The European standardization bodies CEN and CENELEC developed a response to the consultation launched by the European Commission on its proposal for the revision of the Construction Products Regulation (CPR).
The CEN/CENELEC position includes the following proposals:
- Standards containing requirements for construction works should no longer be mandatory, but - as is usual in internal market law according to the New Legal Framework - should be applied voluntarily and give rise to the presumption of conformity.
- The new specific product requirements should be specified directily in standardization requests instead of having them defined first in delegated acts
- The development of delegated acts should be exceptional and used in limited cases as a fall-back solution instead of as an alternative solution equal to harmonized standards (hEN).
- Standardization requests should formulated flexibly and should not prescribe precise essential characteristics that could soon fall behind the state of the art.
Source: CEN/CENELEC cenelec press release including a link to their position
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