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12 EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS

International

collaboration

Partnership

Agreements

Co-operation and collaboration are effective ways to
overcome the growing challenges of fragmentation
and establish global interoperability. Such collaboration
avoids duplication of effort and helps ensure that ETSI’s
deliverables are widely accepted and implemented. At
the close of 2024 our partnership portfolio numbered
over 100 agreements.
During the year various co-operation agreements and
Memoranda of Understand were renewed with: O-RAN
Alliance; Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers
(SCTE); Connect Europe; Trusted Connectivity Alliance
(TCA); and Eurosmart.

Coordination with ESOs and

international SDOs

Supporting the work of our technical experts at committee
level, during the year we continued to engage with our
European and international partner standards bodies,
CEN, CENELEC, ISO, IEC and ITU at governance level.

In 2024 ETSI responded to two standardization more resilient Single Market. The ETSI Director-General
requests supporting EU harmonization legislation. has selected to participate in the main Forum meetings,
Adopted in April, M/603 regards the definition of system whilst ETSI Secretariat and ETSI members have been
specification requirements for the Future Railway Mobile appointed as Sherpas and delegates for participating in
Communication System (FRMCS) in support of Directive the different HLF workstreams.
(EU) 2016/797. Adopted jointly in July with CEN/CENELEC,
M/604 considers digital product passports in support European and International
of policy on ecodesign requirements for sustainable Projects
products, and on batteries and waste batteries.
ETSI is the coordinator and lead partner of the InDiCo-
High Level Forum (HLF) Global Horizon Europe Coordinating and Support Action
project. Launched on 1 January 2024, this 3-year project
ETSI has participated in the High-Level Forum, which is aims to continue the work of the InDiCo project promoting
created to define priorities for standardization, in support EU digital policies and standards globally. The project
of EU legislation and policies and a green, digital and is geographically focused on India, China, Southeast

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