{"id":8615,"date":"2025-04-16T13:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T11:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcs.now-gmbh.de\/organisations\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T14:29:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:29:47","slug":"organisations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rcs.now-gmbh.de\/en\/organisations\/","title":{"rendered":"Organisations"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Institutions and Organisation<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Important Institutions and the Process of Standard Development<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Which bodies and committees are involved?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Worldwide, numerous regulatory frameworks and committees are being established in connection with hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. This has led to a wide range of differing technical requirements, sometimes even for identical technologies. For the successful, safe, and efficient deployment of these technologies, it is therefore essential to harmonize regulations, directives, and standards at both national and international levels.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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INTERNATIONAL<\/p>International committees and commissions for hydrogen and fuel cell technology<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

The following international committees play a particularly important role in the development of hydrogen and fuel cell standards:<\/p>\n

ISO\/IEC technical committees:<\/p>\n

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  • ISO\/TC 197, 158, 58, 22<\/li>\n
  • IEC\/TC 105, 31<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    CEN\/CENELEC technical committees:<\/p>\n

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    • CEN-CLC\/TC 6<\/li>\n
    • CEN-CLC\/JTC 17<\/li>\n
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      NATIONAL<\/p>National committees and commissions for hydrogen and fuel cell technology<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

      The working groups of the German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (DKE) serve as Germany\u2019s \u201cmirror committees\u201d to the technical committees of IEC and CENELEC. This means that a single German committee is responsible for all national, European, and international standardization activities within a specific technical field:<\/p>\n

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        More information: DKE standardization committees<\/p>\n

        At the national level, the DIN working committee on hydrogen technologies (DIN-AA Wasserstofftechnologie) is one of the most important bodies. It functions as a mirror committee to ISO, CEN, and CENELEC and is part of the DIN Gas Technology Standards Committee (NAGas), which defines requirements in the fields of gas supply and gas use.<\/p>\n

        More information: NAGas (din.de)<\/p>\n

        Technical rulemaking is also supported by the German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water (DVGW) and the German Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (DWV).
        More information: DVGW website \u2013 Hydrogen and Energy Transition<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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        RCS PLATFORM<\/p>Coordination between various stakeholders in the field of hydrogen regulation and hydrogen standardisation<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

        The RCS platform brings together technical rule-making and standardization organizations (DIN, DKE, DVGW, VDI), federal ministries (BMWK, BMDV, BMBF, BMUV), and other relevant institutions (PTB, BAM, NOW, dena).<\/p>\n

        The goal of the platform is to connect German RCS stakeholders in order to facilitate more efficient coordination of RCS-related topics at the national, European, and international levels. A particular focus lies in strengthening Germany\u2019s influence and strategic representation within standardization committees and secretariats, especially at the European and international levels. In addition, the collaboration aims to enhance the early identification of trends and regulatory developments.<\/p>\n

        Further information is available on the DIN website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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