| Electrotechnical
Standardization in Austria - Historical
Evolution |
| 1883 |
5th March: Founding assembly of the Elektrotechnischer Verein (EVW, today: OVE) on the occasion
of the International Electrotechnical Exhibition in Vienna. |
| 1883 |
Licence decree
 |
Art. 1 commits the manufacturers of electricity production
and transmission installations to a licence granted by
the authorities of the respective Province. |
|
Art. 5 refers to the future publication of regulatives
(today: regulations). |
|
| 1887 |
The "regulative committee" in the EVW starts working on safety regulations and publishes
the draft requesting comments (today: public enquiry proceedings) |
| 1889 |
The first EVW regulations are finished and passed by the General Assembly. |
| 1901/02 |
The Imperial and Royal Governorship of Lower Austria and the
District Commission of Vienna recognize the first EVW regulations
(today: liability declaration) |
| 1906 |
Austria participates in the foundation of the International
Electrotechnical Commission IEC. |
| 1909 |
The Royal and Imperial Ministry of Public Works enacts the EVW
regulations. |
| until 1938 |
EVW 1 to 44 are in force. |
| 1946 |
The "International Commission for Conformity Certification
of Electrical Equipment" CEE is founded. |
| 1953 |
Austria adheres to the CEE. |
| 1958 |
The EC countries engage in first talks on the harmonization of electrotechnical regulations.
The CEE decides for green-yellow to mark the protective conductor. |
| 1959 |
The "Comité Européen de Coordination des
Normes Electriques dans le Marché Commun" (European
Committee for the Coordination of Electrotechnical Standards
in the Common Market - CENELCOM)
is founded. It aims at providing harmonized standards in order
to eliminate trade barriers. |
| 1960 |
Foundation
of the "Comité Européen de Coordination des
Normes Electriques" CENEL.
Aim: Analysis of IEC electrotechnical standards to determine
to what extent they are suitable for implementation in the EEC
and EFTA states. Its members are the EEC countries and on behalf
of EFTA Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland
and Great Britain. |
| 1961 |
Foundation of the Comité Européen de Normalisation CEN. It is in charge of
standardization in the non-electrotechnical field. Members are
the EEC and EFTA states. |
| 1972/73 |
CENEL
and CENELCOM join up to form the Comité Electrotechnique
de Normalisation Electrotechnique CENELEC,
which counts Austria among its members.
Initially, membership is restricted to EC and EFTA countries;
an extension to the East will be prepared later on. |
| 1973 |
The Low Voltage Directive (LVD) of the EC introduces the principle of the formulation
of general safety aims and of the general reference to standards. |
| 1979/80 |
Dr. SAILER is appointed first Austrian Vice-President of CENELEC. |
| 1985 |
The EC Commission adopts the "New
Approach to standardization". Directives in
conformity with this method define general safety aims, and
EC and EFTA confer the mandate to work out adequate standards
to CEN and CENELEC. |
| 1996 |
On 1st January, Mr. WANDA from Austria is elected President
of CENELEC. His two-year term of office is subsequently prolonged
for one year, which constitutes an exception from the rules
of procedure. |
| 1997 |
The General Assembly of CENELEC decides to admit the Czech Republic
as a full member. Another application for admission is presented
by Hungary. |
| 1998 |
IEC and CENELEC use increasingly electronic means of communication
for their standardization work, e.g. electronic voting system
via the internet and working group servers for technical bodies. |
| 1999 |
On 1st January, a new cooperation agreement between OVE and
ON comes into effect, which lays down an unequivocal work division
between the two organizations. |
| 2001-2009 |
Since the admission of new states into the EU, the national standards organizations of the following countries were added gradually as full members of CENELEC:
Malta, Hungary, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Cyprus, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia. |
| 2009 |
The OEK is certified to ISO 9001. |
| 2010 |
Publication of Standards Strategy 2010 (link) (in German) |
