CEN-CENELEC noti­fi­ca­tion — accel­er­at­ing AI standardisation

CEN and CENELEC have adopt­ed an excep­tion­al pack­age of mea­sures to speed deliv­ery of key Euro­pean stan­dards sup­port­ing the AI Act, com­mit­ting to make the tech­ni­cal foun­da­tion avail­able by Q4 2026. To do so they will (a) per­mit direct pub­li­ca­tion of drafts after a pos­i­tive Enquiry vote (skip­ping a sep­a­rate For­mal Vote) and (b) set up a small expert draft­ing group to finalise six delayed drafts before wider cir­cu­la­tion. The move pre­serves inclusiveness—Enquiry remains open to nation­al mem­bers and stakeholders—and sig­nals pri­or­i­ty work­streams such as the forth­com­ing prEN 18286 on Qual­i­ty Man­age­ment Systems. 

Source: CEN/ CENELEC

Accom­pa­ny­ing this sub­ject we rec­om­mend the fol­low­ing con­tent on our website

• Guid­ance on EU MDR/ IVDR and AI Act interplay 
• Noti­fied bod­ies cau­tion about obsta­cles hin­der­ing their AI designation
• AI Act pub­lished in OJEU