Online Standards Development

What is it?

The Online Standards Development (OSD) platform (formerly known as Online Collaborative Authoring/OCA) is a Word-like tool based on a product called FontoXML that technical bodies can use to draft their project deliverables. It will then flow through to following steps of the production chain.

Scope of supported deliverables

CEN EN, TR, TS

New or a revision (not an amendment or corrigendum)

Homegrown (not under the Vienna Agreement) 

Not an Harmonized standard

In stage 00.60 or 10.99

📢How to get started ?

 Call for projects - Drafting stage

• If you don't have a Work Item yet for your project

Select OSD in the NWI form/Digital aspects section. Information will be shared to the relevant team and document created in OSD. 

• If you already have a Work Item for your project

Fill-in this evaluation form to start drafting in the OSD tool.

 

If your project is not supported yet (e.g. CENELEC projects, amendments), then don't worry - we're working on getting the tool ready for you to use in the future. Please register for an info session or get in touch to learn more.

 

🔨 Sandbox access

Want to try it out but not ready to sign up as a project yet? Request sandbox access.

Support & Training 

Support 

Already on board ? If you need help :

- How to use the tool: Check out the knowledge base

- How to manage an OSD project specificities (Doc creation, submission, figures, etc.): Check out our CEN User guides 

- For IT issues (server down, outages, bugs, etc.) at helpdeskcentc@iso.org.

- For Business issues (processes, tool features, etc.) at production@cencenelec.eu

• CEN Authoring (drafting stages):

Agenda: How to get started, Tool demo and Q&A

 

Target audience: Existing or prospective projects (TCs members), other interested people

Date & time	Registration link
Wednesday 2026-01-15 10 to 11 am CET	Register
Monday 2026-02-25 2 to 3 Pm CET	Register
Slides Recording

• CEN Member commenting (Enquiry and Formal Vote stages):

Agenda: Tool demo and Q&A

 

Target audience: CEN Voters and their support team, CEN Centralized Voters, CEN National secretaries and their support team.

Date & time	Registration link
Wednesday 2025-12-17 3 to 4 pm CET	Register
Wednesday 2025-01-21 10 to 11 am CET	Register
Thursday 2025-02-26 10 to 11 am CET	Register
Recording and slides

 

Documentation

All documentation can be found on CEN Experts Site/ Users guides & Templates :

• Permissions Guide - Who has access to what (for all stages of the drafting process)
• How to manage an OSD document from project creation to submission
• Submission guide 
• Figures requirements
• ...

🔔 Next steps - Status update

Last updated: 2025-11-27

CEN DELIVERABLES

	Phase 1 - Authoring & Editing  (00.60 to 40.10)	Phase 2 - Member Commenting  (40.20 to 50.10)	Phase 3 - End to End process (50.20 to 60.60)
CEN Homegrown Standards EN, TR,TS (hEns excl)	Already available
CEN Harmonized Standards hENs	2026

CENELEC deliverables

Timeline to be confirmed - dependency with IEC

ISO & IEC collaboration

The project is being led by ISO & IEC, and we are making sure that CEN and CENELEC requirements are incorporated (eg: EU Directives Annexes ZZ and ZA). You can also take a look at the counterpart ISO project page and IEC project page.

 

❓ Frequently Asked Questions