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". – The Commission is fully aware of the importance of the participation of consumer representatives in the standardisation of work. The importance of the participation of all interested parties in the process has been recognised in several resolutions and communications. The Commission is actively supporting this through different initiatives. In particular, the Commission gives important annual financing support, amounting to EUR 830 000 in 2001, to the European Association for the Coordination of Consumer Representation in Standardisation – the organisation known as ANEC.
It is also important that consumer organisations identify this subject as a priority in order to allocate the necessary resources. The Commission also encourages the Member States and the standardisation bodies to facilitate the participation of consumers in the standardisation process, at national level as well.
The general product safety directive, which aims at ensuring that products placed on the market are safe, gives a specific role to European standards. This role is reinforced in the new version which is about to be adopted by the Council and the European Parliament. In order to elaborate these standards the Commission will give to the European standardisation bodies standardisation mandates in which the level of safety to be achieved will be specified. Consumer organisations will be consulted on the content of the mandates. The Commission will verify that the standards developed comply with the requirements of the directive and the mandates, both when it comes to aspects related to safety and to the participation of consumers, before the publication of the references of the standards in the Official Journal.
The Commission will carefully check that all the standardisation mandates under the directive, in particular those relating to children's products, are satisfactorily executed."@en1
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