The European Commission has initiated a comprehensive review of the European standardisation system. This article claims that the Commission’s initial analysis is incomplete with regard to the difficulty of salvaging a formal legal role for European standards. It describes how the standards nonetheless can keep an important role, though through the back door. Continue reading A new Role for Standards in the EU Regulatory System
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Referring to standards: never think there is no further alternative
In particular for technical sectors, regulators tend to refer to international or national standards as a means to set up requirements. This article examines some risks and downsides of (classic) direct and specific referencing, a referencing that makes the standards mandatory (A.). Furthermore it presents a matrix that can be used to generate dozens or hundreds of alternative techniques of referencing that avoid these risks and downsides and describes in more details a few favourite techniques (B.). Continue reading Referring to standards: never think there is no further alternative