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Standardisation 29 April 2019
Use of Nickel for keys
Since Q1/2017 ARGE has been lobbying against the proposal of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to restrict the use of nickel in keys. Recently, the European Commission and ECHA decided to discontinue the preparation of a guideline which would have extended the presently existing restriction of the use of nickel. As a result, the threat…
Standardisation 11 September 2018
New Documents regarding the future of hardware standards
New draft version of ARGE’s Mission , Vision and Startegy regarding the harmonization and CE-marking of hardware products covered by mandate M 101. The document will be discussed by the members on the ARGE AGM in Rotterdam. Also you can find the “potential options” for the future of hardware standards as item to be discussed…
Standardisation 10 September 2018
ARGE makes progress in standardization
ARGE continues to be closely involved with innovatins to the European standardisation framework for building hardware. Following the resolutions agreed at ARGE’s General Meeting last September, it has been working with key decision makers at CEN and the European Commission to initiate changes to the standards process. Since September 2017 changes have been made to…
Standardisation 10 September 2018
ARGE meets 2 times with DG GROW
Since ARGE has direct access to the work of CEN/TC33/WG4, we managed to meet 2 times with the officials of DG GROW in order to discuss the future revision of mandate M101. Besides 2 other meetings of the TC we could discuss the special requirements of the construction hardware products standardization. The first meeting took…