Certain Cetie documents are developed with the intention that these be subsequently proposed through the appropriate channels as a basis for developing a standard in CEN and/or ISO. In this case, they can be considered pre-standards. It is underlined that reference documents developed by Cetie do not have the status of standards, a term which is reserved for standards published by official national and international standards organisations such as Afnor, DIN, BSI, UNI, AENOR, ISO, etc., after a public enquiry. When a standard thus developed from a proposal from Cetie is published, Cetie systematically withdraws the corresponding Cetie data sheet from available downloadable publications and redirects all requests to the standard. The document remains accessible on request as a bibliographic reference, which may be cited in particular in the developed standard, and also to the members of the working group which prepared it. In all cases it is made clear that only the publishes standard must henceforth be used as a reference.

Only Cetie is authorised to distribute, share and store its documents.
Access to our documents is free of charge, but this service does not imply the distribution, sharing or storing by a third party, member or non-member.

Only if your company is a Cetie member can you access Cetie documents replaced by official standards .
For obsolete documents removed from the library, these are no longer accessible.

A systematic review of the documents is made by the Cetie working groups concerned in order to ensure the continued pertinency of the information and take into account technical and legislative developments

If it is deemed necessary to publish sheets for extended trial periods, before final publication, especially if the industrial practice is lacking, they will be watermarked as 'EXPERIMENTAL'.
The validation of the publication of these sheets follows a survey sent to the members one year after the publication, in order to get feedback on the industrial implementation.
If necessary, the 'experimental' period can be extended by the concerned working group for an additional period of up to one year.

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Our technical data-sheets and guides available from our website are created / revised by our working groups bringing together experts from Cetie member companies and federations.
Participants are technical experts holding strategic positions within their organisations: quality management, R&D, customer service, new product design, etc..

You do not have to become a Cetie member in order to have a free access to download our published documents.
Documents meetings in progress, minutes of the working groups or documents replaced by standards are only accessible to members.

Official national or international standards are not available from the Cetie website.
In order to download them you have to download them directly from your national standardisation institute like Afnor (France), BSI (Great Britain), DIN (Germany), etc.
It is also possible to acquire any National, European and International standards via a more global and approved website such as https://infostore.saiglobal.com/.

It is possible to respond positively to this type of request.
Indeed, even if the current document is the one available for download on the website, we can make available earlier published versions.

The Cetie homepage provides two levels of access:
A Member access and a simple access for persons wishing to consult Cetie published documents.
Publications are validated by the Cetie working group of experts, from organisations members of our association.
The simple access does not allow the download of documents under drafting stage or being currently discussed, as well as the agendas and minutes of meetings.
The timeframe for the publication of a Cetie document depends on the working group discussion and consensus.
It sometimes might take several years before the document is published.
Our members have thus the advantage to be part of the discussion/enquiry process, which enables them to implement quality and processes improvements by anticipation.

From www.cetie.org, click on “DOCUMENTARY RESOURCES” tab, then “Renew my password”, indicate the email address initially submitted while registering, then click on “SEND”

Our association is funded entirely by membership fees and does not benefit from any other financial support.

The membership fee is fixed annually by the Cetie Board according to activity and needs as a non-profit making association.
The fee is 3200 euros. The income from the membership fees finances a permanent staff of three :
General Secretary, Technical document manager/ translator, Administrative and communication/project development manager.
It also provides our members with facilities to allow the working group participants to meet, exchange, create new groups and suggest new work items.
This budget covers Cetie developments, including its website and the translation of our documentation production in English, French, German, etc.

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Please contact-us for information on meeting dates & agenda(s).

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If your company wishes to become a Cetie member, do not hesitate to contact us: you will receive a membership form, as well as the terms and conditions of membership.

Cetie is administered by a Board of Directors, consisting of a maximum of 25 members, appointed by the ordinary General Meeting for a term of office of three years and may be re-elected indefinitely.
Nominations are sent, in writing, to the Chair, 30 days before the date scheduled for the holding of the Ordinary General Meeting.
Individual persons appointed to the Board of directors, either in their own name or as the permanent representative of a legally registered entity who is a member, shall be in possession of all rights as a citizen and be members of Cetie.
Any organisation member can postulate to join the Cetie Board.

You have a technical question: Cetie can bring answers via our technical FAQ (click on the ""Documentary resources> FAQ"" tab).
The technical questions / answers are regularly updated and imported.
In case if you do not find any answer to your research, do not hesitate to contact-us via the ""Contact"" tab in the main menu.
We will reply on the basis of the accumulated knowledge in Cetie and, where possible, through our network of experts.
Cetie is specialised in editing technical documents and has no physical activities in bottling or consultancy.
In particular Cetie cannot give any commercial recommendation.