14 Amendments of Andreas SCHWAB related to 2011/0150(COD)
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13 a (new)
Recital 13 a (new)
(13a) It is important, to this effect, to encourage the exchange of best practices between National Standardisation Organisations on how to best facilitate and enhance the participation of SMEs in standardisation activities.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 b (new)
Recital 15 b (new)
(15b) In most Member States, public authorities show a limited interest in participating in the standards development process, notwithstanding the importance of standardisation as a tool to support Union policies and legislation. This Regulation should therefore encourage the involvement of such authorities in all the national technical committees that deal with European standards being developed or revised at the request of the Commission. The participation of national authorities is particularly crucial for the proper functioning of legislation in the areas covered by the ‘New Approach’, and for the avoidance of ex-post objections to harmonised standards.
Amendment 112 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
This Regulation establishes rules with regard to the cooperation between European standardisation bodies, national standardisation bodies and the Commission, the establishment of European standards and European standardisation deliverables for products and for product-related services in support of Union legislation and policies, the recognition of technical specifications in the field of information and communication technologies (hereinafter “ICT”) and financing of European standardisation.
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
6. ‘product-related service’ means any self-employed economic activity normally provided for remrvice related to goods or digital content, such as assembly, installation, maintenance, repair or any other processing, provided by the seller of the goods or the supplier of the digital content underation, as referred to in Article 57 of the Treaty the sales contract, the contract for the supply of digital content or a separate related service contract which was concluded at the same time as the sales contract or the contract for the supply of digital content, with, however, the exception of: (i) transport services; (ii) training services, telecommunications support services; and (iii) financial services;
Amendment 149 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. During the preparation of a European standard or after its approval, National Standardisation Organisations shall not take any action which could prejudice the harmonisation intended and, in particular, shall not publish in the field in question a new or revised national standard which is not completely in line with any existing European standard. On publication of a new European standard, all conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn.
Amendment 173 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2
Article 5 – paragraph 2
2. European standardisation bodies shall ensurable an appropriate representation, at technical level, of undertakings, research centres, the Commission's Joint Research Centre, and universities and other legal entities, in standardisation activities concerning an emerging area with significant policy or technical innovation implications, if the legal entities concerned participated in a project that is related to that area and that is funded by the Union under a multiannual framework programme for activities in the area of research, innovation and technological development.
Amendment 179 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 a (new)
Article 5 a (new)
Article 5a Access of SMEs to standards 1. National standardisation organisations shall promote and facilitate the access of SMEs to standards and their development, in particular: (a) by making available free of charge on their website abstracts of standards; (b) through special prices for making standards available to SMEs and price reductions for packages of standards; (c) by identifying, in their annual work programmes, those standardisation projects which are of particular interest for SMEs; (d) through free access for SMEs to participation in the preparation of draft standards. 2. National standardisation organisations shall send an annual report to the European standardisation organisations with regard to their actions to comply with the requirements laid down in paragraph 1 and all other measures to improve the participation of SMEs in their standardisation activities. They shall publish that report on their website.
Amendment 183 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 c (new)
Article 5 c (new)
Article 5c Participation of public authorities in European standardisation Member States shall encourage the participation of public authorities, including market surveillance authorities, in national standardisation activities aimed at the development or revision of standards requested by the Commission in accordance with Article 7(1).
Amendment 207 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. When the Commission has not been informed of any objection to a harmonised standard or has considered that the objection is not justified, it shall publish it without delay in the Official Journal of European Union.
Amendment 218 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Either on proposal from a Member State, a public authority referred to in Directive 2004/18/EC or on its own initiative the Commission may decide to recogni, after consultation with the European Standardisation Organisations and relevant stakeholders, to use technical specifications which are not national, European or international standards and meet the requirements set out in Annex II, as ICT standards.
Amendment 224 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) the performance of preliminary or ancillary work in connection with European standardisation, including studies, cooperation activities, including international cooperation, seminars, evaluations, comparative analyses, research work, laboratory work, inter-laboratory tests, conformity evaluation work and measures to ensure that the periods for the development and the revision of European standards or European standardisation deliverables are shortened;
Amendment 227 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) the activities of the central secretariats of the European standardisation bodies, including policy development, the coordination of standardisation activities, international regulatory dialogue, the processing of technical work and the provision of information to interested parties;
Amendment 246 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) adapt the criteria for recognising standardthe use of technical specifications in the field of ICT set out in Annex II to technical developments;
Amendment 255 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 2
Article 21 – paragraph 2