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It provides guidance without having legal status.</div></div></article></div></div></div></div> <div class="ecl-u-mb-2xl"> <a id="paragraph_91"></a> <div class="ecl"><p><strong>Standards are technical specifications defining requirements for products, production processes, services or test-methods. These specifications are voluntary. They are developed by industry and market actors following some basic principles such as consensus, openness, transparency and non-discrimination. 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Actions to make standardisation fit for these new challenges are proposed.</li> <li><a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32012R1025&locale=en">Regulation (EU) 1025/2012</a> on European standardisation strengthens the institutional framework for standardisation and its use by the Commission. 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