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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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    BSI are the UK member of CENELEC making a significant contribution to the development of Standards and CENELEC are not the EU but have a rather larger membership. However the important factor is that if we removed ourselves from CENELEC and had different standards for UK and the rest of Europe then our manufacturers would need two production lines, one for domestic products and one for export products. How would this be sensible.

  • 0 in reply to Alasdair Anderson

    I am thinking more of regulations and practises rather than products. We do not need to harmonise the wiring regulations.

    By all means continue to spend lots of expensive time discussing standards for light bulbs, but please leave the wiring regulations alone for a decade or so in order that we can regain some semblance of order and clarity.

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  • 0 in reply to Alasdair Anderson

    I am thinking more of regulations and practises rather than products. We do not need to harmonise the wiring regulations.

    By all means continue to spend lots of expensive time discussing standards for light bulbs, but please leave the wiring regulations alone for a decade or so in order that we can regain some semblance of order and clarity.

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