| On 7 May 2003 the European Commission issued a Communication to
the Council and the European Parliament on Enhancing the Implementation of the
New Approach Directives. It addresses questions to do with Notified Bodies,
Conformity Assessment, CE Marking, Market Surveillance and on the Consistent and
Effective Implementation of the relevant New Approach Directives (made under
what is now Article 95 of the Treaty). The Commission comes to conclusions in
each of these areas on how to make them more effective. A copy of the
Communication can be downloaded from:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/newapproach/index.htm
On 10 November 2003 the Competitiveness Council adopted a Council Resolution
responding to the Commission's Communication. The adopted draft can be
downloaded from:
http://register.consilium.eu.int/pdf/en/03/st14/st14289.en03.pdf
 (124 kb).
The Commission's Communication follows on from a consultation document
published on 7 January 2002 and the UK Government's response to the original
consultation is available as an Adobe Acrobat document
dtinar.pdf (171
kb).
A paper giving information on our initial reactions to the Communication is
here:
commentary.pdf
(16 kb).
The Commission is now working to prepare draft legislation in response to the
Council Resolution of November 2003. A number of working papers have been
produced and discussed with Member States but no formal proposals have been
produced as yet. For information on the Commission's latest working papers,
e-mail lisa.rogers@dti.gsi.gov.uk
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