The Spanish Association for Standardization (UNE) has highlighted the strategic relevance that standardization has within the entire production chain of the electricity sector in Spain, by providing a shared technical language for the design, manufacturing, marketing, installation, and maintenance of equipment and products.
As the organization has noted in a statement, these standards set uniform criteria recognized by all market players, which ensures the safety, quality, interoperability, efficiency, and sustainability of networks and installations, while also removing obstacles to trade and fostering innovation.
Likewise, the organization has emphasized that pillars such as safety, sustainability, or cybersecurity are decisive for the sale and use of electrical equipment in an environment marked by electrification and the energy transition.
In this context, it has indicated that technical standards allow manufacturers to objectively demonstrate the performance of their equipment and protect people, animals, property, and the environment throughout the product’s life cycle, while also constituting a reliable reference for distributors, installers, engineering firms, public administrations, and end users.
In addition, UNE has highlighted the complementary relationship between technical standards and current legislation as one of the foundations of the European market, by providing legal certainty and strengthening consumer trust.
In this regard, it has stated that, while regulation sets the essential requirements that must be complied with, standards provide the specifications and testing methods necessary to demonstrate such compliance, a task that is currently supported by more than 8,000 UNE standards applied to electrical products, components, and systems.
In this ecosystem, the association acts as a meeting forum and for technical consensus thanks to the active participation of representative organizations from across the value chain such as AFME, Anfalum, FACEL, FENIE and ADIME, which lead and drive the development of standards in the various working bodies.
This work will be addressed shortly at the International Week of Electrification and Decarbonization (Matelec), to be held from 24 to 26 November and which will host on 25 the "Product Compliance Day" on the triangle between legislation, technical standards and conformity assessment.