Brussels, 16/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - During a seminary on standardisation held on World Standards Day, the European Commission's Director General for Enterprise, Jean-Paul Mingasson, stressed the important role played by European standards, with more than 14,000 today. He explained that this helped to move the "centre of gravity" in the activities of national standards organisations towards those of European bodies. But he was also critical of the slowness in the adoption of these...