96/139/EC: Commission Decision of 24 January 1996 amending the list of national standardization bodies in Annex II to Council Directive 83/189/EEC

COMMISSION DECISION of 24 January 1996 amending the list of national standardization bodies in Annex II to Council Directive 83/189/EEC (96/139/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden to the European Union on 1 January 1995,
Having regard to Council Directive 83/189/EEC of 28 March 1983 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations (1), as last amended by Directive 94/10/EC of the European Parliament and the Council (2), and notably Article 2, paragraph 4 thereof,
Having regard to the opinion of the Standing Committee set up by Article 5 of Directive 83/189/EEC,
Whereas Commission Decision 92/400/EEC (3) amended the list of standards institutions annexed to Directive 83/189/EEC so as to include the European Telecommunications Standards Institute ETSI as a European Standardization Institution;
Whereas the Council Resolution of 18 June 1992 on the role of European standardization in the European economy (92/C 073/01) (4) reiterates the importance of a cohesive system of European standards, organized by and for the parties concerned, based on transparency, openness, consensus, independence of vested interests, efficiency and decision taking on the basis of national representations;
Whereas the aforementioned Council Resolution indicates the intention of continuing, wherever possible, the New Approach set out in its Resolution of 7 May 1985 (5) for the implementation of the Community's technical harmonization of the Community's technical harmonization policy, and stresses the need to increase the effective availability of European standards at national level through their systematic transposition into national standards;
Whereas the aforementioned Council Resolution invites Member States to take all appropriate measures to encourage their national standards organizations to comply with the common rules of European standards organizations of which they are members and take effective part in European standardization discussions;
Whereas ETSI requires the nomination of one or more recognized national standards organizations having the exclusive responsibility for carrying out the requirements for standstill, public enquiry, the establishment of the national position for the vote and transposition at national level of ETSI standards,