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Date: 1980-08-19
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of TECHNICAL STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                             COM(80)400 final
                                             Brussels , 19 August 1980
                              Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL DECISION
           laying down a procedure for the provision of
           information in the field of TECHNICAL STANDARDS
                           AND REGULATIONS
              ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
                         /  ,
 C0MC80 ) 400 final
                       ;
 ---pagebreak---                            EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND    -
I. The Commission is concerned lay the developments which have taken place
    in the field of technical "barriers to trade in the Community in recent
            φ
    years .
    For more than fifteen years it has "been endeavouring to remove such .
   "barriers "between the Member States . The free movement of goods is one
    of the principles underlying the Community, just as the creation of a
    single market is an indispensable element of the projects it seeks to
    promote in various fields .
    In 19^8 , the Commission sent the Council a proposal for a general pro­
    gramme on the removal of technical "barriers to trade . Since this was
    adopted , it has regularly submitted proposals for directives designed to
    implement the programme ^ it monitors the correct implementation - "by the
    Member States of directives already adopted and itself adopts directives
    designed to "bring Community legislation into line with technical develop­
    ments .
    It is now apparent that measures taken in this field , with the assistance
    of the Member States and tte two sides of industry, have formed an adequate
    economic "basis in several industrial sectors which has enabled them to
    increase competitiveness in relation to their competitors in non-Member
    countries .
    Nevertheless , prevailing economic trends have not always induced the
    Member States to continue their efforts to create the necessary Community
    basis from which the various branches of industry could meet competition
    from non-Member countries . In some cases even, several Member States seem
    tempted to erect de jure or de facto barriers around their own markets by
    exploiting the technical requirements and standards laid down in this
 -  field at national level .
    This approach would constitute a danger if it were to persist since , as
    a result of similar measures taken by the other Member States , it would
    lead the industries concerned to fall back and concentrate on their
    national territory, thereby preventing consumers from enjoying the bene­
 ---pagebreak---      fits of economies of seals and the effects of competition within a uni­
     fied market .
     If European in&uatri&Ii sta cannot teUco aclvamtago of tho " Cosinvunity dimen­
     sion" to increase production , they are at a disadvantage compared with
    competitors who already have access to a vast market . Their export
    opportunities are reduced , with resultant adverse effects on the economies
    of all 'the Member States .
    With the machinery available to it at present , the Commission feels unable
    to achieve its goal of halting this development . This highlights the need
    to supplement the measures already token . Thus , after roughly ten years
    of applying it , the Commission is of the opinion that the general programme
    ought to be supplemented in at least two respects .
Current problems
II . a ) Whereas it is easy to draw up technical specifications at national
         level , the corresponding Community procedure is cumbersome and pro­
         tracted because of the number of experts to be consulted and the
         institutions and bodies involved . Agreements having economic reper­
         cussions have to be obtained from all the governments concerned in
         respect of highly technical texts . The deadlines laid down in 1969
         by the Agreement providing for standstill and notification to the
         Co3smission (*) have proved inadequate for this purpose .
         The barriers which may be caught by the directives in question are
         those based on laws , regulations or administrative provisions . Yet
         the technical standards issued by the national standards institutes ,
         although not legally binding, cay create substantial de facto barriers .
         In several Member States , standards constitute the " rules of the trade "
         and products conforming to these rules enjoy considerable advantages ;
         for example , the manufacturer concerned need no longer provide evidence
         of compliance with safety regulations , whereas provision of such evi­
         dence frequently involves a lengthy, difficult and expensive procedure
         for a manufacturer producing articles to a foreign standard . Although
(*) OJ No C 76 of 17 June 1969 , p. 9
 ---pagebreak---        national standards , which are drawn up in close cooperation with local
       producers and brought into line with their technical innovations , may
       oooaaionnlly giv« #ueh m«uwfaotur«sp « * dsolslvo advantage iu their ovm
       markets , this , has "been diminished by the fragmentation of the Community
       internal market . Similar machinery exists in virtually all the Member     •
       States and , in the final analysis , the lack of coordination between
       measures adopted at national level has adverse impact on Economic per­
  "    formance .
