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International Standards and Regional Regulations

International Standards and Regional Regulations. CONTENT. Introduction Standards versus Regulations Situation of European technical committee CEN/TC 12 Developping standards in CEN/TC 12 European Regulations Conclusion. Standards versus Regulations.

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International Standards and Regional Regulations

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  1. International Standards and Regional Regulations

  2. CONTENT • Introduction • Standards versus Regulations • Situation of Europeantechnicalcommittee CEN/TC 12 • Developping standards in CEN/TC 12 • EuropeanRegulations • Conclusion G. Trican, Neftegazstandard in St-Petersburg, Sept. 2012

  3. Standards versus Regulations • EuropeanStandards are developped, following CEN rules and principles, by achieving a CONSENSUS atEuropeanlevel, gathering expertise from the main STAKEHOLDERS, in particularmanufacturers, users and end-users. Of course, experts fromRegulators are welcome. • Use of standards isvolontary. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • Regulations are written by a givenAuthority and do not require consensus. • A Regulationismandatory. N. B. : An Authoritycandecidethat a particular standard becomesmandatory. It isthen part of the Regulations. G. Trican, Neftegazstandard in St-Petersburg, Sept. 2012

  4. SITUATION OF CEN/TC 12 • CEN/TC 12 is, in the global standardisation system, a regional « daughtercommittee » to ISO/TC 67 whichisworldwide the « mothercommittee ». In a similarfashion in Middle-East, GSO/TC 7 isanother « daughtercommittee » of ISO/TC 67. • Within CEN and CENELEC, there are a number of othertechnicalcommitteeshaving interfaces with CEN/TC 12, such as CEN/TC 282 for LNG equipment, ECISS/TC 110 for tubularproducts, CEN/TC 234 for gas infrastructure, etc. As well as manytechnicalcommitteesdealingwithgenericproducts (i.e. non specific to the oil and gasindustry) such as CEN/TC 147 dealingwith all sorts of cranes. G. Trican, Neftegazstandard in St-Petersburg, Sept. 2012

  5. CEN/TC 12 SCOPE AND GOAL • TITLE:Materials, equipment and offshore structures for petroleum, petrochemical and naturalgas industries • SCOPE: CEN/TC 12 scope isnearlyidentical to ISO/TC 67 scope, but excludeswhatiscovered by CEN/TC 234. • NOTES: a) The standardizationwithin CEN/TC 12 is to beachievedwherever possible by collaboration with ISO/TC 67. b) National adoption of each one of CEN/TC 12 standards ismandatory in each one of the 31 member countries. • MOTTO : GLOBAL STANDARDS USED LOCALLY WORLDWIDE G. Trican, Neftegazstandard in St-Petersburg, Sept. 2012

  6. CEN/TC 12 Ad-Hoc groups • AH 4 : Parallelvotingfor ISO/CEN standards • AH 6 : Environmental aspects • AH 8 : Collaboration in standardization between CEN and EASC • AH 9 : Study on harmonizing standards(established in February 2012 during last CEN/TC 12 plenary to study the feasibility of proposing standards for harmonization under open mandates, e.g. Machinery Safety Directive; Pressure Equipment Directive…) G. Trican, Neftegazstandard in St-Petersburg, Sept. 2012

  7. CEN/TC 12 WORK PROGRAM • Presently 63 Work Items in progress • Alreadypublished standards: • 136 EN ISO (Identical) publishedstandards • + 6 EN (ISO modified) standards (exclusion of gas infrastructure industries) G. Trican, Neftegazstandard in St-Petersburg, Sept. 2012

  8. DEVELOPPING STANDARDS • In accordance with the Vienna Agreement between ISO and CEN, our standards are developpedwithin ISO/TC 67 working groups, with a strongpresence of European expertsfrom the verybeginningof the project, and oftenbefore the New Work Item isproposed. • One of theseEuropean experts is the EPL (European Project Leader) workingside by sidewith the ISO Project leader. • It is important that the very initial draftincludesEuropeanviews on the subject, sothat standard workcanstart in the right direction. • Duringthisparallelwork, there are separate ballots (one at ISO level, and one at CEN level) atevery phase, to guaranteethatthereis a real consensus in bothsystems. • Following a final vote, a standard isthenready to bepublished in ISO, and adopted in Europe. G. Trican, Neftegazstandard in St-Petersburg, Sept. 2012

  9. European Project Leader (EPL) • The « EPL manual » clearlydefinesrole and responsibilities of the EPL : EnsuringthatbothEnvironmental aspects and Regulatory aspects of the project have been checked. • Making sure there are no contradictionwithany applicable Directive isthe main presenttask of an EPL. • Demonstratingthat the EN ISO projectisinfull compliancewith all the requirements of any applicable Directive has not yet been expectedfrom an EPL, but wouldbe in the future. • A specific “European Annex” can be drafted within an ISO standard to fit the needs of European stakeholders/regulators. European annex of ISO 3183 (Line Pipe) is a good example. G. Trican, Neftegazstandard in St-Petersburg, Sept. 2012

  10. European Regulations (in particular European Directives) • Following ‘recentindustryevents’, intense work has been performed by the Oil & Gasindustry, in particularwith OGP. • EuropeanRegulators (i.e. European Commission) have launched a number of actions, and in particular a Draft Mandate requesting a ‘programme of Harmonised Standards (i.e. in full compliancewith a Directive)’ has been issued in September 2011, and commented. • A revised Mandate isnow in preparation in Brussels. • For CEN/TC 12, thiscanbeuseful if thereis an added value for Safety, but itis important that the presentcoherent set of EN ISO standards givingtechnicalintegrityis not jeopardised by modifications linkedwithharmonising. • More generally, a new EuropeanRegulation on safety of offshore oil and gas prospection, exploration and production activities will have to be integrated. G. Trican, Neftegazstandard in St-Petersburg, Sept. 2012

  11. Working with Regulations • Willingness to complywithpresent and future Regulations : • EPL Manual • Commitment to Safety and Health by ensuringinteroperability of the equipment and materialsbeyondregional or local particularism. • Acknowledgingthata global industryneeds global standards : usingdifferentequipmentsfrom one region to the nextcouldincreaserisks for workers and theirenvironnment. • Recognising the commitment of CEN/TC 12 stakeholders to worktogetherwithRegulatoryauthorities and endorsing the workalreadydone for manydecades: • One wayforward : AddingwhenneededEuropean annexes to existing standards in order to demonstratecompliance to all relevant Directives requirements . G. Trican, Neftegazstandard in St-Petersburg, Sept. 2012

  12. CONCLUSION • Participation of regional experts from the main stakeholdersisparamount to the success of regional standards, and their recognition as useful documents by Regulators. • CEN/TC 12 iswilling to sharewithyouitsexperience of over more than 20 years on theseprocesses. • Nextplenary meeting of CEN/TC 12 willbeheld in Vienna (Austria) on the 7th and 8th of February, 2013. • As everyyear, a number of issues willbediscussed. Several of them are linked to recentdevelopments in ISO work, and to regulations. G. Trican, Neftegazstandard in St-Petersburg, Sept. 2012

  13. CEN/TC 12 MANY THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION Chair : gilles.trican@total.com Secretary : alice.jubeau@afnor.org G. Trican, Neftegazstandard in St-Petersburg, Sept. 2012

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