The New Approach to Technical Harmonization and Standardization

Pelkmans, Jacques

doi:10.1111/j.1468-5965.1987.tb00294.x

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“…Moreover, the 1980s had seen the abandonment of attempts to create very detailed EU legislation to harmonise standards, using instead the 'new approach' of only setting minimum harmonisation standards. This left member states considerable discretion over implementation, especially of 're-regulatory' measures governing how competition should operate, such as interconnection or networks or licensing, and provision of services beyond competition such as universal service (Pelkmans 1987). 14 But variation in the forms of national regulatory authorities created problems of coordination throughout the EU (Interview with Commission official 1).…”

Section: Phase 2: Informal Network Of Independent Regulators (Niras)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reshaping european regulatory space: An evolutionary analysis

Thatcher¹,

Coen²

2008

West European Politics

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Section: Phase 2: Informal Network Of Independent Regulators (Niras)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reshaping european regulatory space: An evolutionary analysis

Thatcher¹,

Coen²

2008

West European Politics

204

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“…Moreover, the adoption of the old approach directives required unanimity in the Council of Ministers. These long delays resulted in ineffectiveness since national regulations were produced at a much faster rate than the production of harmonised EU directives (Pelkmans, 1987). Nevertheless, a number of old approach directives still remain in force covering a wide range of product groups such as pharmaceuticals, foodstuffs and motor vehicles.…”

Section: Technical Barriers To Trade and The Eu Instruments To Their mentioning

confidence: 99%

Border effects in the enlarged EU area: evidence from imports to accession countries

Manchin¹,

Pinna²

2009

Applied Economics

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By looking at imports of Eastern European countries, we provide novel insights on the importance and magnitude of border effects and on how they are linked with technical barriers to trade. All Central Eastern European Countries (CEECs) traded with themselves more than with other countries. We grouped products into three categories; depending on the importance of applicaple technical barriers. Our results show border effects are the largest for products, where we expect to have the most important technical barriers. We assess if border effects changed over the transition period and we find that for products where technical barriers are less important the magnitude of border effects was declining at the end of the 90s.

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“…During the early decades of the Common Market before the New Approach was adopted in 1985, technical barriers to trade were recognized as a major obstacle to economic integration, but efforts to establish harmonized European standards were frequently deadlocked. Political conflicts could be intense when the goal was the development of broad, mandatory European standards as individual Member States fought hard to push European-level standards in a direction that favored their domestic industries and to block the adoption of any new standards that conflicted with their existing national standards (Pelkmans 1987). Before the system was overhauled, negligible progress had been made in removing technical barriers to the growth of the internal market (McGee and Weatherill 1990, p. 582).…”

Section: Role Of Standards In Regulating Ict Marketsmentioning

confidence: 99%