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Monday, November 23, 2015

Worth remembering from the CITD-training on "Standards and how these support technical regulations"

The topics identified worth remembering during the concluding reflection on the training on 23rd of November in New Delhi were:

  • The definitions of "standards" and "technical regulations
  • The difference between "mandatory standars" (=technical regulations) and "voluntary standards"
  • The concept "presumption of conformity"
  • What is required for the elaboration of technical regulations
  • The method of transposing harmonised European standards (EN/HD) into national standards
  • The lack of specification by the WTO TBT-committee which standards organisations are international standards organisations
  • The CEN/CENELEC process to developed standards to be regarded as Hamonised standards by the European Commission publishing indicative references to them in the Official Journal of the EU
  • The legal aspects of standards and technical regulations
  • The New Approach Directives
  • The need for regulators to consider any other measures (like voluntary standards) available before the elaboration  of  a technical regulation