Chapter II. The procedure for the provision of information with regard to standards

The provision of information to the Commission and the standardisation bodies on new subjects in the national standards programmes (Article 2)

1. The Commission and the standardisation bodies referred to in Annexes I and II shall be informed of the new subjects for which the national bodies referred to in Annex II have decided, by including them in their standards programme, to prepare or amend a standard, unless it is an identical or equivalent transposition of an international or European standard.

Article 2 stipulates that the procedure for the provision of information in the field of standards is limited to new work which the national standardisation bodies are planning to initiate, at the time of its inclusion in the standards programme, in other words at a sufficiently early stage to enable interested sectors in the various Member States to take part and their comments to be taken into account.

These new initiatives must be communicated under Directive 98/34/EC, whether their objective is to establish a new standard or amend an existing standard - but only if...

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