of succeeding.

2.6 Support for Participation in Standardization

Assisted International Travel Scheme The AITS fund supports UK participants ininternational standards work by contributingtowards their travel costs. The presence of UKdelegates at international standards meetingsensures UK interests are represented wheninternational standards are created oramended. Without this assistance manyexperts and delegates would not be able toparticipate.

In 2013/14 AITS funding of £1,209k wasawarded. The scheme supported theattendance of 2,946 UK committee membersat international meetings in various roles overthe course of the funding year.

During 2013/14 the fund was used mainly bySMEs, in line with government priorities forSME access. Although this funding is crucial forsmaller companies without resources toattend, it also allows technical staff withinlarger companies to justify travel costs andtime away from their employers.


ObjectivesFinancial support to UK delegatesfor meetings related to

international standardization through theAssisted International Travel Scheme (AITS).

• Continued management of AITS spend by allocating the fund across four period phases. The projected spend against budget for each phase will be monitored to prevent overspend.

• Monitor use of the fund for 2013/14 to ensure maintenance of UK presence at core meetings.

• Monitor use of the fund for 2013/14 to ensure it is used predominantly by SMEs (i.e. small and medium-sized businesses).

Quality managementsystemsColin MacNee has beeninvolved in the UK nationalcommittee for 23 years andin the internationalcommittee for 18. Up until

three years ago a global corporation supported hisparticipation, but for the past three years he hasrun his own one-person business. In that time hehas received almost £5,500 in AITS funding, whileproviding more than £6,000 in personal funding totravel to ISO meetings, as well as £2,500 for UKmeetings. That equals 10 weeks of internationalmeetings and four of national meetings. In thattime he has contributed internationally to ISO 9001,ISO/TS 9002 and ISO/IEC 17021-3 and nationally tothe ISO/IEC 22000 and ISO/IEC 27001 – aconsiderable investment of his time and money.

Colin explains: “As the owner of a very smallbusiness, I can’t commit the resources of a hundredbillion dollar business. However, I can make asignificant personal investment. As the secretary ofISO/TC 176/SC 2/WG 24 I’m a critical resource inthe delivery of ISO's most successful managementsystem standard, which now has more than amillion accredited certifications worldwide. If itwere not for AITS I couldn't do the work and UK plcwould suffer in participation and prestige,” hestresses.

Case study

Support for consumer participation instandardization


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ObjectivesManage effective consumer andpublic interest participation in

standardization through their contributinginnovative ideas and playing a key role inshaping standards.

• Support for consumer participation in standardization (including assisted consumer travel).

• Organize Consumer & Public Interest Network (CPIN) meetings and training focussing on topics relevant to the consumer and public interest (at least two CPIN meetings and at least one at an appropriate external venue).

• Maintain awareness of standards. Arrange the preparation/revision of at least one publication and/or at least onerelevant background research/specific project to ensure evidence base.

• Maintain the number and relevance of individuals involved in the process to match CPIN priorities. Widen the age profile of CPI representatives to include a higher proportion of younger members.

• Ensure CPI representatives’ attendancesat UK and international standardization meetings in accordance with relevant areas of interest (at least 100 during the year).

Packaging and environmentalstandardizationJohn Swift is the Chairman ofthe national standardscommittee on Packaging,PKW/0. “The AITS schemeand the support it gives to

experts in my specialist area of packaging andenvironmental standardization have always beeninvaluable,” he says. “But with the financial pressuresbusinesses have been under in recent times it’sbecome absolutely invaluable in maintaining UKinvolvement and influence in key European andinternational standards meetings.”

Recounting two recent examples he adds: “I’m the lead UKand European expert in packaging terminology. At the endof 2013 a working group meeting was held in Minneapolis,USA. Without the AITS funding, I would not have been ableto attend and there would have been a very slantedoutcome. My attendance ensured a much more balancedapproach, safeguarding UK and wider European interests.

”Representation on the ISO environment technicalcommittee has reduced in recent years mainly because anincreasing number of experts are self-employed, so theydon’t receive the support large companies used to provide.The AITS scheme is vital in enabling the continuingattendance of many UK experts. Experts such as myself arestill able to ensure that UK interests are properlysafeguarded,” he argues.

Case study

Consumer involvement in standardizationThe current priority areas for consumerinvolvement in standardization are:

• Inclusivity (includes accessibility, design for all and vulnerability)

• Security, privacy and identity• Sustainability (includes energy and

environment)• Wellbeing (includes health and safety)• Services standardization

With these areas as the focus, CPIrepresentatives have been involved in morethan 115 UK and international standardstechnical committee meetings and workinggroups. Topics have included: accessibilityguidance to standards developers; aestheticsurgery; biotechnology; child safety guidance;comparative testing of consumer products;complaints handling; customer services;design life of buildings; environmentalmanagement and labels; fairground andamusement parks; ladders; nanotechnology;performance description of houses; privacyand data protection; public information symbols; recreational diving services; robots

and robotic devices and; safety of electronicequipment, household electrical and motorizedappliances.

CPI representatives plan what they wish toachieve in meetings to develop specificstandards and report against these objectives.Some examples of the purpose and benefits ofconsumer involvement include:

Societal and citizen security A CPI representative (and human factorsexpert) organized a successful workshop at ameeting of the relevant European technicalcommittee. This included presentations fromthe Chair of the ISO consumer policycommittee and President of ANEC (theEuropean voice of consumers instandardization). A plenary resolution wasmade to set up a task group to developguidance on consumer and citizen issuesrelating to societal security, to be led by the UKCPI representative.

Robot ethicsA CPI representative is a key member of thegroup that considers social and ethical issuesrelating to developing robots to be used insocial, personal, domestic and medicalapplications. The group explored instanceswhen people would and wouldn’t feel happyabout close interaction with robots, leading toa proposal for a guide on the ethnical designand application of robots and robotic systems.

Child safety issuesLed by a CPI representative (and child safetyexpert from the Child Accident PreventionTrust), the ISO Consumer Policy Committee(COPOLCO) working group has revisedguidelines for standards developers on childsafety issues. The CPI representative led adiscussion on the draft guide at the COPOLCOmeeting in May 2013.

Increasing consumer awareness of standardization Standards matter to consumers is a newbrochure that was partially funded by BIS anddistributed at the Trading Standards InstituteConsumer Affairs & Trading Standardsconference in Brighton in June 2013. It coversstandards in the consumer and public interestpriority areas of services, wellbeing, inclusivity,sustainability, security and privacy. Anaccessible PDF version (and other consumerstandards leaflets) can be downloaded fromour website.

In early 2014, our staff and several CPIrepresentatives worked with the BBC on 15half-hour programmes broadcast in Marchrelating to standards, product testing andimprovements made over the years. Topicscovered included the safety of glass ovendoors, cycle helmets and blind cords.


Contacts with wider organizations Our Consumer and Public Interest Unit (CPIU)staff have maintained or renewed contactswith various public interest organizations atevents or specific meetings, including Age UK,Legal Services Board, Trading StandardsInstitute and the UK European ConsumerCentre (which assists consumers in handlingcross-border complaints).