The decisions of the Court of Justice
III . As a result of the guidelines contained in the Court 's interpretations _
       of the law, technical regulations relating to goods which impede the
       marketing of products legally manufactured and sold in another Member
       State may be adopted only if they are necessary to meet essential re­
       quirements and have an objective in the public interest of which they
       constitute the main guarantee .
       The creation and maintenance of barriers to trade between the Member
       States arising from the application of national regulations can be
       avoided by virtue of these decisions provided they are supplemented by
       more broadly–based measures which preclude the creation of technical
       barriers , particularly . those resulting from the lack of coordination
       between the national standards institutes .
The Commission 's proposal
XV. IDuring 1979 and 1980, the Commission convened meetings of the senior
     officials responsible for standardization in the various Member States
     and examined the report which they sent to the heads of industry depart­
     ments and which the latter approved .
      It monitored the progress of the discussions in the Economic and Social
      Committee which resulted in the " Opinion on the problem of trade barriers
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    and the alignment of laws in this area"(*). It also contacted the senior
    officials of the European Committee for Standardization ( CEN") (**) and
    the European ELactrotechnical Standardization Committee (OENtSLBC ) (**),
    In January 1980, it sent a communication to the European Parliament which
    gave rise to fruitful discussions .
    All these considerations prompted the Commission to submit the attached
    proposal for a decision to the Council . As the wording indicates , the
    proposal relates mainly to the industrial sector , where the problems
    referred to have "become particularly acute . This is the main , if not
    the exclusive , field of activity of the national and European standards
    institutes ; a different approach is adopted in respect of specifications
    concerning agricultural products and mandatory health , veterinary or
    plant–protection regulations . It therefore seems preferable at present
    to exclude them from the*scope of this decision, which is based on the
    following considerations :
 A. INFORMATION
    The Commission must ensure that technical regulations and standards do
    not create barriers . In this context , it can only . act in so far as the
    relevant information is complete and available in time . On the basis of
    an examination of both the technical and the economic aspects , it can
    propose action at Community level and submit comments to the national autho­
    rities in an effort to prevent their contemplated measures from disrupting
    intra-Conunity trade . It is also essential that each Member State be in­
    formed . National standards and technical requirements may give rise to
    barriers which are subsequently extremely difficult to remove if the
    specifications in question do not from the outset take account of proce–
     ure3 employed in the other Member States . If , as has happened on several
    occasions recently, foreign producers are taken unawares by the intro­
    duction of a new provision , they are forced to make sudden alterations
    to their products for export to countries where the new requirement
    applies , with all the costs and constraints which this entails , or to
    relinquish their share of the market .
(*) OJ Ko C 72 . ©f 24 March 1980, p. 8                         .
{**) The members of CEN and CENELB3 are the national standards institutes
     of the EFTA , Member States, Spain and Greece
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The prior exchange of information is therefore necessary to prevent the
various industries being oonfronted lay unexpected measures on the part of
partner countries .
How should this information be exchanged and what should the effect be?
A distinction should be made between standards drawn up by standards in­
stitutes and technical regulations adopted by governments .
1.  Standards
   a ) Standards are detailed , precise technical texts which cannot be
        drawn up rapidly, even by the largest national standards institutes .
        At the beginning of every year , each of these * institutes is aware of
        its work programme for the coming months , which can be very heavy since
      . some are obliged to cope with several hundred , and occasionally mote
        than a thousand , new standards a year .
        The Commission proposal requires details of the programmes to be sub­
        mitted to the Commission and the Member States .
   b ) This information must be in a form which makes comparative examination
        possible in order to allot* in-depth study of the pro grammes . The Com­
        mission is considering asking the GEN and the CENELEC to collect this
        information in a form which will facilitate comparison . There are
        advantages in assigning this role to the CENT' or the CENELEC ; since
        they are the umbrella organizations of the Community 's standards
        institutes , they should be able to obtain from among their membership
        adequate information and the services of experts capable of inte^>-
        preting the programmes submitted . With a minimum of effort , the CEIT
        should be able to develop an information network of the type which
        already exists within CENELEC where the latter fs own responsibilities   "
        are concerned . .
                                                                     • • i• •
 ---pagebreak---       The composition of these two bodies , however , is such that they cover
    . a wider geographical area than the Community.
