What is CGF?
The main purpose of CGF is to promote the benefits of the use of International Standards in other regions of the world just like CENELEC does for the European area. If International Standards were recognized and implemented in all regions of the world, then all technical barriers to trade would practically be removed.
More specifically, CGF pursues the following objectives:
To display and promote the European Standardization system, including the benefits of reference to international IEC standards at regional/national levels. To pursue this goal, CENELEC is closely working with its sister organisations CEN and ETSI.
To encourage reference to IEC-based standards in regulation
To foster industrial cooperation for access to global markets
To promote mutual recognition of test results
CGF is monitoring and advising CENELEC CS on projects in several regions and countries such as Japan, China, Korea, South-America, USA, countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy, Russia, …
CGF is meeting every 6 months, the next meeting will take place on 13 April 2010 in Cyprus.
Chairman of the Working Group: Carlo Masetti