We’re a member of the Electrical Safety CouncilElectrical Safety of Products Committee, whichenables us to share knowledge about electricalproduct safety concerns and how this feedsinto standards committees. A CPIrepresentative from the manufacturing sectorattends this committee and the CPICoordinator for Risk presented a poster on thenew international instructions standard at theElectrical Safety Conference in May 2013. In April 2013, CPIU staff and CPIrepresentatives met with staff from renowned(Consumers’ Association-published) magazineWhich? to identify how they can work withnetwork members to influence standards.Knowledge and contacts were exchanged andhopefully more references to standards willappear in the magazine, with increased input instandards development from Which? staff,particularly where testing has revealed areaswhere standards could be improved or

extended. A subsequent meeting took placebetween Which? and the CPI Coordinator forRisk to discuss product recall in relation tostandards.

Information has been provided to SWASA(Swaziland’s standards body) on how weorganize consumer and public involvement instandardization. The topic was also covered ina study visit by 13 delegates fromCommonwealth developing countries inNovember 2013.

A closer relationship is being developed withthe UK Sustainability Network forStandardization. The Trades Union Congressand new organizations HealthWatch andHolidayTravelWatch have been added to theCPI Network.

Consumers International Through the CPIU, we’re now supporter-members of Consumers International (CI),which gives our CPI representatives access toworldwide information and training. The CPIUManager gave our perspective on consumerinterests and standards in a CI training webinarthat attracted more than 90 participants fromdeveloping countries.

Access to complaints dataWe’ve signed a data sharing arrangement withCitizens Advice to gain access to basicstatistical data about complaints. This can beused to feed into standards development andnegotiations are continuing to get morevaluable detailed case information.

Encouraging young consumers Once again we were proud to be one of thesponsors of the Trading Standards InstituteYoung Consumers competition. We alsosponsored a similar competition for schools forchildren with learning disabilities, organized byBirmingham City Council.


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Policy, planning and informative meetingsOur Consumer & Public Interest StrategicAdvisory Committee (CPISAC) consists ofrepresentatives from key UK consumer andpublic interest organizations, including newmembers, the Electrical Safety Council andHealthWatch.

It provides a forum for discussing consumerconcerns and how they influence or areinfluenced by standardization, at national,European and international level. The CPISACchair also provides consumer representationon the BSI Standards Policy and StrategyCommittee. CPISAC is now chaired by ChristineHeemskerk, former chair of the TradingStandards Institute, who took over fromconsumer journalist and broadcaster LynnFaulds Wood in October 2013.

CPISAC met at Citizens Advice in September2013 and at BSI in February 2014. The Februarymeeting was a workshop to which a broadergroup, including the British Retail Consortiumand Financial Conduct Authority, were invitedto help develop the 2015-17 CPI Strategy.

Two CPI network meetings took place in 2013:the summer meeting at the TSI ConsumerAffairs & Trading Standards conference inBrighton in June and the winter meeting at BSIin December.

ISO COPOLCOOur involvement with CPIN in the ISOConsumer Policy Committee (COPOLCO) ismanifold. The UK has representatives on theCOPOLCO Chairs Group and it co-chairs (withArgentina) a key working group – ConsumerParticipation & Training. There are UKrepresentatives on all other working groupsand several task groups, and CPIrepresentatives lead on such topics as graphicsymbols, nanotechnology and protection ofpersonal data.

The COPOLCO plenary and workshop was heldin Malta in May 2013. Because it was in Europe,a larger than usual UK delegation attended thisvaluable information-sharing and networkingopportunity.

Development of 2015-2017 CPI StrategyA key activity during 2013/14 was thedevelopment of the next three-year CPIStrategy. Discussion took place at theDecember 2013 all-members meeting, CPICpanel meetings and CPISAC workshop inFebruary 2014. It included discussion on howbroadly the ‘public interest’ and CPINmembership should be interpreted and itconsidered some of the recommendationsfrom the Regional Diversity project that startedin 2013. Proposals for the new strategy went tothe Standards Policy and Strategy Committee.


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We also support consumer and public interestin standards development by funding the BSIConsumer & Public Interest Unit (CPIU) andhonoraria for the volunteer Consumer & PublicInterest Coordinators.

Throughout 2013/14 we continued to improveour standards development tools to ensurethey provide an excellent, accessible service tocommittee members and wider stakeholders,while maximizing the transparency ofstandardization activities.

More than 1,300 committee memberscompleted an online survey in October 2013,which provided detailed insight into members’attitudes and the demographics of ourcommittees. A standards forum event held inNovember 2013 in London attracted 200delegates, with more than 60 attending aworkshop to discuss the survey results.

From this we identified key themes to focus onfor ongoing engagement with members: theneed for better recognition, recruitment andcommunication; improved ways of working;more cross over between committees; andwider engagement in standards making. Acurrent project is seeking to deliver initiativesacross all of these areas, including an awardsscheme for committee members, developmentof collateral to help recruit new members and awelcome pack for new members.

BSI Director of Standards, Dr Scott Steedman,travelled to China as part of the PrimeMinister’s trade delegation. While there, hesigned an agreement with the Minister forGeneral Administration of Quality Supervision,Inspection and Quarantine (signatory forChina’s National Standards Body) in front ofthe Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and UK PrimeMinister David Cameron. The agreement opensthe door for business to put forward Britishand European standards for potentialrecognition or adoption by China.

The Rt Hon David Willetts MP, former Ministerfor Universities and Science, visited BSI on 13March. He was briefed on how standards cancomplement or be used in place of regulationsand support innovation, as well as finding outmore about our work.

During the year, Dr Scott Steedman remainedin his role as Vice President (Policy) for CEN,continuing our record of holding leadershippositions in the European and internationalstandards organizations to ensure UKinfluence.

Working with donor agencies, we delivered arange of projects to support the standards andquality infrastructures in countries across theglobe, including key trading partners, emergingeconomies and developing countries.

We’ve continued to work to improve access forsmall businesses to the standards developmentprocess. The establishment of a new SMEforum to provide opportunities for them tofeedback to us on standardization strategy andpolicy matters and the continued investment inweb-based tools and video conferencing aretwo major developments. We’ve alsocommissioned a two-stage research projectinto UK SMEs to better understand what theyneed from standards and how their access tothe standardization process can be improved(see list of Priority Areas projects, section 2.5).We continue to take a leading role in the small-business related activities of CEN/CENELEC.

3.1 Working with governmentIn his 2012 report, No stone unturned: in pursuitof growth, Lord Heseltine gave his wide-rangingeconomic plan to improve the UK’s ability tocreate wealth. One of his recommendationswas for BSI to work closely with the TechnologyStrategy Board (TSB) and Research Councils tocreate standards for new technologies andservices at the earliest opportunity.

3. Working in the UK national interest

As in 2012/13, wecontinued to use our ownfunding to coverimportant work carriedout by the internationalprojects, education andcommittee membertraining functions, whichcontinue to thrive.

