In an own-initiative report adopted on Tuesday 28 March (38 votes in favour, one abstention), MEPs on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) broadly welcomed the Commission’s standardisation strategy (see EUROPE B12882A3).
They also made a series of recommendations in the text for further strengthening the Internal Market. MEPs say that standardisation bodies should, for example, harmonise their standards as much as possible to reduce fragmentation in the...