Brussels wants to accelerate technical standards to facilitate the marketing of products in the EU

The European Commission proposed measures on Tuesday to accelerate and improve the creation of technical standards that determine the requirements products and services must meet to be sold across the European Union. The reform aims to reduce the time required to develop these standards from six to four years.

In addition to facilitating internal commercialization within the EU block, the initiative is designed to prevent technical standards crafted by China and other foreign powers from dominating and imposing themselves at the global level.