Antenna standards and laboratories in Europe

The goal of this paper is to present an overview on antenna standards and laboratories within Europe. In this context, Europe will be limited geographically to the member nations of the European Union (EU), formerly the European Community, and the European Space Agency (ESA). In addition to these two instances, other parallel organizations in this field exist such as the Western European Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (WELAC), the Western European Calibration Cooperation (WECC) which includes EUROMET, the European Collaboration for Measurement Standards and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). And lastly, there are the national standards organizations and laboratories.<>