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Blue guide Guide to the implementation of directives based on the New Approach and the Global Approach European Commission CGuide to the implementation of directives based on the New Approach and the Global Approach European Commission CThis document is a

Guide to the implementation of directives based on the New Approach and the Global Approach European Commission CGuide to the implementation of directives based on the New Approach and the Global Approach European Commission CThis document is available on the Internet and can be downloaded in all o ?cial EU languages from the Europa server at the following address http europa eu int comm enterprise newapproach newapproach htm A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet It can be accessed through the Europa server http europa eu int Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication Luxembourg O ?ce for O ?cial Publications of the European Communities ISBN - - - ? European Communities Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged Printed in Italy CGuide to the implementation of directives based on the New Approach and the Global Approach FOREWORD The single market is one of the great achievements of our time This economic space where goods services capital and labour can circulate freely provides a foundation for prosperity in the European Union as we move towards the st century The European Union has developed original and innovative instruments to remove the barriers to free circulation of goods Among these the New Approach to product regulation and the Global Approach to conformity assessment take pride of place The common thread between these complementary approaches is that they limit public intervention to what is essential and leave business and industry the greatest possible choice on how to meet their public obligations Since some directives adopted on the basis of the New Approach and the Global Approach have progressively come into force The operation of any innovative system inevitably raises questions A ?rst Guide intended to answer some of these was published in This has now been updated and rewritten on the basis of experience We hope that this Guide will be helpful to those who want to do business in the single market and that it will assist those whose job it is to manage the market place It will be an invaluable aid to the candidate countries of central and eastern Europe in taking over the New Approach and the Global Approach and the directives adopted following them We dare to hope that it will also contribute to better understanding of these methods in other countries and may even lead them to adopt similar principles A Guide can at best only draw out the meaning signi ?cance and practical consequences of the directives to which it refers It cannot replace a legal text or change what the legislator has decided However it can elucidate the legal text by bringing to bear knowledge of the usage of the European Union and the provisions of the European Community Treaty and its derived law including the case law of the European Court of Justice The European Commission is uniquely well placed to do this It has consulted widely in preparing the Guide