5 Amendments of Robert ROCHEFORT related to 2010/2051(INI)
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that the European Union and Member States should make it possible to take greater account of the interests of SMEs and craft enterprises when drawing up standards by implementing the strategic measures contained in the 'Small Business Act', in accordance with its seventh principle: EU financial support, cutting the cost of access to standards, the systematic publication of abstracts of European standards, and the equitable composition of standardisation committees;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses the need, which has been recognised since the 1990s, to ensure direct participation by SMEs, craft enterprises and societal stakeholders at European level in order to reflect their views more effectively, given that their representation on national technical committees remains weak; affirms that, as very limited progress has been made to increase participation by SMEs, craft enterprises and societal stakeholder participations at national level, financial and political support for the European organisations established to represent such stakeholders needs to be maintained at least in the period to 2020;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Welcomes 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; considers however that the industry category should be represented, where appropriate, by a second expert representing SMEs;
Amendment 85 #
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 financial support to SMEs, craft enterprises and weaker societal stakeholders in order to facilitate their participation;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Recognises that fora and consortia contribute considerably to the standardisation system by providing specifications with global relevance, which are often more receptive to innovative technologies; points out that, most notably in the ICT sector, a number of fora and consortia have evolved into global organisations producing widely implemented specifications on the basis of open, transparent and consensus-based development processes; believes that the ESOs and fora/consortia must find ways of cooperating in planning their activities by transferring standards to the most appropriate level, international or European, in order to ensure coherence and avoid fragmentation or duplication; calls on the ESOs to develop and implement an improved mechanism for the adoption of fora/consortia specifications as European standards, which should not restrict the possibility of submitting them directly to international standards organisations in order to seek more global status, provided that this complies with the principles set out in the World Trade Organization's agreement on technical barriers to trade: transparency, openness, impartiality, consensus, efficiency, relevance and consistency;