🎉 ANEC turns 3⃣0⃣! We’ve spent 3 decades making sure #consumers are heard in #European #standardisation. 🟦 To celebrate this milestone, we’re honoured to share 30 Testimonials from key partners and stakeholders who have walked this journey with us. 💬 Read all 30 Testimonials: tinyurl.com/3zj2uj43 📘 Explore our Annual Review 2024–2025: tinyurl.com/3sfmx7je 👏 A heartfelt thank you to all our partners, experts and supporters for your trust, collaboration and commitment to ensuring standards work for everyone – especially consumers. #ANEC30 #ConsumerProtection #Consumers #Standardisation #ChildSafety #Accessibility #DigitalSociety #DomesticAppliances #Services #Traffic #Mobility #Sustainability

🧵Tired of fast fashion and throwaway tech? #Ecodesign is evolving to cover more products than ever - making #sustainability the norm, not the exception:🔗 tinyurl.com/yxba2rhr. #BEUC #ECOS @anectweet

Today, ANEC held a webinar on #Consumers Navigating #SustainableFinance 🌍, with expert insights on policy and #standardisation at European and global levels. Many thanks to our speakers Anna Martin and Tom Redmond from @beuc, and Kęstutis Kupšys, ANEC Representative on Finance, for their valuable contributions. The session was hosted by Michela Vuerich @mvu3, ANEC Lead Programme Manager Sustainability & Services and Boštjan Okorn, ANEC Sustainability Working Group Chair.

🗓️ We just wrapped the 20th @anectweet Services WG meeting (23–24 April, Brussels)! Two days of impactful discussion with ANEC Services WG experts and guests: 🧩Horizontal Services 🔥 Fire safety 💻Online terms & reviews 📬 Postal & financial services 🏥 Cross-border healthcare ✈️Safer tourism 💡 Services for vulnerable consumers 🏆 ANEC 30th Anniversary Working for safer, fairer services in Europe! #Consumers #EUStandards #Postalservices #FireSafety #OnlineServices Thanks to guests from: 🎓 THUAS university, 📬 @EU_Growth, ⚖️ @beuc EC DG SANTE

ANEC works to improve #Ecodesign rules and #standards for #products to be more #energy #efficient, #durable and #repairable. Raising #standards for #consumers. @Consumers_Int #JustSustainableLifestyles #WCRD #WorldConsumerRightsDay #WCRD25

ANEC organised on 11 March a webinar on sustainable lifestyles and consumer products to celebrate the World Consumer Rights Day. Details and slides available here: tinyurl.com/2ccyeu5y. Many thanks to our panelists, Bostjan Okorn @zps , Olivia Brown @euroconsumers and @mvu3 @IsaLNeira and Chiara Giovannini from @anectweet.

On #EuropeanSmokeAlarmDay, ANEC publishes its Discussion Paper “Enhancing Fire and life safety: the role of accident and injury data in creating awareness” ➡️tinyurl.com/3bmzx3vt. 📰The paper displays the findings from an ANEC internal survey on 🔥 Fire Safety Awareness at the national level and provides recommendations and useful tips on how to encourage citizens’ interest in #fire #safety for ANEC members and relevant stakeholders, such as the EU institutions; national and regional authorities and public services; other #consumer organisations and other #civil #society organisations at large.

@anectweet welcomes @Europarl_EN's vote to endorse the inter-institutional agreement on the proposal for the #Packaging and Packaging #Waste #Regulation (#PPWR). @Frederiqueries

📢Join our upcoming ANEC Webinar ‘#Safe #products for all #consumers – #EC study on #gender-responsive and #inclusive #standards’! ➡️We will be honoured to have Frauke Hoss from the European Commission (GROW.H.2) @EU_Growth to present the recent “EU 2024 Study on #inclusiveness of #anthropometrics in European harmonised #standards”, with ANEC’s Chiara Giovannini guiding you through this webinar. 🗓️Friday, 8 March 2024 ⏲️11h00 to 12h00 CET (Brussels time). 🔗tinyurl.com/m5pn38y5.

We are very pleased to announce that ANEC and the International and European Law department of The Hague University of Applied Sciences (#THUAS) have concluded a Memorandum of Understanding to formalise their collaboration. Signed by ANEC Director-General @BrusselsRussell and Team LAW’s Program Director Clair Moore, the cooperation signifies the two institutions’ dedication to shape excellent and adaptable legal professionals who embrace today’s and tomorrow’s legal challenges and opportunities. It is also a concrete step in ANEC's implementation of the Pledge to promote education & skills on standardisation that was signed by members of the High-Level Forum on #Standardisation in November 2023, including by @AnecPresident, Dermott Jewell. Raising #standards for #consumers.

ANEC supports the joint #KeepEUFireSafe🏘️🔥campaign. In support of the EU Manifesto📜 'Keeping EU citizens fire safe in all buildings', ANEC Director-General says: “Prioritizing the collection of accurate and up-to-date EU fire statistics is essential to bolster effective prevention and consumer protection in all buildings.” 📢 Read & endorse our EU Manifesto here➡️keepeufiresafe.org.

ANEC is bringing the voice of #consumers to the joint #KeepEUFireSafe 🚒 campaign. Together we call on the European Union to develop a #Fire #Safety #Strategy to support Member States, coordinate and supplement their actions for the fire safety of #European citizens in all buildings. 🔎Read the joint EU Manifesto on 'Keeping EU citizens fire safe in all buildings' supported by ANEC: tinyurl.com/5x49x826; as well as an accompanying quote 📢 from our Director-General, Stephen Russell 👇 @EuroFSA @EUElecSafety @FireSafeEU @ModernBuildEU @Euralarm @RICSnews @SFPE_Inc @europacable @BSEF @EAPFP1