31In that regard, it must be borne in mind that, in the context of the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to products, giving rise, inter alia, to Directives 89/106 and 89/686, the institutions of the European Union are to adopt directives defining the basic requirements to be satisfied by the products which fall within their scope. The Commission goes on to give a mandate to European standards organisations, in accordance with the procedure laid down by Directive 83/189, to draw up technical specifications specifying the basic requirements set out in those directives. Once the standards have been established by those organisations, the Commission publishes the references of those standards in the Official Journal of the European Union. Such publication has the effect of conferring on products which are covered by a technical harmonisation directive, and which satisfy the technical requirements defined in the harmonised standards relating to those products, the benefit of a presumption of conformity with the basic requirements of the directive concerned.
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