Until recently, there has been no universal standard for creating plain language documents or for judging what is plain. This has made it difficult for people writing and designing documents to assess the quality of their processes and their documents.
Now, for the first time, we have an internationally agreed-upon standard that tells people what plain language is and how to create plain language documents.

On 19th September 2007, a Memorandum of Understanding between ENSHPO and ENETOSH was signed. This memorandum of Understanding aimed at a co-operation between both networks especially in the area of education and training. Now the two network renewed this MoU.