Global Representation

NIA Members are represented on a number of global fora and committees:

Policy & Regulation:

The NIA provides the Vice-Chair to the BIAC (Business and Industry Advisory Committee)  Nanotechnology Committee.

The NIA is a lead-representative of BIAC at the OECD WPMN (Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials), as well as the OECD WPN (Working Party on Nanotechnology).

Standards & Norms:

The NIA is an expert participant in the ISO/TC 229 (International Organisation for Standardization / Technical Committee on Nanotechnologies).

The NIA is a liaison member of CEN/TC 352 (European Committee for Standardization / Technical Committee on Nanotechnologies), as well as a full member of the BSI NTI/1 (British Standards Institution committee on Nanotechnologies).

Statements & Opinions

November 2010:
NIA Position on nano-specific Provisions in the Revision of the Novel Foods Regulation ((EC) No 258/97)


November 2009:
NIA joins SEMI Europe Comments on the European Commission’s Communication “Preparing for our future: Developing a common strategy for key enabling technologies in the EU” {COM(2009)512}


March 2009:
NIA Statement on the publication of the ‘Opinion of the Scientific Committee on the Potential Risks Arising from Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies on Food and Feed Safety’  (adopted by EFSA on 10 February 2009)


November 2008:
NIA Comment on the Twenty-seventh Report of the (UK) Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, entitled ’Novel Materials in the Environment:  The case of nanotechnology’


November 2008:
NIA Comment on the issuing of a new coverage exclusion form ‘CW 33 69 06 08 – Nanotubes and Nanotechnology Exclusion and associated Policyholder Notice PN 61 61 07 08’ (Continental Western Group)


September 2008:
NIA Letters to the REACH Competent Authorities Subgroup on Nanomaterials (CASG Nano) (in collaboration with CEFIC, EMA, and IMA Europe)


September 2008:
NIA Comment on the paper entitled ‘In Vivo Skin Penetration of Quantum Dot Nanoparticles in the Murine Model: The Effect of UVR’ (Mortensen et al., Nano Letters; 2008; ASAP Web Release Date: 08-Aug-2008; (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/nl801323y)


May 2008:
NIA Statement on the publication of a paper entitled ‘Carbon nanotubes introduced into the abdominal cavity display asbestos-like pathogenic behaviour in a pilot study’  (Poland et al., Nature Nanotech 3(6) (2008), online: 20th May 2008) [registered NIA Members can download the 'NIA Suggested FAQs', and the 'NIA Statement' , prepared in response to the paper, from the 'Members only'-area on the NIA website, by following the link to 'NIA Press Briefings, FAQs & Positions']