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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT THE HEART OF OUR STRATEGY
Theme Commitment
Standardization With more than 100 experts actively participating in international standardization bodies, Schneider Electric is
making, in particular, a decisive contribution to the elaboration of standards that ensure the reliability of electric
installations and equipment and transparency of the work on environmental issues. In particular, it ensures the
presidencies of the French Electrotechnical Committee; it is member of CEI (International Electrotechnical
Commission), participates actively including in the roadmap for smart grids standards, and contributes to CEI
standardization for smart grids, especially in the domain of Power Utility Automation; it is member of Cenelec
(European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization) where it has the convener’s role for standardizing the
interface between smart buildings and the smart grids; it leads a group in charge of defining the set of standards
and the standardization roadmap, under the umbrella of CEN-CENELEC-ETSI Smart Energy Grid Co-ordination
Group and under the mandate of the European Commission; it is also member of de French Committee for
environmental standardization. It is member of the Council Board, the Conformity Assessment Board and the
IECEE system of CEI. It chairs several Technical Committees in ISO (International Standardization Organization).
Schneider Electric chairs many French standardization committees hosted by AFNOR (French Standards
Organization). It is particularly strongly involved in the working group on sustainable development and in the work
on the rational use of energy.
Since February2007, Schneider Electric has represented France on the IEC’s Advisory Committee for
Environmental Aspects (ACEA). The ACEA works to advise and coordinate the CEI’s efforts to tackle
environmental issues. The Group also participates in the Advisory Committee for Energy Efficiency (ACEE) created
in 2013.
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