Sophia Antipolis, France, 6 October 2025
Following the mission to Delhi in October 2024 by ETSI’s Director General, Mr. Jan Ellsberger, an ETSI Delegation is in India this week to engage with institutional and private partners and to take part in the India Mobile Congress 2025 in the context of the InDiCo-Global project.
Overview:
ETSI shares EU and India’s common ambition to foster open, secure, and human-centric innovation through strengthened collaboration at policy, research and technical levels.
ETSI’s longstanding involvement in India, notably through the SESEI since 2013, has allowed for the development considerable insight and access with a network of trusted institutional and private partners.
Led by ETSI on behalf of the project partners and with a team on ground at ETSI’s Liaison Office in New Delhi, SESEI provides direct insight into Indian standardisation programmes, help reduce technical barriers to trade, promote the adoption of European standards, and support the competitiveness of European businesses in India.
Through the current InDiCo-Global project, its predecessor InDiCo and the former EU-India ICT standardisation bilateral project, ETSI has enabled synergies with SESEI and boosted its impact with events and capacity building activities strengthening cooperation with Indian stakeholders.
Key achievements:
- Local Presence: SESEI expert in India; database of 3,000+ contacts, engagement with ministries, administrations, standards stakeholders and industry.
- Structural Cooperation: MoUs with BIF, COAI, and agreements with TSDSI & BIS; study visits for BIS officials in EU/EFTA, etc.
- Information Flow: Monthly Newsletters, Sectorial Reports, Thematic Webinars, Presentations on 5G/6G, AI, IoT, Smart Cities, Clean & Green Tech (more than 160 participations to EU-INDIA conferences promoting EU-India cooperation on standardisation since March 2023).
- Standards Adoption: Indian SDOs adopting ETSI standards: 3GPP, oneM2M, NFV, IoT, Energy Efficiency, ESI (Digital Signature), Accessibility standards, etc.
Key results by sectors:
| Sector | Result |
| Mobile Networks | Adoption in India of 3GPP IMT-Advanced/4G/5G specifications covering Release 13–18 implementations; Indian 5Gi aligned with 3GPP. |
| IoT & Smart Infrastructure | Adoption of oneM2M Release 2 & 3 as national standard in India. IoT reference architectures integrated into BIS standards for Smart Infrastructure. |
| Cybersecurity & Consumer IoT | ETSI EN 303 645 (Cyber Security for Consumer Internet of Things: Baseline Requirements) adopted in India as TEC Code of Practice for secure consumer IoT. ETSI NFV & IoT security standards adopted by TSDSI. |
| Accessibility for ICT products and services | ETSI EN 301 549 (Accessibility requirements for ICT products and services) adopted by BIS. |
| Digital Public Infrastructure | Alignment with European Standards and adoption 50+ ETSI standards on Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (e.g., ETSI EN 319 142 (PAdES), ETSI EN 319 122 (CAdES). |
| Energy & Clean Tech | Energy consumption rating and energy passport standard published by TEC; referred 7 energy efficiency related ETSI standards. |
| Policy & Regulatory Support | Participation in 50+ Technical Committee meetings; presentations, reports, newsletters; advice on market access and regulatory compliance (Annual Report). |
| Capacity Building & Knowledge Sharing | Indo-European Conference on Standards & Emerging Technologies (4 editions); webinars on AI, Circular Economy, Smart Cities, Gender-responsive Standards. |
Why global alignment matters:
- Greater harmonisation of standards and market access practices for digitisation (ICT), clean technologies, and many other topics of mutual interest.
- Facilitation of EU and India alignment at policy, regulatory and standardisation levels.
- Establishment of a robust platform fostering dialogue between governments, researchers, SMEs, technology companies and societal stakeholders across Europe and India.