In 2013 we started working on four TSB pilotstudies concerning offshore renewable energy,synthetic biology, cell therapy and assistedliving. We’re researching the rolestandardization can play in the rapidlydeveloping sphere of offshore renewableenergy (i.e. wind, tidal and wave power) andstandardization projects could follow. We’realso working with SynBiCite, the ImperialCollege-led Innovation and Knowledge Centrein synthetic biology, to develop a standardsstrategy to help accelerate development ofsynthetic biology. We’ve also been workingwith the Cell Therapy Catapult, a London-basedcentre of excellence for regenerative medicineestablished by the TSB in 2012 to build theUK’s position as a global leader in cell therapy.

Synthetic biology and celltherapies/regenerative medicine have beenidentified by the Rt Hon David Willetts MP,former Minister for Universities and Science, asone of the “Eight Great Technologies” the UKneeds to prioritize and in which theGovernment is to invest more than £600m.

Working with the United KingdomAccreditation Service (UKAS), in 2013 wedeveloped a handbook for governmentministers called Standards and accreditation –Tools for delivering better regulation. It explainshow standards and accreditation can helpgovernment to deliver policy through self-

regulation, earned recognition and co-regulation, in line with better regulationprinciples. The handbook was distributed fromthe Prime Minister's office to all governmentministers, with a letter that highlighted thebenefits of standards and accreditation asalternatives to regulation. The handbook canbe downloaded from our website(bsigroup.com/externalpolicy).

Reporting directly to the Prime Minister, we’realso a member of a special Champion Groupestablished to help create dementia-friendlycommunities. The Prime Minister has put hisfull weight behind efforts to tackle the UK’sworsening dementia problem, which hedescribed as a “terrible disease” and “nationalcrisis” when launching his Dementia Challengein March 2012.

The Challenge seeks to significantly improvedementia care and research through betterhealth, care and research, while creatingdementia-friendly communities. We’ll continueto work with the Prime Minister and others toseek to improve dementia care in the UK.

In 2013 we began work on a consultationproject for HS2 Ltd, the Department forTransport-owned company responsible fordeveloping and promoting the planned high-speed rail network that will link London, theMidlands and the north of England.

The project aims to find ways to better manageand improve infrastructure design codes andstandards to improve efficiency and make costsavings. Our initial research has focused onthree areas – civil engineering, buildings andrailway systems. We’re working with expert onour committees to revise or remedy codesdeemed obsolete, inefficient or duplicate. Workwill begin on a publicly available specificationthat will guide designers efficiently through thevarious design codes, standards and availablemethods for use on the HS2 project.

3.2 CEN, CENELEC and ETSIWe’ve been participating in a CEN andCENELEC project called Bridging the gapbetween standards and research (or ‘BRIDGIT’).Part of this has involved leading training forfellow CEN/CENELEC members to equip allstandards bodies across the system with theknowledge of how to approach their ownresearch communities. Further aims of theBRIDGIT project include producing materialsthat will enable researchers to betterunderstand standardization, particularly asstandards are mentioned as possible researchdissemination mechanisms in the Horizon2020 EU R&D funding calls.


As Vice President (Policy) of CEN, BSI Directorof Standards Dr Scott Steedman led theEuropean Commission High-Level Group onbusiness services, seeking to makerecommendations on completing the EuropeanSingle Market for services.

CEN will now have a smaller administrativeboard and its constitution was passed inNovember 2013. The new arrangement has 12members (previously all 34 CEN memberbodies could send up to two delegates), agreedby an election process each year. Dr Steedmanwill continue as Vice President (Policy) in thenew structure.

European Standards Strategy 2020: wecontinue to advocate closer working betweenCEN and CENELEC, and the two organizationshave agreed to an aligned implementationplan.

We chaired a meeting where CEN andCENELEC members and European stakeholdergroups discussed new initiatives to improveaccess for SMEs and societal stakeholderorganizations to standardization and make thesystem more accessible to all.

The European Standards Organizations (ESOs)and the US National Standards Body (ANSI)have continued to discuss how agreements onstandards can be used to promote tradebetween the US and EU.

We provided the first set of annual reportingunder standardization regulation 1025/2012.Reports on transparency, ICT use, consumers,environmental groups, unions and SMEs weresubmitted to CEN/CENELEC, which then gave aconsolidated report to the EuropeanCommission with results from all NSBs.

We developed a new telecommunicationsstandards website to facilitate the publicationof European Telecommunications StandardsInstitute (ETSI) standards and gave apresentation about this at the organization’sgeneral assembly.

We hosted the annual meeting of the UK,French and German governments, standardsbodies and accreditation bodies with theEuropean Commission in Cambridge (5-7 June2013). The theme was the role that standardscan play to supporting research. EC DGResearch participated for the first time and theInstitute for Manufacturing hosted a workshopcomparing the different approaches tostandards and innovation in the three countries.During the meeting, we hosted a dinner atJesus College attended by Professor Sir JohnO’Reilly (Director General of Knowledge andInnovation at BIS) and other senior figures.


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Reporting directly to the Prime Minister,we’re a member of a special Champion Group established to help create dementia-friendly communities.

3.3 ISO, IEC and other international issuesBSI Director of Standards, Dr Scott Steedman,travelled to China as part of the PrimeMinister’s trade delegation and signed anagreement that will open the door for businessand industry to put forward British andEuropean standards for potential recognition oradoption by China.

Following the signing of this historic agreementbetween the UK and China on standards, wereceived numerous recommendations of BritishStandards for adoption in China. The purposeof this recognition will be to promote UK tradein China.

The new Administrator of the StandardsAdministration of China (SAC), Dr Tian, visitedBSI in March. BSI and SAC have signed a newcooperation agreement to reflect new interests,replacing the old one, which was signed tenyears ago.

We’ve joined the Pan-American Standardsbody, COPANT, as an adherent member. Thisgives us access to the annual meeting. We willalso make a keynote speech at the GeneralAssembly of ARSO, the regional standards bodyfor Africa. The assembly is the biggest

gathering of standards bodies on the Africancontinent and will provide opportunities for BSIto meet NSBs from across Africa.

As the UK member of ISO, we participated in aconference organized by UNECE (the UnitedNations Economic Commission for Europe) onStandards and Regulations, and presentedviews on the strengths of voluntary standardssupporting regulation.

We addressed an audience of 600 seniorpoliticians, including 20 heads of state andbusiness leaders from Africa and Asia, at theSmart Partnership Dialogue in Tanzania in June2013. Key messages about the role standardscan play as knowledge for socio-economictransformation were debated for an hour withheads of state. We also led sessions onstandards and new technologies and standardsand regulations. We’ve worked with theorganizers (Commonwealth Partnership forTechnology Management) for some threeyears, but this is the first time that standardshave been on their global dialogue agenda.

We provide a Co-Chair for the ConsumerParticipation & Training Working Group of theISO Consumer Policy Committee (COPOLCO).Members of our Consumer & Public InterestNetwork lead on nanotechnology, symbols andpersonal data. We’re also leading a societalstakeholders group, looking at the needs ofother stakeholders with regard to the Europeanstandardization system.

