Would the engineering community support a second referendum?

Which for companies that want to export to the EU now means two different certifications. (Yes I am of course aware that this is already the case  for companies that export to both the EU and the US, but I'm not sure that making a problem even worse is a good thing!)


What I suspect will happen practically is that for many years we will simply carrying on following EU standards adopted into UK legislation as a: this supports companies that want to supply both territories and b: we frankly don't have the resource to draft new standards very quickly. Anyone who's sat on standards committees knows it is (necessarily to get it right) a sloooooow process. So we'll be following the same standards, we just won't have any say in them any more - even so this is probably the best scenario.


As I said on another thread somewhere, from my absolutely personal point of view producing a load of UK specific standards is a cracking idea, it should see me nicely into retirement! But I think there are rather more important things the engineering community really needs to be doing.


Excellent points,


Many thanks,


Andy

Which for companies that want to export to the EU now means two different certifications. (Yes I am of course aware that this is already the case  for companies that export to both the EU and the US, but I'm not sure that making a problem even worse is a good thing!)


What I suspect will happen practically is that for many years we will simply carrying on following EU standards adopted into UK legislation as a: this supports companies that want to supply both territories and b: we frankly don't have the resource to draft new standards very quickly. Anyone who's sat on standards committees knows it is (necessarily to get it right) a sloooooow process. So we'll be following the same standards, we just won't have any say in them any more - even so this is probably the best scenario.


As I said on another thread somewhere, from my absolutely personal point of view producing a load of UK specific standards is a cracking idea, it should see me nicely into retirement! But I think there are rather more important things the engineering community really needs to be doing.


Excellent points,


Many thanks,


Andy