CEN/CENELEC

The pace of innovation in AI methods, architectures and tools remains exceptionally high, driven by progress in data availability, computational capacity and algorithmic development. As a result, the professional landscape surrounding AI is in constant evolution: new roles, specialisations and skill requirements emerge, while others evolve, merge or decline in relative importance. 

This CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) is intended to function as a living reference point: a common baseline that can support dialogue, alignment and comparability, while remaining open to revision as the AI field continues to mature and transform. Readers and users of this document are encouraged to interpret and apply it with this dynamic context in mind, recognising both its value as a shared framework and its limitations in a field defined by rapid and ongoing change. 

This CWA is partially based on the results of the Artificial Intelligence Skills Alliance (ARISA) project, funded under the Erasmus+ programme ‘Partnerships for Innovation; Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills’ of the European Commission.

CEN/CLC/JTC 13/WG 9  -  Horizontal cybersecurity for products with digital elements: WG9 is responsible for the development of the horizontal standards in response to the European Cyber Resilience Act Standardisation Request M/606, items 1 - 15.WG 9 supports coordination and coherence between the vertical deliverables of the CRA and the horizontal deliverables of WG9

This document describes the principles and framework for environmental impact measurement of artificial intelligence systems and services and provides guidelines for impact reduction throughout its lifecycle. It includes: - A framework for defining the environmental impact of artificial intelligence - A harmonized calculation method for assessing the environmental impact of artificial intelligence systems and services - Reporting guidelines - Best practices for reducing the environmental impact of AI systems and services throughout their lifecycle. This document is aimed at organizations developing AI systems and services and organizations using AI systems and services, but also at all actors in the value chain who are required to use AI systems and services.

prEN 40000-1-3: Cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements - Part 1-3: Vulnerability handling

These standards shall provide specifications applicable to vulnerability handling processes, covering all relevant product categories, to be put in place by manufacturers of the products with digital elements. Those processes shall at least allow to: (a) identify and document vulnerabilities and components contained in the product, including by drawing up a software bill of materials in a commonly used and machinereadable format covering at the very least the top-level dependencies of the product; (b) in relation to the risks posed to the products with digital elements, address and remediate vulnerabilities without delay, including by providing security updates; where technically feasible, new security updates shall be provided separately from functionality updates; (c) apply effective and regular tests and reviews of the security of the product with digital elements; (d) once a security update has been made available, share and publicly disclose information about fixed vulnerabilities, including a description of the vulnerabilities, information allowing users to identify the product with digital elements affected, the impacts of the vulnerabilities, their severity and clear and accessible information helping users to remediate the vulnerabilities; in duly justified cases, where manufacturers consider the security risks of publication to outweigh the security benefits, they may delay making public information regarding a fixed vulnerability until after users have been given the possibility to apply the relevant patch; (e) put in place and enforce a policy on coordinated vulnerability disclosure; (f) take measures to facilitate the sharing of information about potential vulnerabilities in their product with digital elements as well as in third party components contained in that product, including by providing a standardised contact address for the reporting of the vulnerabilities discovered in the product with digital elements; (g) provide for mechanisms to securely distribute updates for products with digital elements to ensure that vulnerabilities are fixed or mitigated in a timely manner, and, where applicable for security updates, in an automatic manner; (h) ensure that, where security updates are available to address identified security issues, they are disseminated without delay and, unless otherwise agreed between manufacturer and business user in relation to a tailor-made product with digital elements, free of charge, accompanied by advisory messages providing users with the relevant information, including on potential action to be taken.