In October 2013 we supported the InternationalFederation of Standards Users conference inLondon. BIS funding from 2012/2013 ensuredfree attendance for ten UK small businesses.High quality presentations, discussions andworkshops helped to earn very positivefeedback for the event.

3.4 UK engagementOur Standards Forum, which was free toattend, took place in November 2013 andattracted 280 delegates (twice as many asusual). Speakers covered consumerinvolvement in standardization, the userperspective, the Technology Strategy Boardand the Construction Products Directive (CPD)becoming a regulation.


In April 2013 we organized a standardssymposium at the Institute of Ergonomics andHuman Factors annual conference inCambridge. A plenary lecture from Dr ScottSteedman started the morning and was followedby five speakers on the use of ergonomics andstandards in their work (e.g. medical devices,banking and the nuclear sector).

BSI and the United Kingdom AccreditationService (UKAS) held a joint reception at theHouse of Lords in June 2013 that was attendedby some 120 civil servants and BSI/UKAS staff.It provided a great networking opportunity, aswell the chance to explain how standards canhelp deliver government policy.

We continued extensive engagement with BISon the Industrial Strategy and the Eight GreatTechnologies initiative and have been buildingcontact with officials leading the variousstrands of work.

We’ve also continued to place importance onour participation in the InnovationInfrastructure group of organizations, whichfocuses on how a more strategic approach tostandards, accreditation, patents, metrologyand other innovation support structures candeliver benefits to the UK.

3.5 EducationOur Education Development Manager andothers continue to promote standardization inUK seats of learning. Recently he has manageda BIS Priority Areas for Standardization-fundedresearch project benchmarking the teaching ofstandardization in UK higher education, as wellas gathering important feedback fromstudents, academic staff and employers (seelist of Priority Areas projects, section 2.5). In partnership with other European standardsbodies we’ve set up a project group to createeducation content that will be shared. Our

initial contribution will be case studies thatshed light on good practice examples ofstandardization education in the UK.

We’ve also established a network to enable ourpeople to deliver standards-themed lectures atUK universities and colleges and feedback hasbeen extremely positive. We’ve been deliveringlectures on BS 8888 to design students at DeMontfort University in Leicester for three years.The standard brings together internationalstandards that govern preparation of technicalproduct specifications.

“The lectures have been enjoyable and highlyinformative. Students have learned a lot – evenknowing they can search the BSI website forinformation about standards is very useful,”comments Dr Eujin Pei, Senior Lecturer inProduct and Furniture Design at De MontfortUniversity. “In 2013 we invited students andstaff from other departments. The lectureshave been very well received.”

In 2013 we provided material that wasintegrated in to the MSc Management(International Standards) course at SwanseaUniversity. We’ve already worked withMiddlesex University, the University ofManchester, De Montfort University, KingstonUniversity and Birmingham City University.We’d like more UK academic staff to join ourEducation Stakeholders Group and work with


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We continued extensive engagement with BIS on the Industrial Strategy and the Eight Great Technologies initiative and have beenbuilding contact with officials leading the various strands of work.

us to benefit students, academic institutions,standardization and the UK economy.

We’re assisting in the restructuring of theCEN/CENELEC Joint Working Group onEducation about Standardization, to create aproject-based group that will be betterprepared to meet its objectives. And we’recontinuing to work on the steering committeeof an EU-funded NEN (Dutch standards body)-led project to build an SME-focused e-learningplatform for standardization.

3.6 International projectsOur International Projects team coordinatestechnical assistance and provides support forquality infrastructures in developing countries.Its role is to design, manage and implementprojects to strengthen quality institutionsworldwide.

While helping to improve fundamental marketinfrastructures throughout the world, projectsalso enhance the UK’s influence worldwide.The improved infrastructures that result areoften in fast-growing regions and our workhelps to make markets more accessible andopen to trade with the UK.

Below are some highlights of work carried outmore recently by our International Projectsteam (a full project list is provided in Appendix5.3).

We worked with the National AccreditationAgency of Ukraine (NAAU) on a two-year‘twinning’ project that ended in October 2013.Twinning projects bring together public bodiesand institutions in the EU and beyond to sharebest practice to enable reform. A key objectivewas to secure greater international recognitionfor NAAU’s accreditation services and betteralign them with international standards.

Information and document managementsystems were improved, which will enhanceNAAU’s efficiency, while strengthening itscapacity to accredit conformity assessmentbodies for products falling under the EU NewApproach Directives.

In 2013, work started on the Lebanon twinningproject, which ended in summer 2014. Theobjective was to increase competitiveness ofLebanese products in international marketsthrough conformity with internationalstandards, while better protecting the healthand safety of Lebanese consumers.

Our work included: producing gap analyses,marketing and action plans; reviewing existinglegislation and technical regulations; training;developing quality manuals and procedures;technical support to laboratories; facilitatingstandards development and updating technicalcommittee structures; and awareness raising.We’ve passed the midpoint of a five-yearproject working for the Chinese Government tosupport reform in line with the country’ssustainable development objectives. A key goalis to improve China’s framework for developingnew and revising existing technical regulations,standards, conformity assessment, marketsurveillance and accreditation systems.


The improved infrastructures that result are often in fast-growing regions and our work helps to make markets more accessibleand open to trade with the UK.

By 2020 China aims to become an “innovativesociety”, which is why its government hasprioritized development of the nation’s productquality infrastructure to meet internationalstandards.

In May 2013, we began work on a new EC-funded project for India’s Ministry ofCommerce and Industry. It supports theCapacity Building Initiative for TradeDevelopment, which seeks to strengthenIndia’s capacity to achieve economic growth,sustainable development and reduce povertythrough better integration into global trade byincreasing product safety and quality, reducingcosts and impediments to trade.

In particular, the project aims to improve foodsafety and increase government agencies’capacity for export certification, testing,accreditation, conformity assessment, riskmanagement and safety/quality standardsenforcement throughout the food export valuechain. It also aims to improve technicalregulations and standardization.

3.7 Committee member trainingWe deliver training courses for all those directlyinvolved in the standards-making process. Thecourses cover a broad range of technical andinterpersonal subjects that aid committeemembers, both new and established, inundertaking their roles and they are free tosuch experts.


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4.1 Smart Cities initiativeThe Smart Cities of the future will use datacapture and communication managementtechnologies to deliver high quality services tocitizens. Smart approaches to transport,utilities and waste management couldtransform the efficiency and sustainability ofurban communities, significantly reducingservice provision costs and carbon emissions.

With funding from the BIS Services Unit, wecontinue to work with stakeholders to developSmart City standards. Our Smart Cities Initiativeseeks to explain the role standards can play inaccelerating the implementation of SmartCities and develop a programme of standardsto assure citizens that risks are being managedappropriately. Specific projects include:

Terminology: establishing a commonterminology for Smart Cities to promote ashared understanding of concepts. PAS 180Smart Cities – Vocabulary was published inFebruary 2014.

Smart City governance: providing a decision-making framework for Smart City leaders andsetting out how to deliver a Smart City project.PAS 181 Smart City framework - Guide toestablishing strategies for smart cities andcommunities was published in February 2014.

