Decision of the Standing Committee of the EFTA States No. 1/2022/SC of 8 December 2022 on the Procedure for issuing of standardisation requests to the European Standardisation Organisations [2023/1654]
Date: 2022-12-08
Institutions: Standing Committee of the EFTA States
Subjects: Cenelec, ETSI, European Committee for Standardisation, European Economic Area, European standard, harmonisation of standards, standard, technical specification








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            DECISION OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE EFTA STATES No. 1/2022/SC
of 8 December 2022
         
on the Procedure for issuing of standardisation requests to the European Standardisation Organisations [2023/1654]


THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE EFTA STATES,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council, which was incorporated into the EEA Agreement by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 9/2014 of 14 February 2014,


Having regard to Article 1(e) of Protocol 1 to the Agreement on a Standing Committee of the EFTA States,


Whereas it has become necessary to establish a procedure to streamline the issuing of standardisation requests to the European Standardisation Organisations,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:



Article 1
The procedure for issuing of standardisation requests to the European Standardisation Organisations is adopted, as described in the Annex to this Decision.


Article 2
This Decision shall be published in the EEA Section of, and in the EEA Supplement to, the Official Journal of the European Union.


Article 3
This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption.




Done at Brussels, 8 December 2022.


For the Standing Committee


The Chair

Kristján Andri STEFÁNSSON
            



The Secretary-General

Henri GÉTAZ
            







ANNEX
Procedure for the issuing of standardisation requests to the European Standardisation Organisations CEN, CENELEC and ETSI

1.   

Standardisation requests are the mechanism by which the European Commission (‘EC’) and the Standing Committee of the EFTA States (the ‘Standing Committee’) request the European Standardisation Organisations (‘ESOs’) (1) to develop and adopt European standards in support of European policies and legislation, as described in Article 10(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) on European standardisation.



2.   

Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 was incorporated into the EEA Agreement in 2014 (3). Article 1(e) of Protocol 1 to the Agreement on a Standing Committee of the EFTA States specifies that the task of issuing mandates (standardisation requests) to the ESOs is to be carried out by the Standing Committee.



3.   

The Standing Committee delegates the authority to issue standardisation requests to the Working Group on Technical Barriers to Trade (the ‘WG TBT’).



4.   

When the EFTA Secretariat is notified of a standardisation request by DG GROW (4), it will send the request to the WG TBT, with copy to the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade, asking the EEA EFTA States to explicitly approve the request within two weeks.



5.   

Once the WG TBT has approved the standardisation request on behalf of the Standing Committee, the Secretariat will send a letter issuing the standardisation request to the relevant ESO(s). The letter will be sent by the Director, or the Deputy Director, of the Internal Market Division in the EFTA Secretariat on behalf of the Standing Committee.



6.   

The Secretariat will send an annual report to Subcommittee I and to the Standing Committee on the standardisation requests issued for the previous year.




(1)  CEN, CENELEC and ETSI.

(2)  
            OJ L 316, 14.11.2012, p. 12.

(3)  Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 9/2014 of 14 February 2014 (OJ L 211, 17.7.2014, p. 13).

(4)  The European Commission’s Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs.