The responsible ISO and CEN technical committees (TCs) have working groups (WGs) where the technical experts are cooperating to prepare new standards or revise existing standards. The technical experts are nominated by the National Standards Bodies (NSBs), the CEN/ISO members.
The background of these experts is very diverse: designers, industry, practitioners (dealing with system or building design), also researchers and members of the academic community and representatives from policy makers and regulators. So quite diverse groups that prepared the documents.
Each standard is published as draft for a public consultation period of a few months, during which period all stakeholders can give comments. Dedicated national mirror groups, organised by the NSB, collect and discuss the comments at national level and submit the result as national comments to the ISO or CEN committee.
The WG discusses all comments and prepares a final proposal.
Finally, the national mirror groups vote whether they accept or reject the final proposal.
If you count, for instance for Europe alone, for all EPB standards (covering five CEN Technical Committees), all experts including the experts in the national mirror groups, it is estimated that probably 500 persons or more around Europe reviewed the set of EPB standards that was published in 2017, gave their feedback and actively contributed to the production.
Related FAQs:
- FAQ 21090805 #faq-16176 on which stakeholders were involved <this FAQ>
- FAQ 21090835 on what services the EPB Center could provide
- FAQ 19052807 #faq-15603 on how and where to provide feed back on the EPB standards
2022-02-04