Economic assessment and funding of SmartCity initiatives: A scoping workshop was heldin October 2013 to set out principles for theeconomic assessment and funding of SmartCity initiatives. Potential business models werecovered, as was procurement. Numerous areaswere identified for future standardization work.

Interoperability: To aid sharing of data betweendifferent agencies within a city, PAS 182 SmartCity Data Concept Model is in progress, withpublication planned for September 2014. Anonline tool for the PAS (Publicly AvailableSpecification) is also being developed.

Mapping the Smart City landscape: Oneelement of the programme involves mappingthe current Smart City landscape acrossdifferent standards bodies internationally andsharing best practice. A report published inFebruary 2014 will influence international workin this area at CEN/CENELEC and IEC forums.CEN/CENELEC and IEC activities have beensupported further with UK input atinternational meetings in January and February2014.

Leading internationally: We’re contributing toISO standards on sustainable communitydevelopment, global city indicators andinfrastructure metrics.

Promotion of current activities: A BSI SmartCities website has been created(http://www.bsigroup.com/en-gb/smart-cities/) as has a promotional document – TheRole of Standards in Smart Cities – which isavailable on the website. An awareness-raisingevent for PAS 181 and PAS 180 was held on 26February 2014.

Smart City planning guidelines: PD 8101,scheduled for publication in October 2014, willcontain Smart City planning guidelines toexplain how major new residential, retail andbusiness developments can support the widerplans of a city in becoming smarter.

Smart City Overview:Scheduled for publication in November 2014,PD 8100 will give an overview description of aSmart City, to provide the basis forcommunicating the benefits of Smart Cities tokey decision-makers.

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We’re contributing to internationalstandards on sustainablecommunity development,global city indicators andinfrastructure metrics.

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RoadsSmart traffic systems will better

regulate traffic flow. There will be lesscongestion and real-time traffic jamwarnings will enable drivers to takealternative routes.

VehiclesHydrogen will power public buses,

while on-street recharging points willsupport electric cars. Self-driving cars will beable to locate available parking spaces.

TransportSoft transport options such as

walking and cycling will be favoured. Publictransport will be better integrated, ultra-efficient and sustainable. Passengers will beable to use their smartphones to pay fortravel.

BuildingsStructures will be built to rigorous

environmental standards and they will besuper energy efficient, with carbon dioxideemissions minimized.

Street lightsDynamically operated city lights will

significantly reduce energy consumed.

HomesIt will be possible to operate air

conditioning, heating, lighting andappliances remotely by mobile phone. Greenmeters will track daily energy consumption,enabling better control. Solid waste will beremoved by a pipe network.

RubbishSmart bins on public streets will

automatically notify waste removal serviceproviders when they are full.

WaterWater consumption will be

significantly more efficient. Grey water (i.e.waste from wash basins, showers andbaths) will be recycled. Municipal authoritieswill be able to detect water leaks morequickly and easily.

ElectricityConsumer behavior data will be used

by the grid to maximize the efficiency,reliability and sustainability of electricityproduction and distribution.

ShoppingConsumers will be able to use their

smartphones to pay at shops, restaurants,cafés, etc. Information about special offerswill be revealed by pointing smartphones atshops.

HealthHealth-related services and

information will be delivered via telecomtechnologies. Data about people’s healthwill be generated by wireless sensorslocated in their homes.

WifiHigh-speed internet will be available

in public places throughout the smart city.Public displays will communicateinformation about the weather, traffic,transport, health, tourism andentertainment.

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4.2 Developing Standards inEmerging Technologies

In his 2012 report, No stone unturned: in pursuitof growth, former Deputy Prime Minister LordHeseltine recommended that BSI, theTechnology Strategy Board (TSB) and ResearchCouncils UK work together to ensure that newstandards are created earlier in thedevelopment of new technologies.

Standards play an important role in drivinginnovation and are seen as a useful alternativeto regulation or legislation. Lord Heseltine wasparticularly keen to see if the UK could gainfirst-mover advantage by developing standardsin new or emerging technology areas. To thisend, work commenced in July 2013 to fostercollaboration between BSI and the TSB toaccelerate development of emergingtechnologies in four key areas – syntheticbiology, cell therapies, offshore renewableenergy (ORE) and assisted living.

Synthetic biology refers to the design andconstruction of biological parts, devices andsystems. Cell therapies/regenerative medicinerefers to replacing or regenerating human cells,tissues or organs to restore or establish normalfunction. A key challenge is to establish howstandards can encourage innovation andadvancement in both.

In partnership with and with funding from theTSB, we’ve been working with SynBiCite (anInnovation and Knowledge Centre based atImperial College London) to develop a strategyfor standards in synthetic biology to helpcreate a digital biomanufacturing industry andaccelerate the rate of commercial successusing the technology.

We’ve also been working with the Cell TherapyCatapult, a London-based centre of excellencefor regenerative medicine that was establishedby TSB in 2012. It was created to bolster theUK’s position as a global leader in thedevelopment, delivery and commercializationof cell therapies.

The UK is already an ORE world leader, but tomaximize the benefits of technologicaldevelopment pioneered here and fuel rapidmarket growth, knowledge must be codified.We’re working with the ORE Catapult Centreand Carbon Trust to identify priority areas forstandards development, mapping existingstandards, consulting with industry experts onpriority areas for future standardization anddeveloping pilot codes of practice.

With people generally living longer, majorchanges to how long-term care is delivered arenecessary and solutions will need to be foundto enable older people to live as independentlyas possible. Standards are key to thedeployment of assisted living technologies.

With other partners, we’re participating in theTSB Long Term Care Revolution project,working to identify how standards can supportnew healthcare provision, ensuring that the UKtakes a leading role in revolutionizing careprovision. Standards development towards thisend is gathering pace.



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4.3 Support and commissioning from other HMG bodiesBelow is a list of projects we carried out during the year for other government bodies.

Government department Work Status

BIS Retail, Services & Construction Unit PAS 91 Construction related procurement – Prequalification Completedquestionnaires - revision

BIS Services Policy Unit PAS 180 Smart Cities - Vocabulary Completed

BIS Services Policy Unit PAS 181 Specification for a decision-making framework for establishing Completeda Smart City d

BIS Services Policy Unit PAS 182 Smart City concept model – Guide Open

BIS Services Policy Unit PD 8100 Smart Cities Overview Open

BIS Services Policy Unit PD 8101 Smart Cities Planning Guidelines Open

Centre for the Protection of National IWA Vehicle security barriers CompletedInfrastructure (CPNI)

Centre for the Protection of National PAS 68 Impact test specifications for vehicle security barriers - revision CompletedInfrastructure (CPNI)

Centre for the Protection of National PAS 69 Guidelines for the specification and installation of vehicle security CompletedInfrastructure (CPNI) barriers - revision

Centre for the Protection of National PAS 170 Low energy impact test method for vehicle security barriers OpenInfrastructure (CPNI)

Centre for the Protection of National PAS 300 Civilian armoured vehicles – Test method OpenInfrastructure (CPNI)