      They should therefore establish appropriate internal procedures (which
      already exist to some extent in CENELEG ) "by which only institutes in the
      Member States can hold meetings on questions arising from Community
   . work programmes .
c ) Every quarter , each national institute will send the Commission the
      draft standards it has prepared , accompanied "by an assessment of their
      originality compared with international and European standards . The
      more a standard departs from internationally accepted specifications ,
      the more likely it is to create "barriers . The institute should also
      supply all the appropriate information of a general nature on the pro­
      gress of its work programme .
d ) Hence :-,
      - where a given subject is of interest to only a small number of in­
        stitutions , the latter may decide to draw up their national require­
        ments jointly ;          >
      - if it seems more appropriate to allow some institutes to draw up
        their proposed standards at national level any other institutes in­
        terested in the preparation of such texts may send passive observers 5
      - if a particular subject is of interest to the majority of the Member
        States , they can jointly draw up a European standard within the frame­
        work of the CEH or the CENELEC .
      In this case , a precise brief prepared by the Commission after consulting
      the main parties concerned will have to be sent to the European organi­
      zation ; for their part , the national bodies will refrain from taking
      action while work is in progress , at the European level .
 ---pagebreak--- «) In order to monitor the oorreot implementation of the abov ..antioned
    principles , the Commission would like to convene periodically and
    at least twice a year a standing committee the members of which
    would be appointed by the Member States . The Committee would examine
    reports received from the CEN and the CENELEC and , together with the
    national standards organizations , would attempt to provide solutions
    to the problem of barriers which might be created by some of the pro­
    posed national standards (e.g. , preparation of a European standard ,
    its amendment or the postponement of its introduction ).
    Although it does not expect these discussions and meetings to eliminate
    current problems completely and immediately, the Commission is convinced
    that a large number of difficulties can be overcome in this way. The mere
    fact that information on standards which are being drafted is available
    in sufficient time to enable the industries of the other Member States
    to prepare for their introduction can , in itself , eliminate a large
    proportion of the barriers which they would otherwise create .
National technical regulations
a ) In this case , the problem is different . Because these texts are generally
    less detailed , they can be drawn up much more rapidly than standards and
    their preparation is less centralized since a large number of govern­
    ment departments may, each in its own particular field , be responsible
    for drafting texts .
     It would therefore be difficult for governments to submit a programme
    relating to this field at the beginning of each year , since their ,
     intentions may be realized in a period of much less than a year in
    the absence of a definite work programme on the subject .
     On the other hand , because of their legally binding nature , technical
     regulations are even more likely to create barriers than standards .
     In recent years , some Member States have created serious adaptation
     problems for producers in the rest of the Community by charging their
     regulations at very short notice . This has been demonstrated by the
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           appreciable reduction over several months of exports to one such
           state in the sectors concerned .
           It is therefore necessary to provide information sufficiently in
           advance of the adoption of such measures .
       b ) In 1969 } "tiie Member States themselves raised this problem in the
           Council , seeking to arrive at a solution within the framework of
           the Agreement providing for standstill and notification to the
           Commission . Experience gained over ten years has shown that ,
           although this agreement has proved well worth while , it needs to
           be supplemented in several respects .
B. AMMDMEHT OF THE STANDSTILL AGREEMENT
   1 . First , it is necessary tinder the agreement to inform the Member States
       and the Commission not only of draft technical regulations but also
       of any intention to prepare such a regulation . The drafts currently
       submitted to the Commission which forwards them to the other Member
       States are in many cases already in a more or less definitive form ,
       lacking only a ratifying signature , which is sometimes provided in
       the next few days . It is almost impossible to exert any influence on
       the content of these texts . It would often be advisable to act while
       they are being prepared , before they have been finalized , in order
       to warn the Member States of any aspect of importance as regards the
       free movement of goods .                                         -
   2 . It is also important that the time limits laid down in the 19&9 Agree­
       ment should be extended so as to apply to all industrial products and
       not merely    to those covered by the General Programme drawn up at
       that date .
       Current priority areas "may no longer include sectors which were re­
       garded as priority areas ten years ago . During these ten years , numerous
                                                                          • • /• •
 ---pagebreak---                                          9
         considerations have led the Member States to adopt technical regu­
         lations as a result of greater awareness of such questions as the
         environment , consumer protection and the rational use of energy.
