What is NEN Connect?
is an online database of the Dutch Standardization Institute and the NEC Foundation; and provides access to:
- All Dutch standards (NEN, NPR, NTA, NVN, standards in draft),
- European and International standards accepted in the Netherlands (NEN-EN, NEN-EN-ISO, NEN-ISO, NEN-EN-IEC and NEN-IEC),
- International standards (ISO, IEC),
- practice guidelines.
Types of standards
The different types of agreements developed by NEN:
The most common European and global agreements:
Abbreviations in NEN Connect
CEN = the European Committee for Standardization (Comité Européen de Normalisation)
CENELEC = European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique)
ICS-code = International Classification for Standards code
IEC = International Electrotechnical Commission
ISO = International Organisation for Standardization
PGS = Dutch publication series Hazardous Substances