Glossary

Here are a number of the abbreviations/acronyms frequently used in standardisation contexts, with brief explanations. The abbreviations are in alphabetical order.

CEN 
European Committee for Standardization (Comité Européen de Normalisation). Develops European standards for areas not covered by CENELEC.

CENELEC 
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (Comité Européen de Normalisation Electro-technique). Develops European standards in the electricity sector.

CWA CEN/CENELEC 
Workshop Agreement. Technical document developed by CEN- and CENELEC-organised working group.

Consolidated 
A consolidated standard incorporates its supplement and replaces previous editions.

EN 
European standard from CEN/CENELEC.

ETSI 
European Telecommunications Standards Institute. Develop European standards in the telecommunications field.

FDIS 
Final Draft International Standard. Final proposal for global standard from IEC or ISO.

ICS 
International Classification for Standards. An international classification system for standards.

IEC 
International Electrotechnical Commission. Develops global standards in the electricity sector.

ISO 
International Organization for Standardization. Develops global standards in all areas except telecommunications
and electrical technology.

ITS 
ITS Information Technology Standardisation. Develops and monitors standardisation in information technology. A Swedish member of the ETSI, European Telecommunications Standards Institute.

ITU 
International Telecommunication Union. Develops global standards in radio and telecommunications.

IWA ISO 
Workshop Agreement. Technical document developed by ISO-organised working group.

PAS 
Publicly Available Specifications. Technical IEC and ISO documents.

prEN 
Draft European standards from CEN, CENELEC or ETSI.

SEK 
SEK Svensk Elstandard. Develops and monitors standardisation in the electrotechnical sector. Swedish
member of the CENELEC and IEC.

SIS 
SIS, Swedish Standards Institute. Swedish member of CEN and ISO.

SIS-TR 
Technical Report. Technical report describing the results of investigations or other studies.

SIS-TS 
Technical Specification. Technical specification describing what requirements a product, process or
service must fulfil.

SIS-WA 
SIS Workshop Agreement. An agreement setting out rules, guidelines or criteria for activities or their results.

SIS-WS 
SIS Workshop. Standardisation project aimed at rapidly developing an SIS Workshop Agreement.

SS 
Swedish standard. Established by SIS, SEK or ITS. SS is the first step in all standard classifications to
emerge since 1 January 1978.

SS/T1 
Supplement 1 to a Swedish standard.

SS-EN 
European standard established as Swedish standard.

SS-EN/AC 
Correction to the European standard established as Swedish standard.

SS-EN/A1 
Supplement to the European standard established as Swedish standard.

SS-EN ISO 
International and European standard established as Swedish standard.

SS-EN ISO/AC 
Correction to the international and European standard established as Swedish standard.

SS-EN ISO/A1 
Supplement to the international and European standard established as Swedish standard.

SS-EN ISO/IEC 
International and European standard established as Swedish standard.

SS-IEC 
IEC standard established as Swedish standard.

SS-ISO 
ISO standard established as Swedish standard.

SS-ISO Amd 1 
ISO standard established as Swedish standard, with Amendment 1.

SS-ISO/Cor 1 
ISO standard established as Swedish standard, with Correction 1.

WD 
Working Draft. Proposed international or European standard developed by the Working Group.

WG 
Working Group. Appointed by an international committee or some other body.

WI 
Work Item. A delimited task designed to result in a standard.