sec_4_1_2_4__para__4

The procedure to challenge a harmonised standard and its outcome does not affect its existence as a harmonised standard or as a European standard as only the ESOs can make decisions on the revision or withdrawal of their deliverables. In addition to the controls available to the Commission, only this objection procedure gives the European Parliament and the Member States a possibility to control the presumption of conformity i.e. the legal effect, which stems from the publication of the reference in the OJEU. Provided the formal objection is justified, it may only lead to the withdrawal, restriction or prevention of such a publication in the OJEU. In the first two cases, this means that the harmonised standard in question will no longer give presumption of conformity or presumption of conformity with the essential requirements is restricted. In the last case (prevention) it means that the standard does not give presumption of conformity at all.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.