UK ETSI
MEMBERS’ CONFERENCE
The UK
ETSI Members’ Conference provides a forum for the UK members to prepare for
their participation in ETSI General Assembly meetings where representation is
by National delegation, the conference is chaired by the head of the UK delegation
to the ETSI General Assembly.
The next ETSI General Assembly meeting, No. 55 (GA#55) will be held in the Hotel Martinez, Cannes, France starting on Tuesday 30 March 2010 at 09h00 and the meeting will
continue until 16h00 on Wednesday 31 March 2010.
Registration and meeting
documents for the Cannes meeting GA#55 are available at: http://docbox.etsi.org/ga/ga55 together with Collective Letter
10_2769 which is the formal invitation.
The UK Members’
preparation for GA#55 is planned for Tuesday 23 March 2010 - to
commence at 1300 and finish hopefully by 1730 - the meeting will again be hosted
by Wragge
&Co, 3 Waterhouse Square, London, EC1N 2SW
Location
Map at http://www.wragge.com/london.asp
UK ETSI
Members’ will receive an individual invitation (via the UK Members’ e-mail list)
with the necessary registration details.
Please Note:
Security restrictions will require that all members’ notify their participation
in advance
A first draft
UK Members’ brief will be distributed prior to the preparatory meeting and the
final version of the UK Members’ brief for GA#55 will be e-mailed following the
preparatory meeting.
If you are
a UK ETSI Member and are not in receipt of the UK Members’ mailings, then
please advise at the e-mail address below.
BACKGROUND
ETSI – the European
Telecommunications Standards Institute is based
in Sophia Antipolis, France and is responsible for preparing voluntary and
harmonised standards for the complete range of telecommunications, including
radio and broadcast, products. Day to day management is the responsibility of
the Director General, who is appointed by the General Assembly.
The ETSI
General Assembly (GA) normally meets twice per year in the Acropolis Centre,
Nice, France and is responsible for the overall ETSI policy, it appoints the
Director General (DG) - the ETSI Board members and Board chairman and is
supported by a Finance Committee and ad hoc groups as required.
GENERAL
INFORMATION
ETSI’s
best known product is GSM, the ‘Global System for Mobile’ communication, though
originally the term GSM was the abbreviation for ‘Groupe Spéciale Mobile’, from
the standardisation activity’s origins within CEPT, ETSI’s predecessor
ETSI
Standards can be downloaded free of charge via the Publications
Download Area, but note that only publicly available drafts and publications can
be downloaded via this application
General
Contact for UK ETSI members – mail@uketsi.org.uk