Friday, June 20, 2025. 10:30-11:30 (CEST), online
We are pleased to invite you to a joint webinar with AccessibleEU: ‘Products and services after 28 June 2025: Standards underpinning the European Accessibility Act in the light of the date of application of the Directive.’
By 28 June 2025 all products and services covered by the EAA must meet accessibility requirements. However, the timeline of the standards supporting the Directive is broader.
This AccessibleEU workshop, co-organised with ANEC, will be focused on the EAA and the standardisation works that will support its implementation. Which are those documents and when can we expect them to be ready? Most important, how will they help consumers?
The webinar will take place on Friday 20 June 2025, 10:30 - 11:30 (CEST). Captioning in English and interpretation in International Sign System will be available.
To register, please fill out the Registration form.
Webinar speakers include:
- Chiara Giovannini, Senior Manager Policy & Innovation Deputy Director-General, ANEC
- Fernando Machicado, Senior Expert of AccessibleEU on standardisation, UNE.
Webinar agenda:
10:30 Welcome and housekeeping rules.
Chiara GIOVANNINI. Senior Manager Policy & Innovation Deputy Director-General, ANEC
10:35 Consumer´s view on the EAA and its challenges.
Chiara GIOVANNINI. Senior Manager Policy & Innovation Deputy Director-General, ANEC
10:50 Questions and answers
11:00 Standardisation documents being developed to support the EAA, and its expected timeline.
Fernando Machicado, Senior Expert of AccessibleEU on standardisation, UNE
11:15 Questions and answers
11:30 End of the workshop
We look forward to your participation!
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 14:30-15:45 (CET), online
ANEC invites you to a new public webinar: How can AI standards deal with the risks to Fundamental Rights - Can we even standardise Fundamental Rights?
The EU Artificial Intelligence Act uses Harmonised Standards to provide presumption of conformity with the legal requirements for high-risks AI systems. Following a request from the European Commission, AI standards are currently being drafted on the identification and analysis of the known and the reasonably foreseeable risks that the high-risk AI system can pose to health, safety or fundamental rights (risk management systems).
Views diverge amongst the actors involved in the standardisation process about the impact of standards on Fundamental Rights and how to assess it.
ANEC, thanks to the support of the EAIS Fund and with the special participation of the European Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) will address and clarify these concepts together with our speakers:
- David Reichel, Head of Data and Digital Sector - Justice, Digital and Migration Unit (FRA)
- Katja Kolman, Project Assistant in the Data and Digital Sector - Justice, Digital and Migration Unit (FRA)
- Chiara Giovannini, Deputy-Director of ANEC and Senior Manager for Policy & Innovation.
Slides available for download here.
Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 10:30-11:45 (CET), online
ANEC are pleased to invite our members to join a webinar on the topic of Consumers navigating sustainable finance. Updates from legislation and standards. It will last for one hour 15 minutes and will be hosted by Michela Vuerich, ANEC Lead Programme Manager Sustainability & Services and Boštjan Okorn, ANEC Sustainability Working Group Chair.
Our expert speakers will share their latest insights on Sustainable Finance Policy and Standardisation, explaining to us both European and global developments. They are:
- Anna Martin, BEUC Head of Financial Services & Tom Redmond, BEUC Sustainable Finance Policy Officer
- Kęstutis Kupšys, ANEC Representative on Finance
Here you can find a link to connect & register for this Webinar REGISTER & CONNECT HERE. Please do so by 21 March at the latest.
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 10:30-11:45 (CET), online
ANEC invites you to a new public webinar on Sustainable lifestyles & Consumer products.
The webinar is inspired by this year’s theme of the World Consumer Rights Day and celebrates the transition to a sustainable consumer lifestyle.
Together we will explore:
- The Ecodesign standards and their added value for consumers with Boštjan Okorn - Chairperson of both ANEC Sustainability WG and ANEC Traffic & Mobility WG
- If refurbished products are the new way forward, with Olivia Brown - Policy Officer, Euroconsumers
- And how all this ties up into a sustainable way of living, with ANEC’s Sustainability senior experts - Michela Vuerich and Isabel Lopez.
Moderation and closing words will be done by Chiara Giovannini, Deputy-Director of ANEC.
Slides available for download here.
Friday, 6 December 2024, 10:30-11:30 (CET), online
The common charger for mobile phones and other devices will be mandatory at the end of December 2024: What can consumers expect? And what is next?
Since 2009, ANEC and the consumer movement have been lobbying for common chargers to become mandatory. Following the revision of the Radio Equipment directive, this will become soon a reality. The 'common charging' requirements will apply to all handheld mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones, headsets, portable speakers, handheld videogame consoles, e-readers, earbuds, keyboards, mice, and portable navigation systems as of 28 December 2024. These requirements will also apply to laptops as of 28 April 2026.
USB Type-C port will be the new mandatory standard for portable devices and harmonisation for wireless charging will be ensured in the future.
Join us under the moderation of Chiara Giovannini, ANEC Deputy Director General and learn more about this from Alexis Basiaux, EC Desk Officer for Low Voltage Directive and Common Charger for Mobile Devices from DG GROW H2 Machinery and Equipment.
Alexis will present the new rules on clear information and labelling for consumers which should be present on new devices with charging options. He will also explore with us whether a product must include a charger at sale or not (unbundling).
Slides available for download here.
