Article 2
1. The following provisions shall apply where products or certain aspects of products have not yet been harmonized at Community level: (a) if a Member State proposes to agree that compliance with its national technical regulations and standards shall be determined on the basis of tests, certificates or marks issued by the competent authorities of a third country under its procedures, it shall so inform the Commission and the other Member States, stating its reasons; (b) as regards the reciprocal recognition of checks by Member States, the Commission shall request information from the Member States on the possibility of enabling compliance with national technical regulations and standards to be determined on the basis of test results, certificates or marks issued by the competent authorities of other Member States. 2. The following provisions shall apply where Directives have already been adopted or proposed: (a) the Commission shall examine the extent to which it is able to propose amendments to Directives already adopted in order to enable compliance with those Directives to be determined on the basis of test results, certificates or marks of conformity issued by the competent authorities of third countries; (b) when preparing new proposals for Directives, the Commission shall consider the extent to which such proposals could enable compliance with those Directives to be determined on the basis of the test results, certificates or marks referred to in (a). TITLE III Action in the event of non-reciprocity