Article 10

Member States shall consider as complying with the essential requirements of this Directive applying to them those interoperability constituents which bear the ‘EC’ declaration of conformity or suitability for use. Compliance of an interoperability constituent with the respective essential requirements and, where appropriate, its suitability for use shall be established in relation to the conditions laid down by the corresponding TSI, including any relevant European specifications that may exist. The references to European specifications shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities and mentioned in the respective TSI. When the relevant European specifications are published after adoption of the TSI, they shall be taken into account as soon as the TSIs are revised. Member States shall publish the references to national standards transposing European standards. As regards the period prior to the publication of a TSI, in the absence of any European specifications and without prejudice to Article 20(5), Member States shall notify to the other Member States and the Commission a list of the standards and technical specifications in use in order to implement the essential requirements. This notification shall be made not later than 20 March 2002. Where a European specification is not yet available at the time of adoption of a TSI and compliance with this specification is an essential precondition to guarantee interoperability, the TSI may refer to the most advanced version available of the draft European specification that has to be complied with or that incorporates all or part of that draft.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-29 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.