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The third panel, moderated by Giovanni Collot, Account Manager for Public Relations at CEN and CENELEC, explored current best practices on #inclusiveness and suggested recommendations for action. Our speakers: 🎙Olivier Marfaing, Head of Standardisation Unit at French Ministry of Economy 🎙Nerea Ruiz Fuente, Policy Director at ECOS 🎙James Stapleton, Senior Standards Development Officer at National Standards Authority of Ireland 🎙Diederik VAN VAERENBERGH, Head of Division at Belgian FOD Economie / SPF Economie / FPS Economy/FOD Economie 🎙Ewa Zielinska, Vice-President for Policy at CENELEC 💰 Funding is a crucial factor for access, but it's not only about money! Key measures for #improvement in national standardisation include: ✅ Free or facilitated #access to technical committees for underrepresented groups 🛠️ Development and promotion of technical and educational #tools to raise #awareness and support #participation 💡 #Incentives, such as tax reductions, to encourage #involvement in the standard-making process

ECTP Conference (5-6 March 2024, Brussels) - Only 2 weeks left to benefit from early-bird fees ❗ ⌛ The early bird registration period for the ECTP Conference "ECTP @ 20. Two decades shaping a smart and green built environment" will end on 5 February. Do not miss the opportunity to benefit from the rates applicable until that date, and register at https://lnkd.in/eVuEn4ia If you are an ECTP member and haven't received the code to benefit from discounted conference fees, please contact 📧 ECTP Secretariat (secretariat@ectp.org) You can access the ECTP Conference 2024 preliminary draft programme here: https://lnkd.in/ePbhVW82 👉 Dissemination activities for EU projects An exhibition of roll-up posters will be dedicated to the dissemination of information and/or results of European projects. The available spaces will be allocated (free of charge) to registered conference attendees on a first come first served basis. Request should be sent ASAP by 31 January to secretariat@ectp.org #Built4People #NewEuropeanBauhaus #builtenvironment #NatureBasedSolutions #sustainability #hydrogen #decarbonisation #usercentric #EnergyEfficiency #digitalisation #circularity

Today, the 2nd plenary meeting of the new European standards committee - CEN/TC 473 'Circular Economy'- began at BAM’s location in the Berlin neighbourhood of Adlershof. CEN/TC 473 ‘Circular Economy’ was established in 2023 by CEN, the organisation that develops and publishes standards at a European level. The committee's goal is to strengthen the European voice within global standardization activities around circular economy set up. It will focus on developing horizontal standards related to European specific prerequisites, legislation, and policy. The plenary meeting will continue tomorrow at DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V., the German Institute for Standardization. #circulareconomy #kreislaufwirtschaft #europeanstandardscommittee #cen #centc473

National Productivity Boards (NPBs) aim to enhance policy making relating to productivity and competitiveness. While the network of NPBs is well established more than seven years after the adoption of the NPB EU recommendation, not all EU Member States have an NPB in place and there are considerable differences in NPBs’ institutional design, capacity, and involvement in policy making.   Together with Alessandro Turrini and Luis García Lombardero I assess the implementation of the NPB recommendation in this European Economy Discussion Paper. Our findings suggest that NPBs can especially benefit from stronger provisions to guarantee independence and adequate resources and from practices boosting their participation in policy making. If you like to know more, have a read here: https://lnkd.in/e8muay23

🌱 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰! On January 26, 2024, 33 members gathered at Bygholm Landbrugsskole in Horsens for a transformative General Assembly. 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: ✨ Conference & Tour Success: Celebrating achievements from conferences and study tours. 🔄 ERFA Groups Revival: Exciting plans for the relaunch of ERFA groups activities. 🎓 Webinars & Training: Elevating learning with upcoming webinars and training. 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀: 💼 Financial Changes: Unanimous approval for significant changes in revenue and personnel costs. 📊 2024 Budget: Approval of the budget for 2024 without any remarks. 💸 Membership Fees: No changes; fees remain unchanged. 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: 🤝 Board Re-Elections: Re-election of board members. 🔍 Auditor Confirmation: Partner Revision Ringkøbing re-elected as the auditor. 📈 Your active participation fuels our collective progress. Explore the detailed report here https://cutt.ly/1wC5SnHW for a closer look at decisions that will drive our community forward! #DFAGeneralAssembly #StrategicDecisions #CollectiveGrowth