         Since it is difficult to predict where the main areas of concern
         will lie in the future , it is important to cover all products and
         the corresponding technical regulations which may affect their
         marketing.                 ,
    3 . Experience has shown that the deadlines imposed on the Commission
         and the Council , especially the latter , are too short following the
         amendments made in 1973 (*)• It has "been difficult for the Commission
         to meet these deadlines , so that it has only managed to comply with
         them in rare instances ; the Council , for it ^ part , has never "been
         able to meet the deadlines which it has set for itself .
         While the Commission is aware of the Member States' desire for' speed
          in this matter , it hopes that notification of intentions to legis­
          late will make it possible to commence work at Community level at an
          early stage so that proposals can be drawn up rapidly. Accordingly,
         the Commission is only proposing a limited extention of the deadlines .
        \                      y
                       *
 V. CONCLUSION                                                                  '
    This proposal for a Council Decision will supplement the activities al­
    ready undertaken in pursuance of the resolutions which formed the 1969
    General Programme . It relates to the acquisition and dissemination of
    greater information in respect of national standards and technical regu­
    lations which are in the course of preparation and the establishment of
    procedures for the management of this information in order to obviate
    any adverse effects on the movement of goods .
                                                                       • %J9 m
(*) ÛJ No C 9 of 15 March 1973 , p. 3
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The Commission requests thai: the Council , when adopting the proposal ,
formally take note of the Commission 's statement laying down the proce­
dures for its implementation . The Commission does not have at its dis­
posal a sufficient number of suitably qualified staff for the proper
implementation of the decision as regards comparative study of national
standards . As has "been pointed out , however , such staff are available
in the national standards bodies which are affiliated to the CM and
the CEtJELEC . It therefore seems reasonable to assign to them a cer­
tain number of tasks in this field , and the Commission intends to no­
tify the Council of its decisions on this subject .
The Commission does not expect these measures to bring about the immediate
removal of all technical barriers to trade . Other barriers derive from the
Member States' certification requirements and being actively examined in
cooperation with the senior officials responsible for standardization .
It is probable that different procedures will be required to solve this
entirely separate problem.
Moreover , the establishment and the actual management of the information
                                                        *
system which the Commission wishes to introduce will undoubtedly call for
efforts on the part of the Commission, the Member States and the starr-
                                                         I
dards organizations concerned .
Nevertheless , ~the Commission is convinced that adoption by the Council ,
of the attached decision, indicating the intention of the ^Commission ,
the Council and the Member States to take all possible measures to ensure
its proper implementation , will constitute a significant atage in the process
of removing technical barriers to trade and will consequently represent
a further step towards the achievement of the Community 's internal market .
                               /
 ---pagebreak---   THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEA.N COMMUNITIES,             '
  Having regard -to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
  and, in particular Article 213 thereof,
                                                                  s
  Having regard "to "the proposal from the Connnission,
 Whereas the prohibition of quantitative restrictions on the movement of
  goods and of measures having an equivalent effect is one of the basic
 principles of the Community;
 Whereas technical regulations relating to products, where they impede the
free movement of goods Legally manufactured and sold in a Member State,are
 lawful only if they are necessary in order to meet essential requirements
 and have an objective in the public interest of which they constitute the
 main guarantee :
                        •                                            *
 Whereas it is essential for the Commission to have the necessary preliminary
 information at its disposal ;      whereas consequently the Member States ,
which are required to facilitate the achievement of its task pursuant to
Article 5 of the EEC Treaty, must notify it of their intentions and projects
 in the field of technical regulations ;
Whereas all the Member States must also be informed of the technical regu­
lations contemplated by any one Member State ;
Whereas the Commission and the Member States must also be allowed sufficient
time in which to propose amendments to a contemplated measure , in order to
remove or reduce any barriers which it might create to the free movement
of goods ,
Whereas the Commission must also have the option of proposing or adopting a
Community directive governing the subject of the national measure contem­
plated ;
 ---pagebreak---                                        - 2 -
Whereas , in the "two instances set out above , the Member State in question
must , pursuant to the general obligations laid doxvn in Article 5 of the
 Treaty, defer . implementation of the . contemplated measure for a period
 sufficient to allow either /joint examination of the proposed amendments
     . the
 or 'preparation of the proposal for a directive or of a Community direc­
tive ; and whereas the time limits laid down in the Agreement of the
Representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting in the
 Council of 28 May 1969 providing for standstill and notification to the
                 X           ...    .. .      • . ■       .       /2
 Commission ( ),as amended by the Agreement of 5 March 1973 ( ), have proved
inadequate in the cases concerned and should accordingly be extended ;
Whereas , in practice , national technical standards may have the same effects
on the free movement of goods as technical regulations ;
Whereas it would therefore appear         necessary to inform the Commission of
draft standards under similar conditions to those which apply to technical
regulations ;      whereas ,   pursuant to Article 213 of the EEC Treaty, the -
Commission may, within the limits and under the conditions laid down by
the Council in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty , col lect any infor­
mation and carry out any checks required for the performance of the tasks
 entrusted to itj            1
Whereas it is also necessary for the Member States and their standards
institutions to be informed of standards contemplated by standards institutions
in the other Member States :
                                 «                                    "           I
Whereas it is necessary to set up within the Commission a Standing Committee ,
the members of which will be appointed by the Member States with the task of
 ( )     GJ C 76a 17.6.1969 , p . 9 .
