Article 48Amendments to Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012

Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 is amended as follows:

(1)

in Article 10, the following paragraph is added:

‘7. Where a European standard drafted in support of Regulation (EU) 2023/988 of the European Parliament and of the Council (*1) satisfies the general safety requirement laid down in Article 5 of that Regulation and the specific safety requirements referred to in Article 7(2) of that Regulation, the Commission shall publish a reference to that European standard without delay in the Official Journal of the European Union.

(2)

in Article 11, paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 are replaced by the following:

‘1. When a Member State or the European Parliament considers that a harmonised standard or European standard drafted in support of Regulation (EU) 2023/988 does not entirely satisfy the requirements which it aims to cover and which are set out in the relevant Union harmonisation legislation or in that Regulation, it shall inform the Commission thereof with a detailed explanation. The Commission shall, after consulting the committee set up by the corresponding Union harmonisation legislation, if it exists, or the committee set up by that Regulation, or after other forms of consultation of sectoral experts, decide:

(a)

to publish, not to publish or to publish with restriction the references to the harmonised standard or European standard concerned drafted in support of that Regulation in the Official Journal of the European Union; and

(b)

to maintain, to maintain with restriction or to withdraw the references to the harmonised standard or European standard concerned drafted in support of that Regulation in or from the Official Journal of the European Union.

2. The Commission shall publish information on its website on the harmonised standards and European standards drafted in support of Regulation (EU) 2023/988 that have been subject to a decision pursuant to paragraph 1.

3. The Commission shall inform the European standardisation organisation concerned of any decision adopted pursuant to paragraph 1 and, if necessary, request the revision of the harmonised standards or of the European standards concerned drafted in support of Regulation (EU) 2023/988.’