Article 1
Open ↗Article 10 of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 is amended as follows: (1) paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘1. The Commission may, within the limitations of the competences laid down in the Treaties, request that one or more European standardisation organisations draft a European standard or European standardisation deliverable within a set deadline, provided that the European standardisation organisation concerned complies with paragraph 2a. European standards and European standardisation deliverables shall be market-driven, take into account the public interest as well as the policy objectives clearly stated in the Commission’s request and be based on consensus. The Commission shall determine the requirements as to the content to be met by the requested document and a deadline for its adoption.’ ; (2) the following paragraph is inserted: ‘2a. Without prejudice to other advisory opinions, each European standardisation organisation shall ensure that the following decisions concerning European standards and European standardisation deliverables referred to in paragraph 1 are taken exclusively by representatives of the national standardisation bodies within the competent decision-making body of that organisation: (a) decisions on the acceptance and refusal of standardisation requests; (b) decisions on the acceptance of new work items that are needed for the fulfilment of the standardisation request; and (c) decisions on the adoption, revision and withdrawal of European standards or European standardisation deliverables.’ .