General legislative framework

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Directive 98/34/EC

Directive 98/34/EC [212 KB] of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations
Directive 98/48/EC [61 KB] of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 July 1998 amending Directive 98/34/EC
Council Directive 2006/96/EC [382 KB] of 20 November 2006 amending Directive 98/34/EC in the field of free movement of goods, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania
Consolidated version of Directive 98/34/EC [106 KB] of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and of rules on Information Society services. This non-official document is meant purely as a documentation tool and the institutions do not assume any liability for its contents.

Decision No 1673/2006/EC [62 KB] of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 2006 on the financing of European standardisation
Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financing of European standardisation COM (2005) 377 final [163 KB]
The proposal is accompanied by a Commission Staff Working Document [41 KB] : 'Annex to the Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financing of European standardisation - Ex-ante evaluation' - SEC (2005) 1050 final.
The proposal was adopted by the Commission on 2005-08-19.

General guidelines [75 KB] for the co-operation between CEN, CENELEC and ETSI and the European Commission and the European Free Trade Association were adopted and signed on 28 March 2003.