Department of Culture, Media and PAS 2017 Next generation access in business premises – Guide CompletedSport (DCMS)



Department of Energy and Climate PAS 2030 Edition 2 Improving the energy efficiency of existing buildings CompletedChange (DECC) – Specification for installation process, process management and service

provision - revision

Department of Energy and Climate PAS 51215 Specification for the competency of energy assessors OpenChange (DECC)

Department for Environment, Food PAS 44 Official identification for cattle – Specification Open& Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

Department for Environment, Food PAS 66 Official identification ear tags for sheep and goats− Specification Open& Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

Department for Environment, Food PAS 96 Guide to the deterrence, detection and defeat of ideologically Open& Rural Affairs (DEFRA) motivated and other forms of malicious attack on food and drink and

their supply arrangements - revision

Department of Health (DH) PAS 5748 Specification for the planning, application and measurement Openof cleanliness services in hospitals - revision

Environment Agency PAS 1188 Flood protection products - revision Open

Environment Agency Fund BSI to run the secretariat of ISO/TC113/SC2 'Hydrometry - Notches, Openweirs and flumes'

European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) Fund BSI to run the secretariat of IEC/TC114 'Wave Energy' (new agreement Openfor July 2013 – July 2016)

Greater London Authority (GLA) PAS 2070 Specification for the assessment of greenhouse gas emissions Completedof a city – Direct plus supply chain, and consumption-based methodologies

Home Office Science – Centre for Applied PAS 127 Non-aviation security screening guidance CompletedScience and Technology (CAST)


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HS2 Ltd Guide to application of design standards for High Speed 2 - Phase 1: CompletedMobilization

Identity & Passport Service (now renamed Biometrics: Monitor & support progress of the JTC1 SC37 XML projects Completedas HM Passport Office) & projects for the use of mobile biometrics for personalization

and authentication

Technology Strategy Board (TSB) Developing Standards in Emerging Technologies - two year programme Open

Technology Strategy Board (TSB) PAS 157 Raw materials selection in the design of human cell therapy manufacturing processes - Guide (first PAS output of above programme) Open


High Speed TwoWe’ve been working with High Speed Two Ltd (HS2), the company formed by the Governmentto develop the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham and the north of England.

We’re working on a consultation project that is part of HS2’s Efficiency Challenge Programme.It seeks to enable better management of infrastructure design codes and standards to deliverefficiency and cost savings. Several new standards have been proposed, which industrybelieves will streamline design practices and lead to better use of existing design standards.Our initial research was focused on three areas: civil engineering, buildings and railwaysystems. Input came from designers, consultants and contractors from industry andprofessional bodies. We’re working with our expert committees to revise or remedy codesconsidered obsolete, inefficient or duplicate. A Publicly Available Specification (PAS) is plannedthat will guide designers efficiently through the various design codes, standards and availablemethods for use on the HS2 project.

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Appendix 5.1 Committees supported by Standards Development funding The table below lists non-commercially viable committees that were identified for funding in 2013/14. The work of these committees falls underthe criteria for Standards Development funding.

Built Environment Design CB/10 Design Advisory Committee Innovation 1 0Built Environment Design CB/501 Flood risk & watercourses Sustainability 2 1Chemicals CII/47 Pyrotechnic articles Consumer protection 55 8Chemicals STI/10 Test methods for paints UK competitiveness 166 25Chemicals STI/40 Thermal spraying and thermally sprayed Procurement 40 16

coatingsConstruction B/506 Chimneys Regulation /Legislation 38 9Construction B/512 Ladders Safety 9 4Construction B/519 Masonry and associated testing Infrastructure 70 14Construction B/520 Glass and glazing in building Safety 93 33Construction B/524 Precast concrete products Infrastructure 48 1Construction B/542 Roofing and cladding products for Safety 46 8

discontinuous layingConstruction B/553 Geotextiles and geomembranes Procurement 73 35Construction B/555 Construction design, modelling and Innovation 32 8

data exchangeConstruction B/557 Construction products - Assessment of Regulation /Legislation 8 11

dangerous substancesConstruction B/558 Sustainability of construction works Sustainability 12 6Construction B/564 Noise control on building sites Safety 3 1Construction CB/- Construction & Built Environment Innovation 1 0

Sector Policy and Strategy CommitteeConstruction CB/101 Service Life Planning Procurement 38 4Construction CB/30 Construction Products Advisory Committee Regulation /Legislation 0 0Construction CB/506 Water reuse Sustainability 4 4Construction FMW/1 Facilities management Procurement 11 3Construction MHE/6 Hoists of builders' type Safety 5 0Construction RHE/2 Ventilation for buildings, heating and Sustainability 64 34

hot water servicesConsumer Goods CPL/116 Safety of motor-operated electric tools Safety 60 22Consumer Goods CPL/59 Performance of household electrical Consumer protection 61 32

appliancesConsumer Goods CPL/72 Electrical control devices for household Consumer protection 24 10

equipment and appliancesConsumer Goods CPW/172 Optics and Photonics UK competitiveness 176 43Consumer Goods CW/217 Cosmetics Consumer Protection 26 7

Technical Managed Active committee Main BIS portfolio of standards

Subject area reference Committee title priority standards projects

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Consumer Goods PAI/43 Graphic technology Productivity 87 26Consumer Goods PKW/0 Packaging Regulation /Legislation 368 35Consumer Goods STI/53 Specifications and test methods for Consumer Protection 45 18

jewellery and horologyElectrical Machinery PEL/2 Rotating electrical machinery UK competitiveness 48 13& ComponentsElectronics EPL/46 Cables, wires and waveguides, radio UK competitiveness 230 60

communication and signallingElectronics EPL/501 Electronic assembly technology & UK competitiveness 152 28

Printed ElectronicsEnergy GEL/105 Fuel cell technologies Innovation 13 6Energy GEL/111 Electrotechnical environment committee Sustainability 18 9Energy GEL/8 Systems Aspects for Electrical Energy Supply Infrastructure 11 4Energy GEL/82 Photovoltaic Energy Systems Innovation 54 33Energy GSE/25 Gas Meters Infrastructure 10 3Energy L/13 Smart Grid policy Infrastructure 0 1Energy PEL/114 Marine energy - Wave, tidal and other Sustainability 2 3

water current convertersEnergy PEL/88 Wind turbines Sustainability 22 9Energy PEL/894 Remote Meter Reading Innovation 7 5Energy PTI/2 Liquid Fuels Innovation 21 7Energy PTI/20 Sustainability of bioenergy Sustainability 4 2Energy SEM/1 Energy Management Sustainability 10 17Environment/CSR CPI/113 Hydrometry UK competitiveness 58 17Environment/CSR CPI/30 Measurement of fluid flow in closed conduits Infrastructure 62 13Environment/CSR EH/3 Water quality Better regulation 285 56Environment/CSR EH/4 Soil quality Sustainability 122 40Environment/CSR EH/5 Sludge characterization Regulation /Legislation 31 3Environment/CSR EH/6 Effects of materials on water quality Regulation /Legislation 27 14Environment/CSR EPL/29 Electroacoustics Regulation /Legislation 57 14Environment/CSR H/-/4 Environmental testing programmes Regulation /Legislation 13 0Environment/CSR RHE/25 Solar Heating Sustainability 16 8Environment/CSR SDS/1 Sustainable development Co-ordination Sustainability 10 5

