Industry pushes Com to preserve the New Approach to technical harmonisation
18 June 2018
The European Commission convened a ‘high-level’ Inter-institutional dialogue on European Standardisation on the 7 of June in Brussels. Only four industry representatives were invited although the event was titled “European standardisation for a smart, innovative and sustainable industry”. Although largely outnumbered by eight participants from CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, eight participants from the four societal stakeholders and eight from the EU Institutions, the industry delegation high-jacked the original agenda: Paul Coebergh van den Braak (Philips/BusinessEurope) and Mette Peetz-Schou (DI/Orgalime) stressed with the support of DigitalEurope and Applia that it was high time for the Commission to have better consideration for preserving the New Approach to technical harmonisation and therefore to remove detailed bureaucratic requirements on the daily operation of the European standardisation system. Attention was also drawn to the need to keep the ESS market driven. However, no concrete follow-up was decided at the end of the meeting.
