European standards: how Europe plans to • Table.Briefings

China is challenging Europe’s decades-long supremacy in technical norms and standards, especially in emerging technologies. The EU Commission now wants to take countermeasures with a new strategy – and is taking its cue from Beijing.

Europe is still a major power when it comes to setting technical norms and standards (European standards). However, its dominance, which was founded in the industrial age, is visibly crumbling: Within the framework of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Europe has recently „been left out in the cold“ when it comes to awarding secretariats for quantum computing, augmented reality, brain-computer interfaces, and lithium, said Reinhard Buetikofer, a Green Party industrial policy expert.

European standards: how Europe plans to keep China at bay

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