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Billy Wrote> >>The idea of legislating for scuba cylinder >>valves with external (exposed) threads is >>a piece of fuckwittery. Who at CEN pushes >>this shit? >>Do you have an email address for CEN? At 02:49 PM 17/03/1996 +0100, Sten Meyer wrote: >I think it is time to explain how the European standards are put together. >>The work on an EN starts with a proposal from a member country and then >interested countries join. The work then continues on the national level an >each country expresses an opinion about the proposal. The secritariat then >rewrites the proposal and a new round is started. The secritariat is >usually run by the national standardisation organisation that initiated the >work. After several rounds the standard is voted and ratified as a EN. >Sometimes a preliminary norm prEN is issued when the work is timeconsuming, >and the memberstates needs a guideline. Oh my God! Organised fuckwittery! > When the >standardisation moves on to technical diving the technical comunity must >get its own representatives in the system. Otherwise the manufacturers can >set the standards and whats good for them is not always good for us. > >To answer the question, find your national standardisation organisation and >ask them of the names on the committee dealing with standards regarding >divning equipment. >I hope this gives you some idea of how EN's are written. Thank you Sten. It sounds horrible. Is it true that the European bureacracy outnumbers the real work-force? And do small European wars need ENs or can you have one without involving every committee in Europe? rgrds billyW
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