EuroCommerce on Standardization Regulation
Position paper - Environment, Sustainability & Energy
18 July 2025
We represent the retail and wholesale sectors, which are in most cases users of harmonised standards, not their developers. Nevertheless, our businesses depend on timely, transparent, international and practical standards to ensure legal compliance and interoperability of products.
The current standardisation processes—particularly as observed in the CEN/CENELEC JTC 24 work on the Digital Product Passport (DPP), or the CEN/CENELEC group work on AI Act standards —reveal procedural deficiencies that undermine accessibility, speed, efficiency, and balanced stakeholder participation.