CommitteeFire FSH/0 Strategic Policy Group for Fire Safety 0 0

StandardizationFire FSH/16 Hazards to life from fire Safety 16 3Fire FSH/17 Fire brigade equipment Procurement 41 8Fire FSH/18 Fixed fire fighting systems Safety 65 20Fire FSH/21 Reaction to fire tests Safety 45 15Fire FSH/22 Fire resistance tests Safety 85 33Fire FSH/24 Fire safety engineering Safety 28 13Fire FSH/25 Smoke, heat control systems and components Safety 18 9Fire FSH/9 Fire terminology Safety 3 1Fire GEL/89 Fire hazard testing Safety 31 14Health & Safety FSM/1 Forensic Science Processes Regulation /Legislation 0 1Health & Safety PH/2 Eye protection Safety 25 4Health & Safety PH/3 Protective clothing Safety 157 43Health & Safety PH/4 Respiratory protection Safety 75 17




Health & Safety PH/6 Head protection Safety 31 6Health & Safety PH/7 Hearing protectors Procurement 12 1Health & Safety PH/8 Graphical symbols Safety 21 11Health & Safety PH/9 Applied ergonomics Safety 123 19Healthcare CH/100 Healthcare and medical equipment Safety 7 21

(European and International)Healthcare CH/106 Dentistry Consumer Protection 164 52Healthcare CH/121 Anaesthetic and respiratory equipment Safety 85 39Healthcare CH/150 Implants for surgery Procurement 139 37Healthcare CH/157 Mechanical contraceptives Consumer Protection 17 8Healthcare CH/172 Ophthalmic optics Safety 94 28Healthcare CH/173 Assistive products for persons with disability Innovation 55 17Healthcare CH/205 Non-active medical devices Safety 27 9Healthcare CH/239 Rescue systems Procurement 11 5Healthcare EPL/87 Ultrasonics Safety 27 3Healthcare RGM/1 Regenerative medicine Innovation 1 0ICT AMT/-/2 Robots and robotic devices Innovation 5 7ICT AMT/4 Industrial data and manufacturing interfaces Procurement 49 15ICT EPL/278 Intelligent transport systems Infrastructure 218 83ICT GEL/86 Fibre optics Infrastructure 584 144ICT ICT/- Information and communications technology Productivity 2 0

co-ordination and strategy committeeICT ICT/-/1 Information systems co-ordination Infrastructure 267 34ICT ICT/-/6 ICT Accessibility Co-ordination Consumer Protection 7 22ICT IST/31 Computer graphics, image processing and Innovation 38 1

environmental data representationICT IST/34 Automatic identification and data Innovation 109 53

capture techniquesICT IST/37 Coding of picture, audio, multimedia and UK competitiveness 43 35

hypermedia informationICT IST/38 Distributed application platforms and Productivity 0 5

services (DAPS)ICT IST/43 Information technology for learning, Productivity 27 25

education and trainingICT IST/44 Biometrics Innovation 66 52ICT IST/46 Sustainability for, and by IT Better regulation 0 5ICT IST/6 Data communications Productivity 201 27ICT IST/70 Sensor Networks Innovation 6 2Infrastructure CB/50 Infrastructure Infrastructure 0 0Materials MI/2 Bio-based products Innovation 0 6Materials NTI/1 Nanotechnologies Innovation 34 30Materials PRI/10 Terminology for rubbers and plastics Procurement 15 3Materials PRI/26 Burning behaviour of plastics and rubbers Safety 25 3Materials PRI/42 Fibre reinforced thermosetting plastics UK competitiveness 195 9

and prepregsMaterials PRI/89 Plastics recycling Sustainability 9 2Materials PRI/90 Rubber and rubber products - Sustainability 1 0

Environmental aspectsMaterials TCI/100 Co-ordination of activities in textiles Consumer protection 1 2

and clothingMaterials TCI/66 Apparel and interior textiles Consumer protection 133 18



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Materials TCI/80 Chemical testing of textiles Consumer protection 57 21Mechanical Machinery GME/21 Mechanical vibration, shock and condition Safety 156 28& Components monitoringMechanical Machinery GSE/22 Safety and control devices for gas and oil Regulation /Legislation 29 8& Components burners and gas burning appliancesMechanical Machinery GSE/29 Gas-fired central heating boilers (domestic Consumer Protection 21 5& Components and non-domestic) and domestic gas-fired

water heatersMechanical Machinery GSE/36 Independent gas-fired space heaters Consumer protection 8 0 & ComponentsMechanical Machinery MCE/6 Pumps and pump testing Regulation /Legislation 45 6& ComponentsMechanical Machinery MTE/1 Machine tools Safety 146 25& ComponentsMechanical Machinery PRI/66 Rubber and plastics tubing, hoses and Safety 125 28& Components hose assembliesMechanical Machinery PVE/3 Gas containers Regulation /Legislation 118 45& ComponentsMetrology LBI/37 Particle characterization including sieving Safety 62 10Quality SS/2 Statistical Interpretation of Data Productivity 10 0Quality SS/6 Precision of test methods Regulation /Legislation 21 1Safety CW/1 Safety of child use and child care products Safety 41 4Safety CW/2 Safety of child use and child care Safety 0 0

horizontal issuesSafety SW/136 Sports, playground and other recreational Consumer protection 129 48

equipmentSecurity GW/2 Secure storage of cash, valuables and Consumer protection 10 0

data mediaSecurity SSM/1 Societal security management Innovation 9 12Services IMS/1 Innovation management Innovation 6 5Services SVS/2 Tourism services Consumer protection 20 4Services SVS/4 Postal services Regulation /Legislation 30 5Transport AUE/-/1 International work on road vehicles Safety 1 1Transport AUE/11 Braking systems Safety 26 0Transport AUE/12 Safety related to occupants Safety 19 9Transport AUE/14 Motor cycles and mopeds Safety 39 12Transport AUE/16 Electrical and electronic equipment Regulation /Legislation 153 54Transport AUE/17 Vehicle security Productivity 10 0Transport AUE/18 Tanks for the transport of dangerous goods Safety 29 10Transport AUE/20 Vehicle on-board diagnostics, repair and Safety 2 5

maintenance informationTransport AUE/3 Renovation of tyres for motor vehicles Safety 2 0Transport AUE/4 Tyres and wheels for motor vehicles Regulation /Legislation 73 21Transport AUE/7 Automobile occupant restraint systems Safety 29 13Transport GME/33 Small craft Safety 76 16Transport PEL/69 Electric vehicles Sustainability 36 21Transport SME/32 Ships and marine technology - Regulation /Legislation 206 47

Steering committeeWelding WEE/18 Gas welding and cutting appliances Safety 28 5Welding WEE/40 Health and safety in welding Safety 11 3




Appendix 5.2 Outputs of committees supported by Standards Development funding

Main BIS priority

� Better regulation

� Infrastructure

� Sustainability

� Productivity

� Procurement

� UK competitiveness

� Consumer protection

� Innovation

� Safety

� Regulation/Legislation

Appendix 5.3 Technical assistance provided to developing countries

Project title Status Funded by Description

Further development of Closed in EC The purpose is to enable international recognition of the National National Accreditation year Accreditation Agency of Ukraine in providing accreditation services Agency of Ukraine capacities in testing laboratories, calibration laboratories, management systemto European practices certification bodies, product certification bodies, and inspection bodies.

