5 Amendments of Hans-Peter MAYER related to 2011/0150(COD)
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 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).