About CENELEC

CENELEC's National Members are the National Committees of the 27 European Union countries, United Kingdom, the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia and Türkyie plus three countries of the European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Norway and Switzerland). There is one member per country.

CENELEC members are national organizations entrusted with electrotechnical standardization, recognized both at National and European level as being able to represent all standardization interests in their country. Only one organization per country may be member of CENELEC.

It is the responsibility of the CENELEC National Members to implement European Standards as national standards. The National Committees distribute and sell the implemented European Standard and have to withdraw any conflicting national standards.

Details regarding this status are given in CEN/CENELEC Guide 22 - Guide on the organisational structure and processes for the assessment of the membership criteria of CEN and CENELEC.