Dr Bernhard Thies – President-elect of CENELEC was PKN’s guest on 31st of March and 1st of April 2015. Dr Thies will officially take over the presidency in CENELEC on 1st of January 2016. PKN’s guest was welcomed by Tomasz Schweitzer – President of PKN, Mrs Jolanta Kochańska – Vice-President in charge of standardization and Ewa Zielińska – Director of Foreign Relations Department and Member of CENELEC Board. The main topic of the meeting were the future of CENELEC and activities which Dr Thies plans to undertake during his term of office.

DKE is the national organization responsible for the creation and maintenance of standards and safety specifications covering the areas of electrical engineering, electronics and information technology in Germany.

The ISO regional workshop on Marketing and Communication on International Standards was held between 8th and 10th December, 2014 in Warsaw. The event was targeted at marketing and sales officers of national standards bodies, the ISO members. The workshop was attended by representatives from the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Serbia, TRYF of Macedonia, Ukraine and Poland.