The topics identified worth remembering during the concluding reflection on the training on 23rd of November in New Delhi were:
- The definitions of "standards" and "technical regulations
- The difference between "mandatory standars" (=technical regulations) and "voluntary standards"
- The concept "presumption of conformity"
- What is required for the elaboration of technical regulations
- The method of transposing harmonised European standards (EN/HD) into national standards
- The lack of specification by the WTO TBT-committee which standards organisations are international standards organisations
- The CEN/CENELEC process to developed standards to be regarded as Hamonised standards by the European Commission publishing indicative references to them in the Official Journal of the EU
- The legal aspects of standards and technical regulations
- The New Approach Directives
- The need for regulators to consider any other measures (like voluntary standards) available before the elaboration of a technical regulation
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