ETSI Standards Making Process guide

ETSI Deliverables

Work in ETSI is done on the basis of ETSI work items, approved by the Technical Body and adopted by the ETSI membership. A work item results in one deliverable (sometimes more than one), which can be a European Standard or a Technical Specification, an ETSI Guide or a Technical Report. ETSI has a suite of specifications, standards and reports that fulfil the various needs of the market:

• ETSI EN (European Standard) - adopted by ETSI National Standards Organizations (NSOs) (except those elaborated in response to a Standardisation Request (SReq)).
• ETSI European standardisation deliverables – adopted by ETSI National Standardisation Bodies (NSBs)
• ETSI TS (ETSI Technical Specification) and ETSI TR (ETSI Technical Report) - adopted by the responsible Technical Group (except those elaborated in response to a Standardisation Request (SReq)).
• ETSI ES (ETSI Standard) and ETSI EG (ETSI Guide) - adopted by ETSI Members (except those elaborated in response to a Standardisation Request (SReq)).
• ETSI SR (ETSI Special Report) - adopted by the ETSI responsible Technical Group (except those elaborated in response to a Standardisation Request (SReq)).
• ETSI GS (ETSI Group Specification) and GR (ETSI Group Report) - adopted the responsible Industry Specification Group.

NOTE: The skeletons of each specification are available here.

This suite of deliverables fulfils the needs for:

• deliverable intended to meet needs specific to Europe and requiring transposition into national standards - ETSI EN
• deliverable intended to meet needs specific to the Europe Economic Area (EEA), required under a Standardisation Request (SReq) from the European Commission (EC)/European Free Trade Association (EFTA) – ETSI EN and European standardisation deliverable.
• deliverable providing technical requirements or explanatory material or both – ETSI GS
• deliverable containing only informative elements – ETSI GR
• high quality specifications delivered early to the market - ETSI TS.
• high quality standards supported by the whole ETSI global membership - ETSI ES.
• deliverable containing explanatory material – ETSI TR.
• information document used for various purposes, including giving public availability to information not produced within a Technical Group – ETSI SR
• document elaborated by ETSI partners and adopted by ETSI, to become an ETSI Technical Specification (TS) or an ETSI Technical Report (TR) - Publicly Available Specification (PAS).

NOTE: For more information, please read about PASs in our Partnerships section.

The numbering convention used by ETSI to link related documents at these various "levels" simplifies their market application.

Process

The Standards Making Process (SMP) is the process applied for the Technical Organization's production of standards and deliverables and the Secretariat's involvement in and interaction with the Technical Organization, the ETSI members and the ETSI National Standards Organizations. The general conditions for the SMP are defined by the ETSI Directives, in particular the Technical Working Procedures. The Secretariat's tasks and activities in SMP are primarily defined in the Quality Management System (QMS) documentation of ETSI Operations (OPS) Division.