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Partnership Agreements India
Co-operation and collaboration is the best way to achieve Following the completion in March of the second phase
alignment between our standards and those produced of the Seconded European Standardisation Expert in India
elsewhere, to avoid the duplication of effort and to ensure (SESEI) project, the project partners agreed to continue for
that our work is widely accepted and implemented. Working a third term and the expert was reappointed. He continued
in partnership also helps reduce fragmentation in to participate in workshops and other events to promote
standardisation, particularly in a world of converging European standardisation activities, particularly in strategic
technologies, and is an important means by which we areas such as smart cities, cyber security, device certification
ensure our activities keep up to date with market needs. and Network Functions Virtualisation. The SESEI was involved
Establishing partnership agreements with fora, consortia in two major policy initiatives, Digital India and Make in India,
and international and regional Standards Developing which will shape our co-operation with Indian organisations.
Organisations around the world is one of the key
mechanisms we have adopted in working with others. Our Director-General undertook a mission to India in
February 2016, during which meetings were held with
By the end of 2016, our partnership agreements portfolio several government bodies.
numbered over 100 active partnerships. During the year, we
entered into a new Co-operation Agreement with the Taiwan ETSI is the project manager for SESEI.
Association of Information and Communication Standards.
We also established Memoranda of Understanding with the China
QuEST Forum, the European co-operation for Accreditation, Now in her second year of the third phase of this project,
the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ our Seconded European Standardisation Expert for China
Association, Eurosmart, the OpenFog Consortium and the (SESEC) continued to attend events to promote the
European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications European standardisation and regulatory model and to
Administrations (CEPT) Committee for International explain European standardisation developments in specific
Telecommunication Union (ITU) Policy. sectors. Key topics include the IoT and M2M, communication
networks, cyber security and digital identity, smart cities,
and electrical and electronic products. Overall, the aim of the
SESEC project is the enhancement of the EU-China dialogue
and co-operation in the field of standardisation with a view
to assisting EU industry to do business in China.

The SESEC continued to monitor the effect of China’s
Standardisation Reform, which was expected to impact
on the substance of the EU-China co-operation on
standardisation issues, and the new ‘One Belt One Road’
initiative for standard connectivity. The SESEC also supported
us in strengthening our links with Chinese partners,
especially the China Communications Standards Association
Letters of Intent were signed with the Open Edge Computing and the China Electronics Standardisation Institute. New links
Initiative and the Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems were established with the Standardisation Administration of
Program Office of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and China and with the China ITS Industry Alliance, with a view to
Technology (NIST). organising interoperability testing for ITS standards.
We renewed our partnerships with the ITU, the GSM In addition, we attended the 7th EU-China dialogue on ICT
Association, the Telecommunications Technology policy in July. We participated in the first meeting of the
Association, CEPT’s Electronic Communications Committee, EU-China Expert Working Group on the Economic Impact
GlobalPlatform, the Near Field Communication Forum of Cybersecurity Challenges and the Digital Economy, an
and the Wireless World Research Forum. We updated initiative co-organised by EC DG Connect and the Cyber
our partnership agreements with the Home Gateway Administration of China (CAC). We also took part in the
Initiative and the Car Connectivity Consortium to allow for first meeting of the joint EU-China Working Group on the
our adoption of their specifications as part of the Publicly Digital Economy which provided an opportunity to liaise with
Available Specification (PAS) process. CAC and introduce our work, particularly in relation to the
production of global standards.

Seconded Experts in Emerging Markets
As globalisation makes our world increasingly Forapolis™ Support Services
interconnected, we continue to place special emphasis on Drawing on over two decades of ETSI experience, in 2016
bridging the gap with new players in emerging markets and Forapolis provided customised support services to three third
regions. In partnership with CEN and CENELEC, the EC and party organisations in which ETSI members are involved. One
EFTA, we have therefore appointed ‘Seconded Experts’ to of these organisations completed its work and terminated
raise the profile of European standardisation and to intensify its contract with us at the end of June. Forapolis services
co-operation on standardisation issues in key emerging are provided without any cross-subsidy from the Members’
regions. contributions.

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