The Commission has recently announced a possible legislative proposal on an EU wide harmonised certification procedure for alarm systems and system components. This policy initiative is directly related to the Communication on a Security Industry Policy: "Action Plan for an innovative and competitive Security Industry" (COM (2012) 417), to achieve mutual recognition of certification systems and overcome market fragmentation.  

In order to elaborate the above-mentioned legislative proposal, the Commission is required to perform a preliminary impact assessment analysis based on a public consultation.

The public consultation has been recently launched through the publication of an on-line questionnaire, accessible to the interested stakeholders until 10 July2013.

On the following link to the webpage of the DG Enterprise and Industry you can find the on-line questionnaire: 

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/security/industrial-policy/consultation-on-alarm-systems/index_en.htm                     

The European Commission published the catalog containing an overview of all projects currently supported by FP7’s Security Research budget as of May 2012. The catalog can be downloaded in pdf version at the following link:

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=6296&lang=en&tpa_id=168&title=EU-Research-for-a-Secure-Society

The goal of the eSEC project is to design and implement a web-based, open source repository where professionals working in the area of security and safety can share resources to best support the needs of students, faculty, researchers, and professionals across the European Union.

http://www.esecportal.eu/