Following a voting process among CEN member countries in 2013, it was proposed that the e-CF should progress to become a European standard (EN). In accordance with CEN rules, the CEN Technical Committee (TC) 428 “e-Competences and ICT Professionalism” was created to pursue this aim. The committee is composed of national delegates nominated by the national CEN member organisations (e.g. AENOR in Spain, AFNOR in France, DIN in Germany) under the secretariat of the Italian standardisation body UNI.In this work environment the e-CF 3.0 was transformed into a European standard and re-published as the European Norm (EN) 16234 in 2016. Identical in its structure and content to the e-CF 3.0 CWA, the new EN format provides great opportunities for further dissemination and continued adoption of the framework EU-wide.