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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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    I am more concerned about the prospect of rubber stamping rather than questioning the need.

    As I understand it, the UK isn't just rubber stamping things that arrive out of the blue - we have representation at CENELEC and IEC levels so (in principle at least) had just as much say in what was originally written as anyone else.

        - Andy.

  • 0 in reply to AJJewsbury

    Andy, we were but one of 27 in the eu, and with QMV we stood no chance of getting things we wanted done - that's one of the reasons why we left. Does this mirror across to CENELEC too? It concerns me that we tend to opt for the easiest but not necessarily the best options and just adopt and worst still 'Gold Plate' existing stuff in order to 'harmonize' without thinking things through, especially the extra costs to the end user of doing so. For example, where did the notion for afdds come from? EU manufacturers perchance?

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    Andy, we were but one of 27 in the eu, and with QMV we stood no chance of getting things we wanted done - that's one of the reasons why we left. Does this mirror across to CENELEC too? It concerns me that we tend to opt for the easiest but not necessarily the best options and just adopt and worst still 'Gold Plate' existing stuff in order to 'harmonize' without thinking things through, especially the extra costs to the end user of doing so. For example, where did the notion for afdds come from? EU manufacturers perchance?

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