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By Dave Hodges, MD, Blakeglow Systems Ltd. What will be the impact of a UK exit from the EU on European and international standards?

There is obvious current interest in how the UK will exit the EU and the effect that this will have on the future of the UK’s involvement in European and International standards. The British Standards Institute (BSI) has issued a statement for guidance and the following is a précis of their views. National level BSI will continue to develop and publish British Standards. No changes are anticipated to UK Committee activity in this area. European level BSI maintains the UK membership of the three European standardisation organisations: CEN, CENELEC and ETSI. Membership of these organisations should continue as normal; it will hopefully be ‘business as usual’ in all aspects of BSI standards-making and publishing activity. It is BSI’s ambition, on behalf of UK stakeholders, for the UK to continue to participate in the European standards system as a full member of CEN and CENELEC post- ‘Brexit’

Dave Hodges, MD, Blakeglow Systems Ltd.

David Hodges, MD of Blakeglow Systems Ltd., was chairman of the CAI for 24 years after joining the Board in 1980.

He was educated in Sevenoaks and at South East London Technical College where he gained a full Tech, and completed his apprenticeship as a development engineer with GEC Elliott Automation, working on power station control and monitoring systems. After a short period at the SIRA Institute as a research technologist, he joined Chubb as a project engineer and became surveillance divisional manager. In 1976, he joined the SCTE and two years later joined as a CAI member, becoming involved with the Confederation, joining the CAI board and soon becoming MD of Blakeglow Ltd. Over the past few years, he has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Society and presented with the Tom Hall award. He has also been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the CAI and been presented with the John Summerfield award by the CAI. He is Principle Expert in BSI EPL100 and EPL100/4, CENELEC CLC/TC209 and IEC TC100/TA5 and a member of Working Group 1, 2 and 3 Committees as well as being the Working Group 1 Convenor.

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Vol. 38 No. 4 - November 2016 Issue