 ( 2 ) OJ C 9 , 15.3.1973, p . 3 .
 ---pagebreak---                                          - 3 -
helping the Commission -to examine draft national standards and cooperating
in its efforts to lessen any adverse effects thereof on the free movement
of goods ;
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                       Article 1
The Member States shall take all            measures necessary to ensure that the
competent national standards institutions submit their standards pro­
grammes to the Commission annually not later than 31 January . A list of
relevant bodies is annexed hereto . The Commission may amend or supplement
such list .
                                            !
                                       Article 2
Before 1 March       each year , the Commission shall make available to the
Member States and national standards institutions the programmes whi ch have
been communicated to it in a form tfhich makes possible the comparison of
these various programmes .
                                    . Article 3
The Member States shall ensure that , before 1 May each year , their standards
institutions inform the Commission whether they wish
- to enjoy associate status ; or
- to participate by sending an observer to activities planned by other ,
   standards institutions ; or        -
- a European standard to be prepared on a given subject .
                                        Article 4
The Member States shall ensure that their standards institutions inform the
 ot;:er standards institutions and the Commission of their draft standards each
 quarter , stating :     ;
£.) whether the standard in question is merely the transposition of an
     existing international or European standard ,
                                                                        • • /• •
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b ) whether the standard in question is the transposition of an existing
     international or European standard with a number of amendments ,
c ) whether the standard in question is of national origin and represents :
     – the amendment of an existing standard :
     - a new standard .
                                  Article 5
Within the Commission , a Standing Committee shall be set up, the members
of which shall "be appointed "by the Member States . The Chairman and Secreta­
 riat of such Committee shall be representatives of the Commission .
                                  Article 6
The Commission shall submit a report within the Coromittee on :
- requests for information and cooperation made by        national standards,
   institutions ;
– whether a European standard is possible, and if .so , how it should be
   drawn up .
                                  Article 7
The Committee shall meet at least twice a year with the national standards
 institutions in order to :
– consider jointly objections made by Member States , the Commission , stan­
    dards institutions ,  industrial associations or individuals to any
   draft standard: or standard which has been adopted ;
– propose , where appropriate , that the Commission draw up terms of reference
   for the purposes of establishing a European standard .
                                                                    • •j • ■
 ---pagebreak---                                    Article 8
The Mainber Statae shall take all appropriate measure 8 to sneuru that their
          institutions
standards     '    undertake not to draw up or introduce national standards
on a subject covered by terms of reference . This undertaking shall lapse unless a
European standard has been introduced within six months of the final time­
table date laid down in the terms of reference , Thi s timetable may be extended
by agreement between the parties concerned meeting in the Committee .
                                  Article 9
The Member States shall forward to the Commission :
- a brief communication notifying their intention of drawing up technical
   regulations relating to certain industrial products ;
– all draft technical regulations relating to industrial products ,
stating the essential requi rements which have led them to contemplate such
measures .                                                              *
The Commission shall inform the other Member States of the notifications of
intent " and draft regulations which have been forwarded to it .
It may also submit them to the Committee for an                             .
opinion .
