Chapter III, Article 11 · Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012

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Article 11Formal objections to harmonised standards#

1.When a Member State or the European Parliament considers that a harmonised standard or European standard drafted in support of Regulation (EU) 2023/988 does not entirely satisfy the requirements which it aims to cover and which are set out in the relevant Union harmonisation legislation or in that Regulation, it shall inform the Commission thereof with a detailed explanation. The Commission shall, after consulting the committee set up by the corresponding Union harmonisation legislation, if it exists, or the committee set up by that Regulation, or after other forms of consultation of sectoral experts, decide:

(a)to publish, not to publish or to publish with restriction the references to the harmonised standard or European standard concerned drafted in support of that Regulation in the Official Journal of the European Union; and

(b)to maintain, to maintain with restriction or to withdraw the references to the harmonised standard or European standard concerned drafted in support of that Regulation in or from the Official Journal of the European Union.

2.The Commission shall publish information on its website on the harmonised standards and European standards drafted in support of Regulation (EU) 2023/988 that have been subject to a decision pursuant to paragraph 1.

3.The Commission shall inform the European standardisation organisation concerned of any decision adopted pursuant to paragraph 1 and, if necessary, request the revision of the harmonised standards or of the European standards concerned drafted in support of Regulation (EU) 2023/988.

4.The decision referred to in point (a) of paragraph 1 of this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 22(2).

5.The decision referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1 of this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 22(3).