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Why do you lose a say over global standards? Surely you now represent yourselves directly on global standards bodies, instead of indirectly via the EU's common
by hathathat 9y ago
Why do you lose a say over global standards? Surely you now represent yourselves directly on global standards bodies, instead of indirectly via the EU's common position?
- croon 9y agoBecause like a human is less influential than a country, so is a country less influential than 28 countries.
- blibble 9y ago28 countries that can barely agree that the sun rises every day
- 7952 9y agoWhich is why you need a formal political process! If everyone already agreed on everything then there wouldn't be much point
- bartread 9y agoThat's hardly an unreasonable situation given that it very much depends on where you are in the world and what time of year it is. The wider point here being that of course they don't agree on "basic" matters - neither does everybody within a single country.
- rwmj 9y agoYou need a certain amount of heft to have your way in standards bodies. 500m people in the EU vs 65m in the UK ... Plus global standards are now being derived from EU standards.
- mattmanser 9y agoThat 500 million includes the UK...
- pjc50 9y agoBut there's no representation on the EU standards bodies at all, and realistically there are two kinds of standard manufacturers tend to care about: US (mostly UL) and CE.
- hathathat 9y agoThe EU's standards often just transcribe the standards agreed at a global level, though [1] [1] https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/automotive/legislation/unece_en https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/automotive/legislation/u...
- untog 9y agoOften != Always, though. Losing the ability to affect these European standards is a price to pay, Brexit being one big trade-off after all. But I'm still unclear on what the advantages are that make it worth it.