                                  Article 10
1 . The Member States shall postpone the adoption of draft technical regulations
    for six months from the date of thei r communi cations as provided for in Arti c I
    if the Commission or another Member State delivers a reasoned opinion
    within two months of that date to the effect that the contemplated measure
    should be amended in order to remove or reduce any barriers which it might
    create to the free movement of goods .
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2 . This period shall "be extended to twelve months if, within two months
    of the s©rufittniQ&tion|3 revised far in Artiola 9 , th» ComaiBei en notifies
    its intention to propose or adopt a directive on the subject .
                                      Article 11
 This Decision is addressed to the Memoer States .
 ---pagebreak---                               DECLARATION BY THE COMMISSION
                           appended to the Council Decision
          Laying down a procedure for the provision of Informatic-        in
          the field of technical standards and regulations
The Comnm ssion ,
- Being aware of the need to improve the provision of information within
  the Community concerning the preparation ,and final establishment of
  standards relating to industrial products drawn up by the standards ■
  institutions of the Member States ;
- Having regard to the Council Decision relating to technical standards
  and regulations - which assigns it a number of tasks in this field ;
                                                                       V.
- Whereas it cannot , at present , provide the necessary qualified staff
  from within its own departments to implement such Decision ; *
- Whereas all the standards institutions of the Member States are "
  members of the European Committee for Standardization ( CEN ) and the
  European ,E lectrotechni ca I Standardization Committee ( CENELEC ); whereas
  those committees are empowered to make a comparison and critical
  examination of texts relating to standards ,
hereby declares :
- As part of the duties assigned-to it by the Council Decision on
  technical standards and regulations , the Commission intends to
  conclude a subcontract with the CEN and the CENELEC .
  Such contract will provide inter alia for :
  . the transmission to these institutions of the information provided
     for in Article 1 of the Decision in cases where such information
     has not been supplied directly to them ;
 ---pagebreak--- the presentation of these programmes by the CEN -and the CENELEC in a form
      in which thsy csui "be compared, as provided for in Article 2 ;
                                                                          r~
      the provision of information to the CILN and the CENELEC concerning
      requests made- by the Member States pursuant ' to Article 3 ;
the communication to the CETT and the CENELEC of the information supplied
      by the Member States pursuant to Article 4 where such information has
      not been supplied directly;
the preparation by the CEN and the CENELEC of the report provided for in
      Article 6 ;
the participation by the CEN and the CENELEC in the activities of the
      Committee referred to in Article 5 when the latter discusses the
       matters    referred to in Article 7 >             '
 the preparation by the CETT or the CENELEC of the European standards to be
      drawn up on        basis Gf the terms of reference referred to in Article 7 »
– The Commission will examine whether it is necessary to amend or supplement
  , the contract drawn up with the CEN and the CENELEC in the light of the re­
    sults obtained during the first year(s ) of implementation of the Decision.
 ---pagebreak---                                                                   – " ANNEX
List of the national standards . institutions of the Member States of .the
                           European Communities    ;    –1
AFNQR ( France )           Association Française de Normalisation
                           Tour Europe - Cédex 7
                           F - 92080 PARIS LA DEFENSE
BSI ( United Kingdom)      British Standards Institution
                           2 , Park Street
                           GB - LONDON W1A 2BS
DS ( Danmark )             Dansk Standardiseringsråd
                           Aurehøjvej 12
                           Postboks 77
                           DK - 2900 HELLERUP 12
DIN ( Deutschland )        Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V.
                           Burggrafenstrasse 4-10
                           Postfach 1107
                           D - 1000 BERLIN 30
IBN / BIN '              ' Institut Belge de Normalisation
 ( Belgique-België )       Belgisch Instituut voor Normalisatie
                           29 , avenue de la Brabançonne ( laan )
                           B - 1040 BRUXELLES / BRUSSEL
IIRS ( Ireland )           Institute for Industrial Research and Standards
                           Ballymun Road
                           EI - DUBLIN 9
NNI ( Nederland )          Nederlands Normalisatie-Instituut
                           Polakweg 5 - Postbus 5810
                           NL - 2280 HV RIJSWIJK ZH
UNI ( Italia )            Ente Nazionale Italiano di Unificazione
                          Piazza Armando Diaz 2
                           I - 20123 MILANO