Union Technique de l'Electricité

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The UTE - Union Technique de l'Electricité (Electrical Engineering Association) is a French standards body. The non-profit organization is a founding member of CENELEC and IEC.

tasks

The UTE is comparable to the German Commission for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (DKE) . As with this, the name was expanded to Union technique de l'électricité et de la communication (Association of electrical engineering and communications engineering) to refer to the expanded range of tasks without changing the abbreviation. The approximately 3000 experts are active in the fields of electronics, electrical engineering, automation and communication (telephony and remote data transmission).

history

The story goes back to the first International Electricity Exhibition in Paris in 1881 , which took place there together with the International Electricity Congress . The Société Internationale des Electriciens was subsequently founded in 1883 . In 1904 it was commissioned to found an international commission to standardize the standards. This took place on June 17, 1906 in London as the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

As a result of the establishment of the IEC, the establishment of a French standards control body (Système Français de Normalization) became necessary. A number of partner organizations founded the Comité Electrotechnique Français (CEF - French Commission for Electrical Engineering) in the summer of 1906 . At the beginning of 1907 the associations of the Syndicat Professionnel des Industries Electriques (SPIE - Professional Association of the Electrical Industry ) and the Syndicat Professionnel des Usines d'Electricité (Professional Association of Electricity Companies) meet to create a joint umbrella organization - this Union des Syndicats de l'Electricité (USE - Electricity Association / Electrical Engineering Association) was founded on April 9, 1907 in Nanterre. This counts as the founding date of the UTE, because on July 16, 1907, USE was recognized as a state standardization body and set up a standardization office in Paris (comparable to the establishment of a standards committee at the German Institute for Standardization ).

In 1947, USE was renamed UTE, Union Technique de l'Electricité (Electrical Engineering Association).

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