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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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    whjohnson said:
    It seems that we just adopt, or rather 'harmonize' without question

    Not the case, UK national committees do respond to international work, and Harmonized Documents are put out for public comment before adoption (including the harmonized parts of the international documents that go into BS 7671 - HD 60364 series). There is definitely question and comment.

    Once the HDs are agreed, though, we do have a specified timescale to adopt them in our national standard (BS 7671 in this case).

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    gkenyon said:
    Once the HDs are agreed, though, we do have a specified timescale to adopt them in our national standard (BS 7671 in this case).

    I fully agree Graham, and I think that this is where the misunderstanding arises. As a member of CENELEC we (or at least BSI) are required to implement/adopt the harmonized standards and just as importantly we have to ensure there is no conflict with published National Standards. This means that BS 7671 has to be updated if the HD 60364 series is amended so we don't have the option of leaving the wiring regs alone for a decade.

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    gkenyon said:
    Once the HDs are agreed, though, we do have a specified timescale to adopt them in our national standard (BS 7671 in this case).

    I fully agree Graham, and I think that this is where the misunderstanding arises. As a member of CENELEC we (or at least BSI) are required to implement/adopt the harmonized standards and just as importantly we have to ensure there is no conflict with published National Standards. This means that BS 7671 has to be updated if the HD 60364 series is amended so we don't have the option of leaving the wiring regs alone for a decade.

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