In message <[email protected]>, dated Tue, 10
Jan 2006, Cortland Richmond <[email protected]> writes
>If or when standards are incorporated into laws, they should be
>incorporated by inclusion, not reference, of at least those parts of
>standards considered necessary for the operation of the laws concerned.
This was tried in Europe ('old approach Directives') and it did not
work. Some changes to standards are regarded by the industry concerned
as absolutely essential, such as to allow new technology to be used.
But in order to change anything, even in the 'standard' part, of an old
approach Directive, every member state has to change its own law
implementing that Directive. This could take at least a year, during
which time the relevant laws in the states were out-of-line - some had
changed while some had not. Furthermore, it involved explaining the
technical changes and their necessity to the legislators, some of whom
might well be motivated for disassociated, political reasons, not to
agree with the changes. It simply didn't work.
This old approach was tried again for the Automotive Directive, possibly
due to excessive conservatism, and I strongly suspect it is regretted
now.
>
>This is especially so for regulations subject to public review and
>comment, since inclusion of documents unavailable except by purchase
>subverts the intent of public review and comment.
All IEC members states are required to make at least one draft version
of every standard available for public comment before it is finally
voted on. A SMALL charge is made in most countries, basically just to
cover costs.
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