We are delighted to share the news that, as of 15th April 2026, the EU Standards related Collaborative Workshop Agreement CWA 18361:2026 - Methodology for Early-Stage Sustainability Assessment and Efficient Energy by Design is available and freely accessible to anyone on the CEN open-access CWA download area.

This newsletter, the sixth since the ETERNAL project started, provides ample opportunities to dig deeper into both the project’s research illuminating the environmental risks surrounding pharmaceutical manufacture and positive responses from the industry to minimize the risks through technological innovation and standardization for less impactful, more efficient, sustainable and safe by design processes.

Two new CEN Workshops are being planned which will complement the activities of the EU Research project ETERNAL. These activities will seek to establish standardized methods for 'determining the encapsulation efficiency of RNA and DNA in LNPs using fluorometry' and 'early-stage sustainability assessment for chemical and biochemical manufacturing processes' respectively.

This report has been produced in the context of ETERNAL-WP6, Task 6.6 – Standardisation activities. The standardisation activities of T6.6 are foreseen to be a facilitator of the acceptance and utilisation by the market of the ETERNAL solutions, as well as a tool to improve the development and the exploitation strategy of the project.

Using standards as a knowledge source in the earliest possible stages of research and innovation avoids duplication of work and provides the basis for future marketable products. This deliverable identifies and describes the standardisation technical committees (TCs) at European and International level related to the ETERNAL project as well as the published standards (existing and under development) that could be relevant and useful for all the project activities.