European Standardisation Package (Consultation)

The options proposed for the implementation of the objectives are vague and only partly target-oriented. The major part of the proposals are even critical from an ordoliberal standpoint. It is particularly problematic that the Commission and national governments are to gain the ability to influence financial and human resources decisions which hitherto have been exclusively subject to the standardisation work of national institutes in the private economy sector. There is a fundamental risk that standards might be misused for industrial policy purposes.