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WE ARE STANDARDS

At ETSI we produce globally applicable technical start-ups, alongside universities, R&D organizations,
standards for ICT-enabled systems, applications and and societal interest groups.
services that are widely deployed across all sectors of
industry and society. Our standards help ensure the free movement of goods
within the European single market, allowing enterprises
Officially recognized by the European Union as a in the European Union to be more competitive. Building
European Standards Organization (ESO), our outputs on this heritage, the excellence of our work and our
include globally applicable standards for Information open approach sees ETSI’s influence extend beyond
and Communications Technologies, including fixed, Europe to the whole world.
mobile, radio, transportation, broadcast, and
Internet technologies. This Annual Report highlights just some of our
many activities and achievements during 2024.
Established in 1988 as a not-for-profit organization, More information about the work of our Technical
ETSI has 938 members drawn from 64 countries (end Committees, Industry Specification Groups, Software
2024). These include world-leading companies from Development Groups and other technical bodies can be
the manufacturing and service sectors, regulatory found online at www.etsi.org/technologies, and on the
authorities and government ministries, as well ETSI Portal at https://portal.etsi.org/.
as small/medium-sized enterprises and innovative
You’ll also discover more about our current and planned
activities in the ETSI Work Programme 2025.

DESIGNING TOMORROW’S WORLD

‘Designing tomorrow’s world’ is ETSI’s strategy that ■ Being Global
recognizes the global importance of ICT for society’s ETSI creates standards intended for global use, with a
sustainable digital transformation. Our vision is to be membership from across the world and partnerships
at the forefront of Information and Communication covering all regions and relevant sectors for ICT. We
Technology, and to lead development of standards tailor our processes to influence worldwide standards
that enable a sustainable, securely connected society. and builds on its ESO status to contribute to
To deliver this vision ETSI follows a path marked by five the European economy.
Key Strategic Directions that express the journey to
achieve our ambitions: ■ Being Versatile

■ Being at the Heart of Digital ETSI innovates in its working methods, creating
room for wide participation, rapid deployment and
As the preferred point of call for ICT related global acceptance of its standards. We work with
standardization, ETSI enables comprehensive end- developer communities and supports the creation and
to-end ICT architectures and technologies including maintenance of test suites and tools plus additional
devices, network, and cloud.
standards-related software material.
■ Being an Enabler of Standards ■ Being Inclusive

ETSI provides support and tools to enable the ETSI’s membership represents real market and societal
identification of the needs and requirements for needs, from local to global, leveraging the digitization
standards and their production and adoption. We are of business and industry, circular economy, and the
the enabler of standards in response to regulatory, sustainable development of modern society. ETSI
legislative, policy and market needs.
comprises large and small companies and research
organizations, as well as other business, consumer,
societal and environmental stakeholders.

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