Vienna Agreement

Transfer of standard methods according to the Vienna Agreement... 

Tod, CEN and ISO cooperate according to the so-called Vienna Agreement of 1991 in order to save resources and to avoid duplication of work or contradictory standard methods in CEN and ISO. Both organizations agreed on basic principles, for example, on synchronized approval procedures or simultaneous publication. Standardization projects started in ISO can be transferred to CEN, if necessary, and vice versa. The transfer process can be started either by the so-called unique acceptance procedure (UAP, see Section 1.3.5) on a finalized ISO or CEN standard or by the parallel voting procedure (PVP, see Section 1.3.5) on a document qualified for an enquiry process (ISO/CEN, 2001). 

International Standards Organization, 2004. Guidelines for the Implementation of the Agreement on Technical Co-operation between ISO and CEN (Vienna Agreement), Fifth edition. 

As described in the section on TC221, these two committees operate under the Vienna Agreement, which was briefly described. 

Through an agreement in Vienna in 1991, CEN and ISO have cooperated in the following way. Since both technical committees targeted standardization of cleanroom specifications they were merged to form the committee ISO/TC 209, Cleanrooms and Associated Controlled Environments. Draft standards are submitted to ISO and CEN bodies at the same time. If approved by CEN, the standard will become a mandatory national standard of all the European states and existing conflicting requirements have to be withdrawn. If approved by ISO, the member states (outside Europe) can adopt the standard if they want to do so. 

The NEA Data Bank provides nuclear data and computer program services for participating countries. In these and related tasks, the NEA works in close collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, with which it has a Co-operation Agreement, as well as with other international organisations in the nuclear field. 

ITER EDA Agreement and Protocol 2, ITER EDA Documentation Series No. 5, IAEA, Vienna, 1994... 

The meeting also made a preliminary review of trade in the safrole-rich oils from South-East Asia, took note of the agreements reached at the Project Prism round-table consultation on pseudoephedrine, held in Vienna in March 2005, and recommended further action. 

The relatively non-poisonous red phosphorus was discovered in 1845 (Anton Schrotter in Vienna) and had been used since 1851-1852 (some sources say the Paris Exhibition of 1855), either in the match itself or within the material of the surface upon which the match was rubbed ("safety matches"). However, "friction matches" incorporating white phosphorus continued to be made for a least another half-century and it wasn t until the reatisation, in 1898 (Sevene and Cahen in France), that the non-poisonous phosphorus sesquisulphide (P4S3 previously discovered by Berzelius) could be used successfully as a substitute, that an agreement (eventually in Europe, the "Berne Convention 1906" in USA, the "Esch" law and "Match Act" of 1912) finally put an end to the use of white phosphorus in the match industry. 

The protection of the world climate or components thereof has become the object of international agreements since the end of the seventies. The most important agreements to that extent are the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, 1979 and its Protocols, as well as the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, 1985 and its Protocol (Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, 1987). However, only the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992 (Framework Convention) together with the Kyoto Protocol represent a comprehensive approach to international protection of the climate. 

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