5 Amendments of Bernadette VERGNAUD related to 2010/2051(INI)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses, however, that these principles are not in themselves sufficient to ensure that small and medium-sized enterprises and societal stakeholders – in particular those representing health and safety, consumer and environmental interests – are adequately represented in the standardisation process; considers, therefore, that a vital element is the addition of the principle of ‘balanced and appropriate representation’, given that it is of the utmost importance, whenever the public interest is concerned, to incorporate all stakeholder positions in a balanced manner as regards participation by societal stakeholders and SMEs in NSBs, but also by ensuring appropriate representation within ESOs, especially in the development of standards intenddesigned to support EU legislation and policies;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Supporggests, therefore,at the Commission’s intention to include encourage participants to develop service standards within the legal framework of European standardisation, as this will not only organisations (ESOs) – namely CEN, CENELEC and the European Telecom Standards Institute (ETSI) – in order to ensure the notification of all national service standards that could potentially constitute technical barriers to trade in the internal market, but also prov and ultimately to avoide a proper legal basis on which the Commission can request the European standardisation organisations (ESOs) – namely CEN, CENELEC and the European Telecom Standards Institute (ETSI) –s much as possible this fragmentation between different national standards; calls on the Commission to include service standards in the legal framework of European standardisation if the results obtained by ESOs on a voluntary basis prove to be insufficient, thus providing a legal basis that allows the Commission to ask ESOs to develop standards in the services sector;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. WelRecommesnds that ESOs observe and, where necessary, take into account recent developments in the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), in particular the model used to develop the ISO 26000 standard on social responsibility, in which national standards bodies were entitled to nominate to the respective working group only one representative from each of six stakeholder categories (industry, consumers, government, labour, NGO, SSRO (service, support, research and others)) that were identified, ensuring, where necessary, appropriate representation for weaker stakeholders, and taking care to avoid the unnecessary duplication of work already carried out at international level;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Urges Member States to ensure effective representation of all relevant stakeholders on national technical committees by establishing monitoring and reporting mechanisms and, where necessary, providing training and financial support to weaker societal stakeholders, including SMEs, in order to facilitate their participation;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Emphasises the need to safeguard and enhance Europe’sthe position of Europe and all its Member States in the international standardisation environment in order to promote the development of international standards with genuine global relevance, facilitate trade and increase European competitiveness;