Chapter III, Article 10 · Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012

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Article 10Standardisation requests to European standardisation organisations#

1.The Commission may, within the limitations of the competences laid down in the Treaties, request that one or more European standardisation organisations draft a European standard or European standardisation deliverable within a set deadline, provided that the European standardisation organisation concerned complies with paragraph 2a. European standards and European standardisation deliverables shall be market-driven, take into account the public interest as well as the policy objectives clearly stated in the Commission’s request and be based on consensus. The Commission shall determine the requirements as to the content to be met by the requested document and a deadline for its adoption.

2.The decisions referred to in paragraph 1 shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 22(3) after consultation of the European standardisation organisations and the European stakeholder organisations receiving Union financing in accordance with this Regulation as well as the committee set up by the corresponding Union legislation, when such a committee exists, or after other forms of consultation of sectoral experts.

2a.Without prejudice to other advisory opinions, each European standardisation organisation shall ensure that the following decisions concerning European standards and European standardisation deliverables referred to in paragraph 1 are taken exclusively by representatives of the national standardisation bodies within the competent decision-making body of that organisation:

(a)decisions on the acceptance and refusal of standardisation requests;

(b)decisions on the acceptance of new work items that are needed for the fulfilment of the standardisation request; and

(c)decisions on the adoption, revision and withdrawal of European standards or European standardisation deliverables.

3.The relevant European standardisation organisation shall indicate, within one month following its receipt, if it accepts the request referred to in paragraph 1.

4.Where a request for funding is made, the Commission shall inform the relevant European standardisation organisations, within two months following the receipt of the acceptance referred to in paragraph 3, about the award of a grant for drafting a European standard or a European standardisation deliverable.

5.The European standardisation organisations shall inform the Commission about the activities undertaken for the development of the documents referred to in paragraph 1. The Commission together with the European standardisation organisations shall assess the compliance of the documents drafted by the European standardisation organisations with its initial request.

6.Where a harmonised standard satisfies the requirements which it aims to cover and which are set out in the corresponding Union harmonisation legislation, the Commission shall publish a reference of such harmonised standard without delay in the Official Journal of the European Union or by other means in accordance with the conditions laid down in the corresponding act of Union harmonisation legislation.

7.Where a European standard drafted in support of Regulation (EU) 2023/988 of the European Parliament and of the Council^note satisfies the general safety requirement laid down in Article 5 of that Regulation and the specific safety requirements referred to in Article 7(2) of that Regulation, the Commission shall publish a reference to that European standard without delay in the Official Journal of the European Union.