This upcoming webinar may be of interest for anyone wanting to hear directly from the standard setters on degree of inter-operability between the ISSB (International Sustainability Standards Board) corporate sustainability disclosure standards and EFRAG’s (European Financial Reporting Advisory Group’s) European sustainability reporting standards (CSRD and CSDDD). Both will have significant impact in Canada / on Canadian based companies and investors. #csrd #responsibleinvestment #cssb #issb #csddd

❓Actually how ‘new’ is EFRAG’s new guidance?❓ We’ve reviewed the finalised EFRAG guidance on double materiality and value chain. What really surprised us was how little they’d changed from the December drafts. So, what three things have we learnt, and what’s still missing? ✅ Three new things we have learnt: 1. Stakeholder engagement is valuable, but isn’t the right place to start. It should be used for gap filling and validation of objective information, not as the beginning of the assessment. 2. There’s new guidance for managing materiality analysis for groups with subsidiaries operating in different markets and contexts, to help simplify evaluation and disclosure. 3. Whilst policies, actions and targets can be developed over time, metrics are mandatory from day one (even if you have to rely on big estimates). ❌ Two key areas where guidance is still lacking: 1. There’s still no further guidance on setting materiality thresholds. In our CSRD SOS paper, we heard this was one of the top frustrations for practitioners, and risks undermining CSRD’s objective for consistent disclosures. 2. There’s still no further guidance on the assurance process. This is making it difficult for practitioners (and assurance providers) to know what documentation to prepare - leading lots of companies to be wasting money and resources ‘over cooking’ their documentation. Read SB+CO’s new blog that I published with Nick Wyver to find out more. Link in comments, and please share your thoughts on the finalised guidance! #doublemateriality #csrd #efrag #sustainabilityregulation

📢 Calling all involved in the BTR sector! We need the support of the BTR sector to road test the Code of Practice. The wider the breadth of input and views on the 7 principles, how they are measured and monitored, the greater the impact of the Code. Over 30 sector-leading organisations are signed up to respond already – an organisation a day since the Code of Practice draft principles went live.   To register to help road test the principles: https://lnkd.in/d8K_CEKG ❓ What is the BTR Code of Practice? At the end of March, the ARL introduced a set of draft principles for a Code of Practice for the BTR sector to define the standards to which urban and suburban, single and multi-family BTR operates, setting the sector apart from the Buy to Let/Private Rented Sector (PRS), and communicate the culture of BTR – with Government, policymakers, local authorities and consumers. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/damSXS8p 

There’s an Irish theme to this week - with our first meeting of #RTPIIreland’s policy group, discussing the draft #NationalPlanningFramework. As you might expect for a document that runs to 190 pages there was a lot to talk about! A huge thanks to everyone for their insights - we ranged through quite a lot of topics from biomethane to landscape, tourism and housing. And, we discussed both the high level aspirations of the NPF as well as the substantive detail. We’ll put all of this into a draft response which the Irish Executive Committee will consider at its next meeting. The closing date for comments on the NPF is 12th September, the date of the RTPI Ireland’s #Annual #Conference. The first session of the day will discuss the NPF - with a speaker from the Department joining us. In Session 2 we’ll be focussing on social value in development, and the day will round off with a session covering climate action and the circular economy. Please join us for these online webinars - booking is open and free for #members. https://lnkd.in/d-n7QShB Niall Byrne MRTPI, MIPI Valerie Brennan Dean Brickland Blaine Cregan Aidan Culhane Luke Wymer RTPI Ireland Young Planners