Africa, Caribbean, Pacific Closed in EC The overall objective of EDES, an ACP-EU Programme, is to contribute to Region (ACP) EDES year poverty alleviation through the integration of food products from ACPFramework Contract regions into international, and particularly European, trade flows. The

specific objective is to support the development in ACP of risk-based food safety systems for exports in line with European, international and regional standards.

The chart below shows the 939 published standards from committees with a named programme manager, by main BIS priority. In addition tothis 1,015 standards were published as a result of access to international standardization provided by the Committee Service Centre.

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Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH) Closed in EC The purpose is to further develop the capacity of the market surveillanceyear system in BiH (Market Surveillance Agency BiH and Inspectorates of

Federation of BiH, Republika Srpska and Brčko District BiH) regarding its task to guarantee the safety and compliance of technical products in accordance with EU market surveillance good practice.

Technical Assistance: Ongoing EC The aim is to develop the market for certified seeds, both at local level Programme for support in and nationally, supplying surplus of certified seeds produced in other the production of seeds of territories to cover demand in other regions while improving food basic grains for food security security. This will allow producers to buy fresh seed adapted to the in Nicaragua (PAPSSAN) conditions of their environment and at the lowest possible prices. The

project will strengthen and build the capacity of small and medium producers in the areas of production, business development and processing, marketing, provision of infrastructure equipment and accessto services. It will also provide support and equipment to cooperatives and other organizations through the financing of investments in equipment and infrastructures dedicated to the production, processing and marketing of seeds.

Technical assistance to the Ongoing Swedish The objective is to strengthen the quality infrastructure and standards quality infrastructure and International programme to improve the competitiveness of Uganda’s products, standards programme, Development processes and service delivery systems in domestic, regional and Ministry of Tourism, Trade Cooperation international markets.and Industry, Uganda Agency

Support to China’s Sustainable Ongoing EC The overall objective is to support China’s economic, trade and Trade and Investment System investment reform in line with its sustainable development path. The

purpose is to provide technical assistance to strengthen the design and implementation of trade and investment policy, legislation and regulation at central and provincial level. BSI and CEN are managing delivery of Component II: Quality Infrastructure/Technical Barriers to Trade, which aims to:1. Improve the legislative and regulatory framework for developing new and revising old technical regulations, standards, conformity assessment, market surveillance and accreditation systems while strengthening compliance to standards and regulation and 2. Build capacity to support China's quality infrastructure bodies, trade, sector and consumer associations including establishing and strengthening partnerships/cooperation with international bodies and counterparts.



INOGATE Technical Ongoing EC The INOGATE Programme is an international energy cooperation Secretariat and integrated programme between the EU and the partner countries of Armenia, programme in support of Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Baku Initiative and the Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. The overall objectiveEastern Partnership energy is to contribute to the progress of the INOGATE partner countries to objective achieve Baku Initiative and the Eastern Partnership objectives. The

programme supports a reduction in dependency on fossil fuels and imports, improvement of the security of energy supply and climate change mitigation.

Strengthening quality Ongoing TradeMark The objectives of this project are to assist the institutional development infrastructure in Rwanda East Africa (TMEA) of the Rwanda Bureau of Standards by offering strategic support, and to

raise the awareness of the private sector of standards and increase its capacity building in this area.

Twinning contract with Ongoing EC The purpose of this twinning contract is to develop and enforce nationalArmenia: harmonization market surveillance practices in line with internationally recognized best with EU standards and practices in the sector, with the aim of preparing the country for wider institution building of the international agreements concerning the free movement of goods.State Inspectorate ofProtection of Markets and Consumer Rights

Lebanon: Support to the Ongoing EC The overall objective of this twinning project is to increase the Ministry of Economy & competitiveness of Lebanese products on international markets, Trade – Quality Unit through better conformity to national and international technical

standards, and to improve the level of health and safety protection of Lebanese consumers, as well as protecting the environment.

India Lot 1: Food Safety Started in EC We’re leading this lot and contributing to the overall objective of the and SPS, Technical year Capacity Building Initiative for Trade Development (CITD) to support Regulations and India in strengthening its capacity to achieve economic growth and Standardization, and sustainable development through further integration into the global Support to Post Clearance trading system. The aim is to achieve this by increasing the safety andAudit (PCA) in Customs quality of products, and by reducing costs and impediments to trade. (2014-2017) The project addresses the need to enhance the capacity of India’s trade-

related regulatory institutions and enforcement systems to meet international standards and requirements and business needs, while supporting India’s trade-related training institutions in strengthening their capacities.


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Jordan: Capacity building Started in EC This project, led by BSI, contributes to enhancing the institutional for the Ministry of Industry year capacity of the Jordanian Ministry of Industry and Trade and Services and Trade within the (MITS) in dealing with trade and industry development in Jordan in light Framework of the EU-Jordan of the revised EU-Jordan Action Plan and is conducive to increased ENP Action Plan growth and job creation. The specific objective of the project is to

strengthen the ability of various departments in MITS to address the economic challenges of Jordan in their respective fields of competence.

Support for the development Started in EC The purpose of this twinning project is to support the State Committee of a modern system of year for Standardization, Metrology and Patents of the Republic of Azerbaijan standardization and in the development of a standardization and regulatory system that technical regulations complies with European requirements and meets requirements for in Azerbaijan implementation of the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT)

Agreement.

Support to modernization of Started in EC We’re lead partner on this EuropeAid project to assist Mongolia in Mongolia’s standardization year developing its standardization infrastructure. The specific objective is tosystem support the Mongolian government’s initiative to adopt European

principles, norms and standards relating to the free movement of goods through institutional capacity building. The project will provide technical assistance to the Mongolian authorities in modernizing and improving the Mongolian standardization system, notably through policy development, enacting legislative reform, standards setting and reinforcing the country’s market surveillance and inspection regime. Such assistance will take the form of workshops, seminars, studies, and study assignments.

Cambodia:Technical Started in EC The specific objective of this technical assistance project is to trigger assistance to the EU-RGoC year sustainable and inclusive socio-economic growth in Cambodia’s programme entitled fisheries and livestock sub-sectors, through support by government, civil 'Promotion of inclusive society and development partners in line with Programme-Based and sustainable growth in Approach principles. Results to be achieved include: capacity building inthe agricultural sector: the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on overall sector fisheries and livestock’ planning, monitoring and evaluation; review and recommendations

concerning the agricultural sector [and sub-sector] strategies and policies development; and reinforcement of the sector's policy dialogue and aid coordination platform.


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