4. Notification of draft standards

All new draft national standards and technical regulations are notified to the Commission at European level and to the WTO at international level (see Note).

Note :

In this way, any new draft standard is public and should not be superimposed on an existing standard. This should prevent the juxtaposition of competing standards. In reality, however, this is more complicated. A new standard, on a type of bolt for example, can be seen as a competing standard...