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Post Brexit - Why are we still permitting CENELEC etc to influence how we govern our own engineering affairs?

whjohnson

There seems to be a repeating mantra throughout the youtube presentation which becomes irksome if you listen for long enough. It seems that we just adopt, or rather 'harmonize' without question and then defer the responsibility for decision making back to CENELEC rather than think it through and act for ourselves.

How is it that we allow the tail to wag the dog? Isn't it time that we departed from harmonization and went our own way?

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    Suspect there is still an amount of national leeway where it's needed/wanted - after all we still have rings and reduced c.p.c.s on small circuits that most of the rest of the CENELEC world prohibit and the relatively recent fire resistant cable supports appears to be a UK only idea.

    In a world where things are designed once, manufactured in bulk and sold worldwide there's more than a little advantage in having common standards - and many of the standards are so intertwined at a technical level there's a significant risk of creating a can of worms if you start trying to tweak one or two in isolation to any great significance. If you think BSs are expensive now, just imagine what they'd cost if BSI had to generate all their contents from scratch rather than being able to copy & paste 80% of it. Also there must be some advantage to the UK of being in CENELEC and having at least one vote on what happens, rather than relinquishing all control and then having possibly even less UK friendly versions imposed on us de-facto by market forces anyway.

       - Andy.

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    Suspect there is still an amount of national leeway where it's needed/wanted - after all we still have rings and reduced c.p.c.s on small circuits that most of the rest of the CENELEC world prohibit and the relatively recent fire resistant cable supports appears to be a UK only idea.

    In a world where things are designed once, manufactured in bulk and sold worldwide there's more than a little advantage in having common standards - and many of the standards are so intertwined at a technical level there's a significant risk of creating a can of worms if you start trying to tweak one or two in isolation to any great significance. If you think BSs are expensive now, just imagine what they'd cost if BSI had to generate all their contents from scratch rather than being able to copy & paste 80% of it. Also there must be some advantage to the UK of being in CENELEC and having at least one vote on what happens, rather than relinquishing all control and then having possibly even less UK friendly versions imposed on us de-facto by market forces anyway.

       - Andy.

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