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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.

News items in this issue include:

• Oodles of ESTA standards in public review.
• Register for the 2025 Symposium on Education in Entertainment and Engineering.
• Events Industry Forum guidance: a lite Purple Guide; scare attractions; drugs & alcohol at festivals, and counter-terrorism.
• Changes to the Horse Protection Act delayed until next year.
• ANSI's IEC & ISO Conference delayed until next year.
• WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: plastic containers in Maine; wireless emergency alerts in the USA; digital security in the EU; and big trucks in the EU.
• ANSI public reviews: aluminum spot-welding; topple barriers; the NEC; the Life Safety Code; NFPA building construction code; seismic restraint; and mass notification systems.
• BSI public reviews: walking robots; aluminium alloys; and mobile elevating work platforms.
• CSA public review: BIM.
• New ANS projects tractor operator's manuals; residential mold assessment; direct contact liquid cooling systems for electronics gear; direct current fast-charging cables; online monitoring of public charging facilities; and EMC for lighting equipment.
• Final actions on American National Standards: addendum to  ASHRAE/ICC/IES/USGBC Standard 189.1; three addenda to ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1; and qualifications of welding fabricators.
• Draft IEC & ISO docs: lithium cells and batteries; multimedia conferencing user experience; two functional safety of control systems draft standards; project management; UV germicidal equipment; disaster risk finance; and EMC for switch-mode power supplies.
• Recently published ISO & IEC docs: graphic symbols for diagrams; data center energy efficiency and performance indicators; and two standards for C.
• TSP meetings in Minneapolis.
• Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program.

The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available at http://estalink.us/nn7a1.